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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

4K for All.

I actually think that it's kinda sad that 3D receives so much hate, now it's all about 4K which means it will take some time before 4K TV's get 4K 3D including media that can play 3D in 4K. Also, I would like to see a reasonably affordable OLED at a size where it's viable to use 4K, like 70 inches and up. Or a projector... speaking of that, is the Red projector dead now or will it ever be reality?

The only thing I feel is a setback when working with 4K is that while I can handle it all on my laptop (slow, but workable), many VFX artists except the top names and companies don't want to work with 4K or rather they charge ridiculously much for it. The movies you want to see in 4K are the movies with spectacular views and that often demands VFX shots or VFX supported shots. It makes you pull back on resolution to be able to create the images you want :(
 
85"+, 4k 60p, great color and < $3,000. That's when I'm all in. Looks like it'll be this year or next. If there is one company though that deserves a HUGE round of applause for bringing 4k to the consumer it's Vizio. It was almost overnight that everybody had to drop the price of their 4k panels from $10k+ to $2,000. I'm sure Samsung et. all were looking forward to milking premium 4k prices for at least a few years. But Vizio really eliminated any chance that and in my opinion accelerated 4k consumer adoption by a couple years as a result. In the long run I think all of the manufacturers should be thanking them.
 
I believe only Vimeo PRO accounts can stream 4k... I've got PLUS and the only options for 4k is to 'download original'.

I'm very curious to see how the infrastructure copes with 4k along with more and more net only media consumers. It wasn't long ago that ISP's considered 250GB/month to be an 'extreme user', 4k streaming will crush that pretty quickly. I just checked December usage for my house... between Streaming (we are net only... no cable since 2003) and the Steam Holiday sale we hit our ISP for 750GB. Pretty extreme definitely (our average monthly use is 250-350GB) but the trend has been upward steadily as more content providers deliver higher quality media (the majority of our bandwidth consumption is streaming media).
 
The new DOCSIS standard hits the network infrastructure this year, so that means a big bandwidth increase, especially since many existing cable modems might be upgraded to use it with a firmware update. I myself won't be buying a 4K TV until 2016 at the earliest because I want things to stabilize with the new HDMI 2.x and other possible connectivity options like MHL and DP, but I will definitely be buying 4K and 5K PC displays in 2016 to watch online content as well as my own stuff on my computers.
 
L. Langer said:
The new DOCSIS standard hits the network infrastructure this year, so that means a big bandwidth increase, especially since many existing cable modems might be upgraded to use it with a firmware update.
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Interesting and good to know!!
 
Dish Network just joined the 4K party today as well.
 
I think this year is it... the number of UHD TV's for sale over Christmas (and at very nice price points) was great to see - and many of them integrated streaming media connectivity right in the TV (Hopefully most of them can actually stream 4k).
 
Happy New Year -- everyone, as well.

Sounds great, and I hope the question mark in many people's face will vanish now more and more -- while we talk about 4K. ;o)
 
Based on the early stuff I'm seeing from CES 2015 I have to say this is really going to be a massive year for UHD 4K and 4K with a little bit of 4K+ thrown in there for good measure.

With the quality level of some of the announced displays hitting those price points mainstream consumers should easily be able to experience 4K content at home.

Digital Distribution is an amazing ball of chaotic fire, but I'm loving the work being done trying to hone it on what works.
 
As soon as TV's get down to a price range that enables 4K for a consumer not as the primary feature but as a feature among others of that TV, then the explosion of 4K will come.
The large scale masses will not jump on 4K just because it's 4K, it need to be a standard that exists just as 720 and 1080 exists on any TV. Almost no one can buy a new TV today that isn't a 1080p TV.
So I sincerely hope that computer screens, TV's and so on jump on 4K as a standard, not as a "gold" feature, but as the regular thing that should just be there. This is the last step to push the technology. Net streaming bandwidth will just have to realign to the new bandwidth demands of that kind of video streaming, they will have to do it because consumers will demand it.

I feel good that it's actually coming together now, that CES focus so much on 4K and Dolby and new standards in color is on the roadmap. I feel that it's finally starting now, the broad mass scale of 4K, which is important for us as content creators of 4K.
 
Brandon J.F. said:
I've had a 4K+ camera for 3 years now. Time to get a 4K TV :)
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Until I find one that works with my UltraStudio 4K, I will just sit on the fence and create 4K material ;)
 
Looks like Netflix is experimenting with high-color gamut on Sony's latest 4K sets.
 
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