But H.264 or x.264 codec is a protocol that´s part of MPEG 4.

BBC have just tested NHK Super-Hi vision but when Super Hi-vison will not be start in Japan before 2015 it will not be started by BBC before that.

BBC tests of NHK Super Hi-vison is just Si-Fi.

Yes doing actual 4K2K broadcasts would be a good start. I think that logically they should be able to real-time compress Quad-HD to 4 times 1080p bitrate, and logically that can be done with as little as 24mbitps over a normal broadband connection, maybe 36mbitps or 48mbitps is better. But still, I think that is quite manageable. The BBC test you linked to is testing 16x 1080p, so that is even more insane of course. But I think they should start doing at least 4x 1080p for now. But even if that broadcast cannot be sent reliably over the Internet and multi-cast IPTV providers around the world, which I think it easily could, even broadcasting 1080p or 1080i and upscaling that on a Quad-HD screen looks awesome and looks better than displayed on a regular 1080p HDTV, although this whole upscaling stuff sounds like fake magic marketing, it might actually work in a way so quality might look 25% better than 1080p or something like that. That’s still worth it.

actually the UK HD broadcasts are 1440x1080i over DVB-T2, DVB-S(2) and DVB-C AVC/H.264/AAC (not mpeg4 as that implies the original mpeg 4 aka Divx/xvid that no broadcaster uses AFAIK)

Still Quad-HD 4K2K HDTVs look better than whatever 3D or whatever else they want to sell to people. 4K2K costs the same to make if the processor is mass produced.

To Summer Olympic Games in London in July-August 2012 it will not be any new TV-standard in europe than todays HDTV with 720p broadcast by MPEG 4.

But when Samsung start making flexible displays during 2012 they will use even graphene for the TFT in backplane of the Amoled flexible displays because this Amoled displays will be made of plastic.

If yout want to make 100% transparent displays that can be partially transparent and be flexible you must use a transparent material for the TFT in backplane of the display and graphene is both transparent and have significantly better conductivity than other materials.

This all sounds awesome, but if I understand it correctly, the graphene is for the touch screen layer only, and works just as well for plastic based flexible undestructible LCD and E Ink screens also. 3M for example who is an investor in Pixel Qi LCD technology published this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCZz4jFok_o

I would like them to release 4K2K resolution 55″ HDTVs for below $2000 before July 2012, that I think should be their priority. More than likely still LCD type for a long time simply because of the price. That should also be the priority for Sony, LG, Philips, Panasonic and Apple.

Konstantin Novoselov says in end of this video about Can graphene be produced?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgf16VFH16o&feature=relmfu
This video with Nobel Prize in physics 2010 to Andre Gein and Konstantin Novoselov,
where Konstantin Novoselov says that Samsung will start to make capacitive displays
with graphene instead of ITO as conductive material in 2012.

Samsung will also start to make flexible Amoled displays with graphene as material for the TFT
in the backplane of the Amoled displays for Smartphone as this article tell.
http://thecoolgadgets.com/galaxy-skin-samsung-flexible-amoled-smartphone-coming-second-quarter-2012/

Because of graphene low electric conductivity,strengthnes and flexiblity graphene is suitable
as conductive material instead of todays ITO=Indium-Tenn-Oxide that increases in price more and more because ITO is used in both capacitive displays, LED and in silicon solar sells.

Graphene is also 99% transparent and in capacitive displays people want the conductive lattice shall be transparent.

Graphene will soon boom in all kinds of capacitive displays, now when some different techs have been developed for making capacitive displays with graphene lattice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-P6_BMsHSw
As this professor at Rice University tell in this video in 2:38min.

And in June or in the beginning of July 2012 Samsung will release 55″ Amoled TV-displays when Olympic Games 2012 in London will be opend at 27th of July.

thanks…

BTW  Jem Davies did a nice blog 4 weeks ago
TechCon 2011 – the ARM Mali GPU joined-up story is clear
http://blogs.arm.com/multimedia/620-techcon-2011-the-arm-mali-gpu-joined-up-story-is-clear/

interesting read, ” Full Profile OpenCL” etc

and OC 
“For some light relief, here’s a video interview of Ian Smythe and I which was taken at ARM TechCon”

why do they always look scared when you turn up 🙂

You can see my latest interview with Freescale about their quad-core here: http://138.2.152.197/2011/10/28/freescale-i-mx6-quad-core-at-arm-techcon-2011/

come to that Charbax, iv been wondering that happened to the freescale quad core retail products not appearing this year as they said it would, any news on that ?

According to Anandtech and Arstechnica, the Exynos 5250 uses Mali-T604, that’s what they wrote, one saying it’s in the Samsung roadmap http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/11/arm-touts-playstation-3-power-in-a-mobile-gpu.ars and http://www.dailytech.com/ARMs+New+GPUs+to+Step+up+Mobile+War+With+NVIDIA+Imagination+Tech/article23247.htm