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Is 4K the New Standard?

02/28/2014 12:24 PM

TV is sort of like home computing was in the early 90's in that "whatever is hot today" will be old news in 6 months. recently 4 thousand lines of pixels are what marketers are attempting to ram down our throats in an effort to separate us from our dollars. where do you see this topping out?how many TVs does one actually need to buy in a lifetime?
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Re: is 4K the new standard?

02/28/2014 12:46 PM

Top out? It won't...

Like anything... the newest and greatest is only desirable when one is no longer happy with what one currently has. But as to "actually need" a new one, up to each of us to decide.

The analogy to computers in earlier times... I bought or built a new one when the old one no longer met my need.

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Re: is 4K the new standard?

02/28/2014 3:02 PM

How can anybody find fault with a better picture on the tv? Unfortunately the reality is that even though my tv is capable of 1080p and 120mhz, which I rushed to buy when they came out 6 years ago, the cable company does not offer that resolution... the best they do is 1080i and 60mhz...so any better resolution capability for my tv is really just technology for the sake of technology, and is of no real value....My tv's will probably wear out before they ever are resolutionally challenged....(sic)

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Re: is 4K the new standard?

03/01/2014 3:12 AM

How about when you watch Blue Ray or DVDs? Do you see much of a difference then?

Of course, not everyone wants to watch films "Offline"...though I buy secondhand DVDs on ebay, ones to do with various subjects and happenings that I would like a deeper understanding of.

Spiegel TV has issued many DVDs over the years and I bought a great collection for very little money a few months ago from ebay. Really informative.....

Marking as Off Topic.....

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03/03/2014 9:37 AM

The Nex-Gen gaming consoles will use the resolution. In fact, I believe the PS4 and XBoe (and possibly even the PS3) support higher than 1080p resolution.

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02/28/2014 5:55 PM


From back when we strove for High Fidelity.

Flanders and Swann, A Song of Reproduction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_DptPvj7ts

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Re: is 4K the new standard?

02/28/2014 6:22 PM

It's actually already topping out. The sales of home TVs is way down. Broadcast companies, and all the other entertainment companies out there, just spent billions upgrading their studios and electronics for HDTV. The attempt to wedge-in 3D off that technology failed miserably. They are not going to spend billions again so soon for the electronics needed to accommodate the bandwidth a monitor like this needs.

Large high-resolution screens like this are mostly concept demonstrators - like those amazing concept cars that seldom get built. A few of these screens will find niche applications, but the typical joe sixpack has no need for screen like this.

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02/28/2014 6:32 PM

" the typical joe sixpack has no need for screen like this."

Yet he is exactly who will buy such a monitor so that he can watch his football game that is being broadcast in standard definition through his 250 KB/s router link and Pringles can directional antenna that he uses to pirate WiFi off the neighbors half a mile way with.
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02/28/2014 11:00 PM

I like the one to our left.

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03/01/2014 1:09 AM

So long as I can watch Beverly Hill Billies episodes on Youtube I'm happy with that.

Ellie May Clampet still looks good in 1960s BW and only 500 or so lines of definition.

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03/01/2014 3:28 AM

She doesn't look bad even fairly recently......I have no idea exactly how old she is, so I go now and check! I saw her on a show a year or two back.

She's 80 years old.......wow!

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03/01/2014 8:24 AM

Personally, I couldn't care less. As a matter of fact, I find all the audio/video technology annoying because my hubby is an engineer and the t.v. in the basement (projection), for example, along with all of the components, requires a degree in engineering to operate. I tell him that all the remotes and controls are akin to the control panel of a 747! I have no desire to take a course in T.V./Stereo watching/listening. Even the t.v. upstairs is annoying because the picture size has to be changed all the time or the bottom gets cut off if you aren't paying attention to whether it's in "H.D". Once I start watching a program, to be honest, the last thing I'm thinking about is whether it is 1080P or whatever! I'm old enough to remember black and white t.v. How did we ever survive back then, lol? The biggest improvement would be to get rid of the ridiculous number of commercials or invent a box that can skip them automatically. My T.W.C. cable box fast forward and rewind never works right either. Between the annoying complexity of the equipment and the stupidity of most programming, I find myself watching less and less t.v.
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03/02/2014 12:14 PM

Back when cable, then satellite, TV came out, I thought that the idea was that if you paid for the reception, you could avoid the ads... How wrong I was!!!

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03/02/2014 1:23 PM

I watch TV almost never live except for the news, I record it and watch it later.....and fast fwd over the Ads....

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03/02/2014 8:30 PM

Whenever I watch TV, I'm either at someone else's house, or my wife has just said "Look at this..."

I get virtually all my news on the computer, and I've got enough to do that I don't meed entertainment.

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03/01/2014 8:45 AM

So many pixels, so few good programs!

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Re: is 4K the new standard?

03/03/2014 9:43 AM

Hear, hear!

Now, there's an idea to use all that resolution: put all the good programs on the screen AT THE SAME TIME, each using up the 'real estate' of their native resolution. Obviously this would be an 'art project'/'social commentary' piece, not an actual viable cable channel, but still, it'd be cool.

Hopefully, after all the good shows are on, we won't have half the screen still black, that'd be embarrassing..

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