Whatever happened to 4K? The rise of “Ultra HD” TV

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Is ars going to review the Odemax 4k distribution service when it launches at sundance ?
and the redray player ?

http://www.red.com/news/red-announces-p ... ith-odemax
http://odemax.com/information.html

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread ... RAY-ODEMAX

They are going to be using the red ray codec, supposedly have had a break through and got it way down on bandwidth 2.5MB a second for streaming 4k video
http://www.redgrabs.com/up/1354328970.jpg


Also in Europe there is a dedicated 4k demo satelite channel that started on tuesday
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases ... 93172.html

I'll wait to see it in person. They've made numerous claims which have not panned out, one of which is that they describe REDCODE as visually lossless (it's not even close).