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O.k, so a few minutes ago I was surfing Youtube, when I stumbled across this unboxing video of Sony's new 4k Ultra HD television. I searched the forum and nothing similar came up, so I though I would start a thread about 4k TV's.
So, do any of you have one? Do you see yourself getting one anytime soon? Will they be a successful piece of hardware or just another flop? What about the pricing - how long will it take for them to come to a reasonable price (Sony's model starts at $4999 for a 55" and go on to more ridiculous prices as size increases? Is the hardware much different to what we experience at the moment for those fortunate enough to experience 4k?

Please discuss.👍

Edit: Unboxing video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9JKDzusKBM


 
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1. Too expensive at the moment and 2. Lack of content and games for 4K HD. I believe it will be a great feature in TV's and computer monitors in about 5-10 years. It will be like the transition of SD TV to HDTV. It will take time until the TV's and the hardware driving that 4K resolution is affordable by the middle class.
 
I saw an ad for the Sony from Best Buy and just wondered what was up.

Same ol' chicken-and-egg thing, don't need 4K material because there are no sets to view it, and don't need 4K sets because there's no media.

Getting a 4K-capable set right now might be like the folks who got the first HD-capable sets. You know, the ones that had analog component inputs, maybe DVI inputs, because HDMI didn't exist yet.

So can I tie 4 PS3s together and play GT5 (or 6) in 4K, like Sony did in their demos last fall?
 
It is way too early to invest in 4K TVs, but they are interesting. I feel that having a good 4K scaler will be very important. I've heard that with excellent processing 1080p content can look amazing upscaled to 4k, but of course you'd want to make sure the processing doesn't add annoying artifacts either. And to actually take advantage of an 8 megapixel screen you'd either need it to be much bigger or you'll need to be seated much closer.

There's not much 4K content available anyway. To me the most interesting 4K source is a gaming PC, but as things stand right now, (very expensive) PC hardware still has a long way to go to provide consistent performance at that resolution. You'd need something like tri-SLI GTX 780s to keep most of the eye candy enabled at frame rates above 30fps. Not that matters yet as we'll need to wait for HDMI 2.0 adoption. Current HDMI implementations limit you to 30Hz refresh at 4K resolution and it looks like multiplexed DVI isn't so simple either.

Sources:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-vs-the-ultimate-gaming-pc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#Version_2.0
 

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