Format war?

[Christoffer Glans]

Stumbled across this. So 4K will be a format war that will block this evolution in media and set it back for some time or can anyone officially smack both sony and samsung and tell them to actually think about in what way their strategy is helping themselves or not?

http://gizmodo.com/4k-is-officially-the-next-dumb-format-war-1584521558/all?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

 

[Ivan McCullough]

What? like if you buy a RedRay you can only play .red content? you need a license to create .red content and can only get one if you own a RedRay player? That would be really dumb.

 

[Kristin Stewart]

Here we're still watching movies on a 4/3 CRT TV from 1990, so I guess it's still not the time to buy a 4K TV ;-) And not a Redray too, because we're shooting our movies at 25 fps ;-)

Kristin

 

[Phil Holland]

Meh. Disregarding the fact that you can "hook things up" to 4K televisions and things like SmartTV exist allowing various media sources like Netflix, YouTube, and soon many more this article is pointing fingers in weird directions.

While there is indeed a fight for where and how we'll be getting our UHD4K content, this is looking at a fairly weird sampling.

I loathe the Sony player as much as the next guy, but the reality is when they released their UHD4K televisions there was nothing to play their content with. So they made a plastic cake that plays things and doesn't do much else.

Their televisions are nice though and you can ingest content how you see fit. So purchase or subscribe wisely when it comes to where you grab that content.

Blu-ray 4K is also on the not too distant horizon once a few things get bolted down. So for disc media fans there's that.

 

[Hrvoje Simic]

Stumbled across this. So 4K will be a format war that will block this evolution in media and set it back for some time or can anyone officially smack both sony and samsung and tell them to actually think about in what way their strategy is helping themselves or not?

http://gizmodo.com/4k-is-officially-the-next-dumb-format-war-1584521558/all?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

You are basing your conclusions on information coming from a corporate owned "gadget" site.

Teenage-boy-enthusiasm-wrapped military propaganda might be one of the tellers.

 

[Christoffer Glans]

You are basing your conclusions on information coming from a corporate owned "gadget" site.

Teenage-boy-enthusiasm-wrapped military propaganda might be one of the tellers.

It's not a conclusion, as I said, I stumbled across it and posted it here for discussion about it, I'm not here to conclude anything. With that said, Sony and Samsung might be needing some smacking anyways, especially Sony. The only format war they won was BluRay. Locking anything to a certain hardware is always bad business.