4K

[Muse]

I was in Costco the other day and had my first look at 4K, all demo stuff on all sizes of flat panel "TV's" ... Myself, I have an Epson 8700U 1080p projector. I have bought a few Blu-ray disks, have a few hundred DVD's and get most of my content from the local library free, all DVD's. AFAIK, the Berkeley Public Library still don't acquire Blu-ray, much less 4K. I have an HDTV PCI computer card system with its software to enable me to watch (DVR) what I think is basically 720p HDTV. I do this for free, getting my signal by way of rooftop antenna.

So, my question is what is the state of 4K content? Is it being broadcast? I assume so or else they couldn't be marketing these 4K "TV's" I suppose.

I did see something about 4K streaming. I did a tiny bit of HD streaming when I had a trial Amazon Prime account a few months ago. I suppose 4K streaming could be great, however obviously it would take a lot of bandwidth and I have seen a lot of articles in the newspapers about bandwidth wars.

I don't recall seeing anything anywhere about 4K movies on disk. I assume there are, but I haven't seen them mentioned at Amazon, so maybe not. What is the state of things and where are they heading? Is there going to be yet another video revolution when they go to 16K?

 

[sdifox]

not ready. They are not going to do Olympics 2016 in 4k, but World Cup will be. UHD BluRay just announced by Samsung, Netflix and amazon prime has some show in 4k. some limited offering from cable companies. Direct tv starting to launch 4k birds.

 

[MongGrel]

Personally, I wouldn't go anywhere near 4K atm.

Just my two cents.

 

[WormTechs]

4K is too far away from me. My computer is not powerful enough to play a 4k video.

 

[JackBurton]

I'll probably wait another 5 years for 4K. Doesn't really excite me.

 

[Muse]

4K is too far away from me. My computer is not powerful enough to play a 4k video.

Neither is mine. My main HDTV computer wouldn't turn on, smelled of burning electronics a month or so ago. Have to suss out the problem, meantime I'm using my previous midtower, which has even less power, of course. Dang thing is running Windows 2000 Professional! However, it's doing a better job displaying broadcast HDTV than my main box (no lip synch issues ).

I'm nowhere new even thinking about buying 4K. But seeing all those 4K flat panels at Costco made me wonder if I am not falling behind the curve, missing out. Obviously, it's early in the 4K game. Falling prices, content, lots of things will be happening. Actually, I'm pretty OK with 720p HDTV, and the improvement of Blu-ray over DVD is not enough to entice me to buy a bunch of Blu-ray disks rather than check out DVD's from the library. To me, DVD/Video-cassette >> Blu-Ray/DVD.