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$1299 Seiki UHDTV 50" SE50UY04 - Bought it today

When it comes to music, there's the Studio Master and then there's the Media Master. The former is always - barring serious screw-ups or just bad juju - a high-quality recording. The latter is what the final mix for CD/Digital Download release is and it's usually 16-bit 48khz crap like Jeff said. However, there are a few companies that actually sell HQ downloads/digital audio files in FLAC, WAV, or other formats, made from the Studio Masters - which they license from the music companies - at high-resolutions. Sony has their own version of this now and it probably won't catch on but it's a sign of things to come. As for DVD-Audio and SACD, they didn't have a chance in Hell of catching on. Both were introduced at the wrong time, required specific separate hardware, and sold at price points that only wealthy consumers could afford. SACD is only still alive because boutique A/V manufacturers still churn out a few players that support it and Sony has supported it - and continues to support it - on their Blu-Ray players, keeping it going in Japan where the bulk of SACD work is replicated and released. Fortunately, both of those audio disc formats have been largely kicked to the curb in favor of Blu-Ray Audio which works on current A/V equipment using lossless audio codecs - LPCM or DTS-HD-MA - that are compatible with anything on the market today.
 
Did a new test today,

Used a quite fat Mac Pro. that had a SSD drive holding a ProresLT UHD 25p file. And used a Envidia Geforce 650 card that does HDMI out at the right UHD resolution.


Screen refresh rate set to 25hz.... then played the file.

Well it does almost work.. but every 10th second or so there is a studder....

So basically this TV does not work to me it can not take a streaming video feed and play it back correctly without judder. So today I called up the reseller and they will get back to me.

Will see what they say. But basically they sell a TV in sweden that does not really have the ability to playback any european standards.... I think that's not really what they thought when they started to sell this unit :)
 
Björn Benckert said:
Did a new test today,

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Will see what they say. But basically they sell a TV in sweden that does not really have the ability to playback any european standards.... I think that's not really what they thought when they started to sell this unit :)
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Bjorn,

On Facebook, Seiki Digital posted last month that they will announce international plans at CES 2014


Seiki Digital we will be announcing our international plans at CES!

October 28 at 6:06pm





I am not so sure you have the same exact Seiki unit...
 
They could have bitten large piece of initial 4K 1st gen market with international release since beginning. Now? They have to at least update to hdmi 2.0 alongside starting selling on this side of pond. Sony's 55 cost twice as much, but seems more future proof to me in light of their announcement of hdmi2 update.
 
John Bellari said:
Bjorn,

On Facebook, Seiki Digital posted last month that they will announce international plans at CES 2014


Seiki Digital we will be announcing our international plans at CES!

October 28 at 6:06pm





I am not so sure you have the same exact Seiki unit...
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They are sold in europe under different brand name "Andersen" in two swedish electronic shops, thats where I bought mine and I very much demand that they make sure it play's back 25p or they will have to came and take it back. I'm in contact with their service staff at the moment and they "investigate" the problem... they could not really give a straight answer what video card or player actually can play together with this tv... so I think their testing has not been that extensive to say the least :(

Brandon J.F. said:
Did anyone try updating to the latest Seiki firmware?

https://nuvola4k.com/support.php
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I will do it tomorrow... But I do not have to much hope. They do not really talk about the issues of the "stuttering" disappearing on the download page so i think the problems are still there..
 
$849.99 for the brand new 55" Seiki SE55UY04 4K UHD set on Black Friday 2013. Ridiculously low price, no HDMI 2.0 however.

I believe there is a minimum 2 sets per store, good luck getting one!

http://bfads.net/Black-Friday/Sears/Ad?page=66

I am amazed how quickly prices came down this year 2013,
and next year this should be the real deal as the newer 2014 sets should properly support HDMI 2.0 by then.
 
Late 2013 ones already do. Panasonic one and Sony's. Maybe soon Samsung's as well. Very probable reason for price drop. Pitty that i don't know how HDMI 2.0 can be used for gpu input at it's full capabilities, as AFAIK none from current gpu-s support HDMI 2.0.
 
