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Netyaroze on 17 May 2013
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Soundwave said:

I think people are also generally done with discs.

Streaming is taking over or buying/renting movies off their cable box.

With Blu-Ray I re-bought a lot of my favorite movies to have them in HD, but with 4K, I'm not triple dipping for the same movies in moderately better looking format. Enough's enough, and I'm a huge movie buff, but I barely watch all the Blu-Ray movies I have as is and have dramatically stopped buying new movies because I know I can access them on Netflix or my cable service.

And streaming is going to be 720p/1080p for a long, long time IMO, same with cable service.

I don't think there will be a mainstream game console that runs actual 4K games any time before 2020 either. Playstation 5 is a long ways away. So good luck waiting for that unless you are a PC gamer willing to spend $2000+ on a PC rig and then hook that up to your TV.

Generally too I think people are getting sick of TV manufacturers telling them they have to switch to something new every few years too. I just don't think there's a big apetite here for this. If it's something you can slap into a $1000 LCD set almost like a bonus, great, but otherwise I don't think most people really give a rats arse. From what I saw it's just not enough of a "wow" factor the first time you see it.

TV manufacturers offer options for people that can afford it and care. You most certainly don't have to get a 4k TV Set right now. You are not in the market yet and nobody tells you what to do, so no reason to be upset about it. 4k will catch on its always like that before something new comes. Its an option and it will be a standard in the future. 1080p had no wow factor over 720p either so I don't see your point. Its a noticeable improvment thats enough.