LG's 4K phone upscaling squeezes Ultra HD from your mobile, wirelessly (video)
The
new upscaling system outputs a 4K feed to your TV, letting you play
mobile games or watch films at an eye-watering high resolution, from
your phone.
BARCELONA, Spain--LG is showing off a new smartphone system, that transforms your smartphone into a 4K media hub.
The South Korean company is calling the new platform the "world's
first wireless Ultra HD transmission technology." If you've got a game
or video playing on your mobile in HD, the new platform will upscale the
feed to a 4K resolution, before beaming it out wirelessly to another
device.
In this situation that second device was an LG 4K television, acting
as a simple monitor for the 4K feed that the phone was pumping out.
We played with Epic Citadel, a graphically intensive tech demo
that -- in this case -- was running on one of LG's Optimus G
smartphones. The process of upscaling the feed to 4K is an intensive
one, and the phone felt very warm when we touched it, but nevertheless
the Optimus G's quad-core processor was handling the task with relative
ease.
(Credit:
Luke Westaway/CNET)
Games ran with a little judder, but as this technology is still
months away from being released I'm prepared to withhold judgement for
now. I was told the proprietary system would be cropping up in
smartphones at the start of next year, or possibly the end of 2013.
It seems that tech companies want to control your living room by turning your smartphone into a portable media centre.
For me, the system demonstrates how powerful smartphone processors
have become in just a few short years. If the Optimus G can handle it,
I've no doubt that other mobiles emerging in the next year or two will
be equally capable.
What do you think of 4K? Let me know in the comments below, and be sure to examine the rest of our coverage from Mobile World Congress.
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