Believe it or not, this is far from the
first we've heard of
bringing high-def video to cellphones, and it's not even the first application to
dabble in mobile 1080p. Still, we'll take all the innovation we can get in this space, and when the
real Touch HD ever arrives, we'll be ready and waiting with Full HD capabilities. Announced at ISSCC 2009 in San Francisco, Renesas Technology is showing off an application processor that enables handsets to process 1,920 x 1,080 resolution video at 30 frames-per-second; the processor's core has a maximum operating frequency of 500MHz and supports MPEG-4 AVC / H.264, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video formats. There's no telling when the 6.4- x 6.5-millimeter chip will be available en masse, but we need the HTCs of the world to get us a 1080p phone and a retina implant or two to read 0.2-size fonts before it even matters.
posted Dec 1st 2008 7:35PM
Perhaps this will push over into something more in demand, such as mobile gaming.
On my 40" LCD TV I enjoy 720p quite a bit and would be interested in seeing a mobile screen with a pixel density that would be able to show the detail in a 1080p video clip.
Agreed would be nice to see the next psp in real high def.
i'm running a plasma 42 @ 720p. Don't really notice a difference between it and 1080p from 8' away, but it's always in the back of my head that i don't have the "best". Only thing that really bothers me is going from my 360 to my Wii on the thing, the lack of high def output from the Wii is pretty annoying.
Yes i know this has nothing to do with cell phones.
Given the small screen sizes, I think there wouldn't be any visual difference between 720p and 1080p on a 3" or 3.5" screen, unless you've got your magnifying glass out. For that matter, I would bet casual observers wouldn't be able to spot the difference between a DVD (720 x 480 or 720 x 512 for NTSC/PAL respectively) and a 720P movie on those screen.
My Touch Diamond has 640 x 480 on a 2.8" screen, and I watch the occasional downloaded VGA-rez video and they look eye-popping sharp on that screen. Human eyeballs just don't have the acuity (e.g., resolution) to resolve details beyond a certain point.
Now, if a super-smart-phone cum mobile computer (which they're all morphing into anyway) has mini-HDMI or viewport "out" ports, so we can have our cake.. err... computer with us, then plug it into a monster 50" 1080p screen for watching movies, all the better, man!
Oh - @Rudolphe - your 1080p still isn't the "best", check out Panasonic's 150" behemoth plasma, with "Super HD" (3840 x 2160) rez. Not that any of us can afford one, but just sayin'