Well of course the TV folks want to sell new improved devices, so they always push the New & Improved thing.
My point is that when 1080P devices first came on the scene, they were significant more expensive than 720p devices , which had already been around for some time and thus were cheaper, and could render that 720P content you describe just fine. So that "why would consumers buy it?" scenario existed then as well.... finding actual 1080p content was difficult (even via ATSC). The leapfrog of content vs. device continues... Today, however, with the convergence of TV & monitor, as well as things like YouTube and NetFlix moving toward supporting such content, I'd suspect we'll see those avenues first this time. -sc PS- Off Topic, a bit... but hey, I did say "Monitor"! From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Micheal Espinola Jr Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 7:49 PM To: ntsysadm Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: move hdd with windows 7 on it But there was content that was better than standard def available, and there was hardware available (DVD players) that could upscale into 720ish (HD) territory. I'm not knocking 4K, but I think there is a difference between then and now in terms of where the industry is at, and whats available for actually using the new tech. The 4K push by TV manufacturers seems premature imho. -- Espi On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: The same was true of 1080p for some time. 4K delivery with 10-15Mbps is a reality. -sc From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Micheal Espinola Jr Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 4:37 PM To: ntsysadm Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: move hdd with windows 7 on it The problem being that the content does exist at any reasonable scale. Not even web scale, although thats what Samsung's big push is. I hope your bandwidth is up to the challenge. -- Espi On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: >> Although most of my confusion still lays on the early adopters of >> 4K. Even people in the vfx world here in LA dont understand why >> consumers would buy it [yet] - and these are people that work >> with it professionally. > > I've seen it and I'm a believer. You have a projection home theater in your basement, complete with popcorn machine. You may be slightly outside the typical definition of "consumer". ;-) -- Ben
