...Japanese scientists come around to tell you your HDTV isn't big enough.

The Japanese government has been funding research into new 33 megapixel, or "Super Fun Joy Vision," TVs. See left for a comparison of how this future screen stacks up with your puny monitor.

No matter that they haven't developed a camera to capture such high-res, nor a device to decode a 24Gbps stream. The Japanese are pouring their millions of yuan into this project to see if they can make something viable by 2015 (or about when Marty MacFly will be coming back to the future with Doc Brown to save his future son).

What? You think a screen capable of airing 7680 x 4320 moving images is beyond superfluous? What kind of anti-capitalist neo-Luddite are you? Why don't you go join an Amish cult? (Of course I'm still watching TV on a 1986 Magnavox and sending my blogs via carrier pigeon.)

Skeptics can take a look at this research to get an idea of how far they'd have to be from such a huge TV for it to be worthwhile. So start booking seats to watch Superbowl XLIX from the other side of the Grand Canyon! Add infinite contrast ratio to that TV and the Bills might as well be right in front of you!

Labels: convergence, technology