I think I cracked it. It's been some frustrating weeks. But now I actually think that I got the Andersen 50" to cooperate in 25p....

Using mac pro, NvidiaGeforce 760 2Gb on maverick it makes it possible to playback 4k proress files in quicktime without studder.

Will film some test patterns in 100 fps thursday to make sure. And also 24hz in 96fps.... Just in time for our little 4k motion for stills event:

http://www.syndicate.se/motion-for-stills-ultra-hd-workshop-delight-studios-21-nov/
 
This tv is going on sale for $730. The 39" is going for $499. Went ahead and bought the 39" to hold me out until we get some really good and affordable 4k panels/projectors.
 
Chris McKechnie said:
May have to pick up the smaller one with my new MBPR...yea it's only 30hz out of the HDMI, but could at least look at 4K material. Anyone else tried it?
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Ditto -
have been thinking of the 39" for a general edit interface monitor and occassional 4K viewing, so any experiences/opinions appreciated.

Stu Aull
SX199
Alaska
 
stu aull said:
Ditto -
have been thinking of the 39" for a general edit interface monitor and occassional 4K viewing, so any experiences/opinions appreciated.

Stu Aull
SX199
Alaska
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I second this! Thinking about nabbing the 39" as the price keeps dropping.
 
I bought the 39" for GUI and it works fairly well for Davinci and editing but fonts on Mac are way too small in general to read. I have it 2' away or so and have 20/20...

For 4K playback it has limited use because it is so hard to calibrate to anything close to r709.
 
swutchresX and Tom driver mod for AMD Radeon (not)

swutchresX and Tom driver mod for AMD Radeon (not)

I tried the code Tom shared and it does not seem to recognize my card (AMD Radeon 6750 1GB - 2011 mbp 17)
Talking to Stephane of switchresx he made me aware that there are several levels of restriction - First OSX and then second the video card driver.
Sometimes Apple may have written the video driver. May be why newer mbp retina support 4K.

Anyway, the solutions I have seen so far seem to target nvidia and possibly intel video cards but not AMD. I am assuming the external is driven by the AMD not the intel.
AMD seems to provide windows drivers but not mac drivers.
So last call for any AMD specific solutions for 2011 mbp to drive seiki. Otherwise I will wait for new UltraVision 4K v.2 ;)
Thx all
 
Jonas Klittmark said:
I bought the 39" for GUI and it works fairly well for Davinci and editing but fonts on Mac are way too small in general to read. I have it 2' away or so and have 20/20...

For 4K playback it has limited use because it is so hard to calibrate to anything close to r709.
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How old are you? Any far-sightedness? The 39 inch pixel wise is barely smaller than a 27 inch 2560x1440 display. Even without correction (after laser I am like 20/30 or so without correction with .75 diopters of astigmatism) I can see stuff just fine on a 22 inch 3840x2400 display which is WAY WAY smaller than that 39 inch when your comparing the difference between that and say a 27 inch 1440p display.

Sadly my 50 inch seiki was stolen out of my house the day before thanksgiving (along with other stuff). Luckily with the sears deal I got a new one for $750 + 10% off via discover rewards.
 
Mike Finegan said:
I tried the code Tom shared and it does not seem to recognize my card (AMD Radeon 6750 1GB - 2011 mbp 17)
Talking to Stephane of switchresx he made me aware that there are several levels of restriction - First OSX and then second the video card driver.
Sometimes Apple may have written the video driver. May be why newer mbp retina support 4K.

Anyway, the solutions I have seen so far seem to target nvidia and possibly intel video cards but not AMD. I am assuming the external is driven by the AMD not the intel.
AMD seems to provide windows drivers but not mac drivers.
So last call for any AMD specific solutions for 2011 mbp to drive seiki. Otherwise I will wait for new UltraVision 4K v.2 ;)
Thx all
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I assume if its 2011 it has thunderbolt right? Just get the accel active DP 1.1 -> HDMI 1.4 adapter. As long as it has DP/thunderbolt it will run on anything with that adapter.
 
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