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Monday, August 15, 2011

4D TV

There are great misconceptions that circulate through the population, consumers in these days on television 4D. With the advent of 3D TV and drive technology for the possibility that television's ability to transmit 3-D movies and TV productions in each house, TV took some steam ahead 4D. There is a small problem with the notion floating around that many consumers mistakenly assume that the four dimensions will be slightlyRevolution. 

What 4D TV is

The company Motorola is one of the leading companies in communications, from satellite to cell phones and almost everything else under the sun that deals with communications. In the nineteen-eighties, about the same time that cable companies and satellite dish networks were breaking out into the mass media culture, they had to deal with many of the same space and transfer issues that early Internet users had to endure.
Basically, when the Internet was still fairly young as a consumer entity, dial-up service was the only way to connect. Slow and frustrating, files had to be quite small in order to transfer over the telephone line, otherwise the connection could be lost or the file would take days to download. Basically, these early cable and satellite broadcasts faced similar limitations. Even cable companies, even though most consumers think the signal transmits over cable lines, actually transmit their original signals via satellite.
With that being said, because the signals are being compressed in order to move across the transmission lines fast enough, they are degraded copies, to some extent. The receiving dish (which is the last dish before the signal is then transmitted to the consumer) unzips the signal and reconstructs that signal. There is a degradation of signal during this process.
4D technology is actually a transmission technology that Motorola has developed that keeps the original broadcast signal intact so that the highest quality signal reaches the consumer, allowing the consumer to take advantage of the high resolution or even 3D television that they are using in their home.

As one can see, the term itself, 4D TV, has created a misunderstanding among the average consumer who has been hearing a great deal about 3D TVs and technology and have jumped to conclusions about what 4D could possibly be. After all, the ‘D’ stands for dimensions, but in this case, it is merely referring to the transmission of the highest quality signal from the source to the destination. For filmmakers, there’s nothing new to worry about, no new technology to learn. Just film your masterpieces and as we move into the future, 4D technology will likely become the norm in signal transmission so that the viewer gets to see precisely the quality images that you intended them to see.

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