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
Maybe I'm missing something here, but what's the point of 1080p video on a 3" or 4" screen?
There is no point. The only point is that people buy into the marketing hype that is 1080p, and think that anything less is obsolete. Have you ever heard a friend/relative brag about their new 32" 1080p TV they have, but yet, have no HD sources hooked up to it? Let alone no blu-ray for them. Yeah, its those kinds of people that want crap like 1080p on a 3" screen.
You would have to hold a 4" screen less than 1" from your eye to get the full 1080p effect. Of course, your eye can't focus at that distance, so it's completely useless.