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Originally Posted by AlexKane
Let's hope they create a royalty free standard for multi-channel audio that translates to the end user's playback configuration as well.
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Opus supports up to 255 channels...
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Originally Posted by BadFrame
the whole 4k push is a marketing campaign to sell the HEVC codec and new hardware capable of viewing it.
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It more than that, in particular it's a response to...
1. the commercial failure of 3D
2. LG Display's commercialization of large-sized OLED
These two factors are largely why you've got 4k, quantum dots, local dimming, HDR, curved*, "S"UHD or whatever and more all making an appearance (some being revived like local dimming) in LCDs only within the last year or two.
Remember, the current market share for LCDs is pretty much split up between LGD, Samsung, and Innolux (and a few Japanese products, like Nintendo's, that are still partial to displays made by Sharp).
Innolux's whole existence is built around manufacturing LCDs while Samsung's LCD products dominate the large sizes and their OLED products, which they've been unable to commercialize at larger sizes, dominates small screen sizes in anything that isn't an Apple product (Apple uses LG panels). Now factor in that LG and Samsung are practically the Korean business equivalent of warring factions combined with the fact that, if everybody stopped buying LCDs, Innolux would be out of business in an instant...
*while curved was originally used on LG's OLED products, LG had and still does have equivalent flat models as well. Samsung by comparison has a considerably more aggressive curve on their products and doesn't even offer flat versions in the highest-end.