I'd be very leery about buying a 4K TV right now. It'd be like buying the first generation 1080i Plasma TVs with High Def analog component inputs, then finding out that all content went to digital HDMI with encrypted HDCP and your bleeding edge 1st gen TV doesn't have the interface.
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To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2013 7:58 PM Subject: [opendtv] 4K TVs affordable already
Went to Best Buy last night to see the 4K TVs. They had some from Sony and Samsung on display (Magnolia section of the store). If anyone thought that these 4K TVs were some sort of niche product, think again.Even though Sony is traditionally overpriced, they had a relatively big 55" 4K TV available for $2999. Considering that it took HDTVs several years to become that affordable, and especially so for such a large format, I thought this was rather amazing. No doubt, they will be the new normal in no time.Seems a bit premature perhaps, since HDMI 1.4 can't do 4K at 60p, and since H.265 isn't deployed yet I don't think, but the images they were showing on these 4K screens were amazing. I'd say up to the quality you'd expect from a projected 35mm Kodachrome slide. Even standing up close to the screen, no visible pixels and a very nice color gamut.The salesman claimed that Netflix would start transmitting 4K this year. Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org- By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.
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