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"4K Display at home is still years away..."

Tom Lowe

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Oh really? Because here's a photo of a 4K screening of "TimeScapes" at my friend Peter Chang's house the other night, using the new Sony 4K home projector.... :ciappa:
 
but I wanna watch timescapes on a Red Laser projector this year!
 
I know of homes that have theatrical Christie and Sony 4K-capable projectors in them. They're not practical from a size, cost, and noise point of view, but they're getting there. Finding good 4K source material is an issue, but that'll eventually happen.

I'm still more concerned about how the projectors reproduce dynamic range. 4K is meaningless unless it also handles black detail, contrast, good grayscale, accurate color, and all the other aspects of picture quality. The "K" is only one small part of picture quality.
 
Tom,

I would venture the guess that perhaps Peter's home is not the prototypical abode they refer to when making this type of statements? I agree with you that this technology is not as far away as many people seem to think it is, but those like yourself that are so far ahead on the edge usually lose track of the realities they left behind, those realities being the common denominator. I don't see the good old folk in middle America, those with the proverbial rosy necks, endowing their trailers with 4K projectors or 80" displays anytime soon...
 
Those of you who were at the Red party saw the huge Panasonic 4k monitor.
In the Panasonic booth at NAB an engineer from Panasonic told me that 3 of these have been installed in private homes.
The monitor costs $500,000 .
 
4K Display is years away from being in my home. Maybe even a decade. I've moved up from the big boob tube tv, but I still only have a 32" 720p LCD, and I'm not buying another tv until this one dies.


Plus I've saving up for this Dragon thing you guys maybe have heard of.
 
The Toshiba 57" 4K 3D HDTV is starting to arrive in showrooms now... Supposed to deliver to consumers in the USA in late June or early July. Price isn't that bad, but still quite expensive compared to what comparably sized LCD / Plasma HD screens go for. Looks like MSRP on this thing is about $9500. Not sure who is going to buy it. The 3D aspect of it sucks and other than the Sony up-converting Blu-Ray player, there's no 4K anything to plug into it just yet. Well, nothing unless we roll our own home theatre PC or similar and show Timescapes in 4K. :)

4K pushing into the high-end consumer HDTV market is probably at least a year off, maybe two. The displays are arriving this year, but as we saw with 1080p, it's a tough sell if there's no content out there to drive it. The Blu-4K spec as well as REDRAY will hopefully change this. DirecTV is conducting 4K tests now -- they're supposed to open up and have private testing amongst real customers at some point next year, or so I'm told. Looks like they might be using X265 compression for 4K and it seems it fits into the same bandwidth as their 1080 3D feeds.
 
I heard they were way more than that.

Les Dittert said:
Those of you who were at the Red party saw the huge Panasonic 4k monitor.
In the Panasonic booth at NAB an engineer from Panasonic told me that 3 of these have been installed in private homes.
The monitor costs $500,000 .
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