Although the demand for 8K projectors isn’t exactly blowing up, it’s useful for specialty stuff (digital dome projectors, scientific stuff, other applications you don’t think about) and for scrubbing through portions of your 28K footage. Evans & Sutherland was unimpressed with current projection solutions, however, and decided it’d be better to make a totally awesome laser projector that does 8K and even allows for splitting into 4K 3D footage.
Nobody is distributing 4K movies yet (2K, or 1080p is just becoming a real standard), so 8K is a long ways off. But that doesn’t mean this thing isn’t a useful piece of kit. The laser projection method avoids the “gapped pixels” in other projection methods, which do indeed have blank areas at perfect focus. Sure, they’re barely perceptible, but visually demanding consumers will enjoy the knowledge that their new projector uses “a moving column of light” instead of those other, more vulgar solutions.
It’s a little sketchy that it’s only available in render form right now, but I’m sure they’ll fix that.
[via Gizmodo]
I’m sure it’ll be around $25,000 at least. But it would be perfect for showing off RED footage and or extremely hi-res projections for concerts and stuff.
I was just helping shoot some Red stuff this weekend, it’s frustrating to know there’s so much detail and be unable to show it.
I’m waiting patiently for the scarlet. I cannot wait for that to come out. My credit is going to go out of this world but it’ll be totally worth it.
I know, if I’m flush when that thing comes out I might not be able to control myself…
As long as they don’t scrap the whole line and then release new “LOOK WHAT WE’RE DOING” campaigns with insane specs and then move the date I will be happy and purchasing my 5k scarlet to make into a DSLR.