Nick Colsey: The thing about the TV is when a consumer goes out to buy a new TV, the first thing that's on their mind, the top of the list is better picture quality. As screen sizes get larger and larger, the average is around 50 inches, but many TVs sold at 65 - 75 inches now, that kind of size you really need the 4K resolution to get that better picture quality. If you're upgrading from a smaller TV to a larger and just sticking with HD resolution, the pixels are going to be more spaced out. The picture quality just isn't going to look as good, so 4K really is a natural progression.

Troy Dreier: Did you say 15 percent of homes in the US now have them?

Nick Colsey: By the end of this year.

Troy Dreier: By the end of this year and what percent can stream? Isn't 15 megs the standard?

Nick Colsey: To the home you need about 25 megs to stream 4K, but an increasing number of homes have that. From an infrastructure perspective, about half of all the homes in the UK can get that speed, whether they subscribe to it or not is a different matter. I think once you've gone out and invested a 4K TV adding a little extra bandwidth to your monthly access program is a small price to pay. That's going to get you the bandwidth that you need. In most cases the homes that are buying 4K TVs are also the homes that have the best bandwidth.

http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/15-of-US-Homes-Will-Have-4K-TV-by-End-of-Year-Says-Sony-Video-111408.aspx

4K looks to be growing it's good to see Sony and MS are getting on board. Hopefully Nintendo Follows the same route.    

Pricing is getting better, so more and more people will be picking them up soon.

The newer 4k television picture quality is amazing. I was on the fence but ended up snagging a new 65 inch Samsung UHD. The upscaling and quality of this television puts a smile on my face each time I am gaming or watching movies.

4k TV's now are half the price HD TV's were back in 2006. They're affordable for most and dropping in price quickly, the main obstacle is having enough room to get the benefit from it, the sofa in my living room is about 4 meters away from my TV. Buying a TV too small you wouldn't be able to tell the difference, buying a TV too large would either look stupid or just not fit.

Again in my Bedroom, I sit about 2.5 meters away from the TV, I could fit a 42 inch in their but I doubt at that distance and size there's much of a difference...

That isn't too shabby... enough market, and people that bought 4K may well have money for a PS4Neo... now let's see the use they do of it.

65" (all the space I could muster) and 2m away, it's fantastic on the demo content, unfortunatelly not much content in Brazil... but even HD looks incredible on it, probably a very good upscaller there.

Someone's optimistic. All we know that less than 1% of those TVs will be from Sony^^

I am ready since a year and half ago when I found this cheap model at $900. http://4k.com/tv/a-review-of-the-samsung-un55hu6840-55-inch-4k-ultra-hd-60hz-smart-led-tv/

How big is the difference from 1080p?

Its quite a big jump, not as much as it was from old televisions to full hd, but I would say half of that, the sharpness is just amazing, any console supporting real 4K will be a massive seller for sure, its what this generation missed something that truely feels "new" and "exciting" well I guess playstation VR also has that :)

4K tvs are still 50% more expensive here than their equivalent 1080p size, and that doesn't get you the full benefit of HDR, just the resolution boost. Buy a cheap 4k tv now and you have the equivalent of a 720p panel in 2006.
Plus tv here is still 7-8 mbps mpeg2 720p/1080i, with 1 experimental 4k channel (for some sports broadcasts) Streaming is the better option, yet in a household with everyone using the internet you'll need a lot more bandwidth to get stable 4K or tell the other people to stay off the internet :)

If you can, wait for UHD premium sets to come down in price. Those are still not full HDR capable (rated at >= 90% of DCI-P3) yet the new 4K blu-ray standard aims for those specs. HDR will make the real difference in the beginning as games can more easily output 10 bit color (HDR rendering is already a decade old) than render in native 4K. Upscaled to 4K with HDR output will happen before native 4K.