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BUTCH1 said:
I would probably agree with your reasoning but for the fact I saw one. Stop buy a BB or HH Gregg and see one of these, it's not a gimmick, I never thought ANY TV could be so immersive, go take a look and post back your experience.
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Trust me, I've seen them in person, and I find them no more immersive than a comparably sized flatscreen HDTV at the same resolution. Don't get me wrong, a 100+ inch 4K HDTV looks astonishing in person, but the curved screen has literally nothing to do with that. Best Buy likes to set up little viewing areas for the super-high-end stuff so it looks as good as it possibly can. But, functionally, there really isn't a difference to the picture quality of Samsung's high-end flat TV versus their high-end curved TV, yet the "curve" adds a minimum of $500 to the price. It's a marketing gimmick, same as 3D, that draws you in as something new and exciting and goes away in a few years when people realize that it can actually detract from the viewing experience.
 
bearxor said:
Are you agreeing or disagreeing with me?

Because that's essentially what I said.
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i'm just stating that at the size of 100" it's still completely pointless. you would need it to be MUCH larger than that to be immersive from a normal viewing distance.

so yeah, agreeing.
 
panasonic ptae8000u projector + 110 inch screen and a glorious image <2% the cost of this beast.
 
curved tv's came about from a defect in the manufacturing of flat panels which caused some to warp. they decided to sell them to people to recoup costs. a curved screen is very nice if it goes into your peripheral vision (IMAX) otherwise it is a waste and you are giving up viewing angle of the screen.

(from a source in the know)
 
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poofyhairguy said:
And these newer forms of Blu Ray disks will use a newer form of handshake DRM that NO current 4k TV supports. So I don't know how that point supports a current TV purchase.

Seriously, buying a 4K tv now is like buying a HDTV way back when without HDMI ports- you are gonna get screwed.
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That's already here, mostly. They needed HMDI 2.0. Now 5K at 60fps (basically 21:9 at 4K's vertical resolution), 3D 4K at more than 30fps, and other situations will likely need another bump. Much, much, much less of a screwjob than when they implemented the digital flags of HDCP, as this is pretty much a purely technical issue (the cable doesn't have the bandwidth to provide those situations).

dougp said:
Actually, technically people have 2k - they'd be doubling. 4k is only 2160 on the height side, but I doubt they want to call it 2160p, only hinting at a doubling of pixels. Going from 1080p to 4k sounds much higher than going from 1080p to 2160p. Hell, most consumer stuff doesn't get the full 4k ...
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No they don't, 1080p is actually roughly 2K. I think they should have called it 4X (since it's 4 times the pixels of 1080p, since pixels are doubled in both axis), but they decided to start piggybacking onto the non-consumer facing standards (which have used the rough horizontal pixel count instead of vertical like the consumer facing ones have tended to). It's not too bad though as it's sorta making things more cohesive. All the different standards (and non-standards) are a clusterfuck though and yes there are multiple "4K" resolutions.
 
netflix has 4k content. they charge extra for it. amazon is going to add 4k content. no upcharge.

you can record 4k on the new gopros. so if you like recording track/pow/surf etc sessions you got some more 4k content right there.

still too soon for me though.
 
Several have mentioned that if streaming/electronic standards change you are screwed, but Samsung 4K TV's are upgradeable with the one connect box. If HDMI 2.2, display port for TV, etc. comes out in 2 years you can buy a new box with the latest I/O ports, electronics and software package to bring your TV up to date. The curve works well on the 78" and up. The stupid rule of thumb about viewing distances do not even apply to 4K because the pixels are so small you can get up to within a couple of feet and not see the pixels.
 
lol just noticed the questions and answers about the tv.

Is it possile to purchase an empty box that the TV would come in? I'd like my neighbors to see it sitting out with the trash on December 26!
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madoka said:
Does anyone else fantasize about one day having a screen so big that you're able to play shooting games with life sized opponents?
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I tried that on a 10ft screen and got slaughtered so quickly it's not even fun anymore. You developed tunnel vision and your opponents moved too quickly.
 
hilarious questions and answers:

Does the curvature of the tv match my field of vision? I don't want to be able to see my wife or children. 18 days ago

Trust me mate, as soon as the missus sees the receipt you won't be seeing her or the kids again...
 
Genx87 said:
I think 4K could come sooner than people expect. As our internet speeds increase 4K becomes more feasible.
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Yeah, but we still have some fairly ludicrous bandwidth caps. According to Sony, a 4K movie runs about 50GB (and I'm assuming that's with fairly aggressive compression such as you might find from a streaming service). People would be running up against their bandwidth cap halfway through their Lord of the Rings marathon.
 
purbeast0 said:
lolwut?

we are not even CLOSE to streaming bluray quality yet, let alone 4k.
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Yeah this. Not to mention caps are seemingly becoming more commonplace which would definitely limit people in streaming stuff in 1080P, nevermind 4K.

KT
 
BoberFett said:
This. Curved only makes sense if you are one person sitting at the exact center of the circle. Get a few people on a couch and flat makes sense. What's with this new curved TV stupidity?
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I checked out some curved TV's the other day in-store. It actually wasn't bad - you could sit off to the side without any problems. For some reason I kind of liked it, but other than it looking cool physically, I can't think of a reason to really buy one over a flat one, especially since you can just hang the flat one on your wall.

Also, ALL of the curved TV's had really bad picture quality. Hard to explain, but a bit grainy & pixely, like they were TN panels instead of IPS panels. The color viewing angles were good, but it just had this...slop to the picture. Like on most Android phones, when you zoom in a picture and it has that weird pixel pattern on background blur. It was not a very high-quality image, even on the really expensive curved sets, so that was disappointing, especially since it was next to a high-end Sony 4K flatscreen that was amazing even from a foot away.
 
Jadow said:
panasonic ptae8000u projector + 110 inch screen and a glorious image <2% the cost of this beast.
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I recently set up a Benq W1070 and painted a neutral gray screen on the wall. Beautiful, 110", and ~0.5% the cost of this.
 
Woooooooooooooooooosh. I think two people in this entire thread got it. Fucking ATOT.

OP: Thanks. That was indeed funny.
 
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