Price: $1,450
Website: red.com
You've spent E20K on a 4K TV the size of a
garage door, but there's chuff all to watch? Camera maker RED has a solution,
you poor, unfortunate thing...
Price aside, the main problem with 4K is
that there's not much content for it. The Redray's secret weapon is RED’s 4K
video download service Odemax, which starts delivering 4K films in March.
There's no word yet on who's signed up, but most should be RED camera users Peter
Jackson or David Fincher, for example.
You've
spent E20K on a 4K TV the size of a garage door, but there's chuff all to
watch?
The Redray downloads the films you buy from
Odemax to its 1TB hard drive (enough for about 100 hours of 4K, says RED) and will
whack out 4K video at 60fps. You're not restricted to Odemax content, mind
it'll also play from SD cards and USB drives, and upscale 720p or 1080p videos
from those sources.
The
Redray downloads the films you buy from Odemax to its 1TB hard drive (enough
for about 100 hours of 4K, says RED) and will whack out 4K video at 60fps.
No matter how beefy your PVR, the beefy
Redray is going to make it feel distinctly inadequate: it's a 2.7kg, aluminum-shelled
monster with a big red eye and more ports than Greece. No fewer than six HDMI
sockets are included, and it can output 4K video via one HDMI 1.4 or four HDMI
1.3 cables depending on your TV's connections.
Obviously if you can afford one of these
and a 4K TV you won't have your butler install anything less than a
frighteningly loud, frighteningly expensive home cinema system. Just as well
the Redray supports 24-bit, 7.1 surround sound.
No
fewer than six HDMI sockets are included, and it can output 4K video via one HDMI
1.4 or four HDMI 1.3 cables depending on your TV's connections.
Have you put (most of) your money into a 3D
TV instead? No problem - the Redray also supports high-frame rate 3D. That
means that unlike a lot of 3D PVRs and Blu-ray players, it will push out 1080p
3D video at 48 or 60fps.Thoughyou might have to take it round Peter Jackson's
gaff for it to be useful.
Max resolution: 4096x2160
Supported video formats: RED (4K), MP4 (1 D80p, 720p]
Frame rates:
24, 25, 30, 48, 50, 60fps
Storage: 1T8
Connectivity: HDMI 1.4 (x4) (Program), HDMI 1.3) x2 (Preview and Audio), SD,
USB2.0, eSATA, up to 7.1 channel LPEM, 24-bit 48 Khz
Alternatively...
Sony BDP-S790
Price: $300
Website: sony.com
Sony
BDP-S790
Chances are the Redray is the sort of thing
you can't afford yet but might be able to in a few years. But the S790 can be
yours now, and up scales any Blu-ray to 4K for the benefit of that TV you also
can't afford.
