Red Projector

[roxics]

Hey Jim,
Since you're introducing a revolutioning new 4K camera, any chance you'll compliment it with a revolutionary 4K projector to display it?

By the way this forum should be the called the Red Light District, because this camera is gonna be damn sexy.

[Jarred Land]

i like the red light district thing :)

[Jack_Felis]

I too wondered about this. What with the rumored 4K-capable Apple Cinema Display and all you'd expect there to be a projector system too.

Well, the only 4K projectors I know of are the high-end Sony ones here:
http://bssc.sel.sony.com/BroadcastandBusiness/DisplaySubCategory?m=10007&p=12&sp=96

Good luck coming up with the $100,000 for that one! :)

Hopefully RED has some option.

[Stephen W]

I'd be surprised if the rumours of a 4k display are true. At present there isn't anything available on that scale (the nearest seems to be this new Quad-HD monitor which isn't 4k). Think about it, to display a 4520 x 2540 image on an LCD display you'd essentially need the equivalent of 3 Apple 30" HD monitors tipped on their side and stuck together. Which'd give you a monitor that was about 5ft wide (and very heavy). So unless there's some major advancement that Apple are about to unleash on us (such as OLED or such-like) I think it's pretty unlikely, especially as I believe Apple don't manufacture their own displays.

[Jarred Land]

I dont think they need to offer a "consumer" oriented 4k display product.. because lets get real, the majority of people shooting the Red wont be at 4k, but 2k. Its just too hard for the little guy to work with 4k footage.. let alone display it. But its sure nice to know its there... talk about a switch of issues.. most people have never had the problem where they have too much resolution coming from a camera :)

[androbot2084]

Actually Viewsonic makes a 23 inch 9 megapixel LCD monitor that is almost 4k and sells for around $2000. It has dual DVI inputs. The Olympus high fidelity video camera that is almost 4k uses 8 conventional XGA projectors with a row of four on top and four on the bottom. This set up would cost $6400 just for the projectors. The Olympus camera uses 4 each of 2/3 inch CCD's with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 for a total resolution of 3840 x 2160 at 30 frames per secound. 4k consumer big screens will probably retail for about 10-20 grand.

[Jarred Land]

Give it 2 or 3 years and there will be desktop LCD's with 4k pixels.. its just inevitable. The 4K from the Red is years ahead of its time... which is a very, very good thing. I can see alot of very creative demonstrations using this camera with the 4k sony projector at "wow" events.