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Sony 4k TV's now at Best Buy

Wonder what they'll be showing on them. Seinfeld in HD?

I hate best buy, but yes, that's very cool.
 
last time i was at best buy 6 months ago their television tech specialist asked me if 4K was a brand. exciting times indeed.
 
Im curious what content they will show on this TV. Hopefully Sony will provide actual 4K content and player for them to show. It would be sad if Bestbuy just hooks it up to the same content shown on the other tvs.
 
Chad Lancaster said:
Got an email today that best buy is now selling Sony 4k LED TV's. Very exciting times!
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I got the email too, the link is http://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&id=pcat17071&type=page&ks=960&st=Sony_4K_TV_105688&sc=Global&cp=1&sp=-bestsellingsort+skuid&qp=q536f6e795f344b5f54565f313035363838~~cabcat0100000%23%231%23%232~~cabcat0101000%23%231%23%232~~ncabcat0101001%23%230%23%232&list=y&usc=All+Categories&nrp=15&iht=n

Overall RED should feel pretty proud of what they have accomplished, as finally 4k has arrived in mass market advertising.
 
Interesting that 3840x2160 is becoming the tv standard "4k". I always thought 4k had to be at least 4096 by definition.
 
Shawn Nelson said:
Interesting that 3840x2160 is becoming the tv standard "4k". I always thought 4k had to be at least 4096 by definition.
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Well they have to figure a way to make us buy again in a couple years...a line of "True 4k" televisions.
 
Quad HD makes a lot of sense from a manufacturing and scaling standpoint, but that has nothing to do with the question of "How the hell is 3.75k ok to sell as '4k'?"
 
Shawn Nelson said:
Quad HD makes a lot of sense from a manufacturing and scaling standpoint, but that has nothing to do with the question of "How the hell is 3.75k ok to sell as '4k'?"
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The same way it's ok to tell people they are buying a 4tb hard drive when the drive is actually 3.6tb formatted :) Not saying it's ok... Just how it is.
 
Shawn Nelson said:
Quad HD makes a lot of sense from a manufacturing and scaling standpoint, but that has nothing to do with the question of "How the hell is 3.75k ok to sell as '4k'?"
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Is QUADHD the winner in the 4k definition standard? Reason why I am asking is I have a possibility of doing a Quadhd WideScreen DI at 3840x1600 - which I did not pick ... might be i should change my mind. I could probably handle the cost difference if i make the decision this week for the quad hd ws mode (btw full 4k DI sounds like it's not horrible ... but when I worked out all the time/costs it didn't work for me).
 
Brandon J.F. said:
The same way it's ok to tell people they are buying a 4tb hard drive when the drive is actually 3.6tb formatted :) Not saying it's ok... Just how it is.
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This, and also technically the term for the standard is UHD now, not 4K. Though I'm sure "4K" will probably still be thrown around a bit.
 
3840 x 2160 vs 4096 x 2160. True 4K has about 7% more pixels than 4HD or as THEY call it UHD. The much wider color space and bit length of 4K or UHD is much more significant and important them losing 5% from 4K.
 
PatrickFaith said:
I got the email too, the link is http://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchp...##0##2&list=y&usc=All+Categories&nrp=15&iht=n

Overall RED should feel pretty proud of what they have accomplished, as finally 4k has arrived in mass market advertising.
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Do you really think 4K would have not happened if Red never existed? The TVs went from SD to 720 to 1080. The cellphone screen resolution went from 640 x 480 (and lower) to full HD now.


Why do you think the TVs would have been stuck forever at full HD without Red?
 
Rehan K said:
Do you really think 4K would have not happened if Red never existed? The TVs went from SD to 720 to 1080. The cellphone screen resolution went from 640 x 480 (and lower) to full HD now.
Why do you think the TVs would have been stuck forever at full HD without Red?
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Basically without disruptive companies like RED, standards tend to get stuck in 20 year cycles(i.e. so without RED we would probably have seen 4k tv's/monitor lined up with laser glasses deployment sometime in early 2020).
 
PatrickFaith said:
Basically without disruptive companies like RED, standards tend to get stuck in 20 year cycles(i.e. so without RED we would probably have seen 4k tv's/monitor lined up with laser glasses deployment sometime in early 2020).
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Changes happen for all kinds of reasons. If it weren't for an earthquake, we'd probably still be seeing a lot more use of HDCam SR videotape today. And if it weren't for a very misguided negotiating stance by SAG, we might still be using a lot more film for television series today.

I give Red a lot of credit for a lot of things, but many industry trends take their natural or unnatural course based on a lot of factors, many of which are not always particularly obvious, either at the time or even with hindsight.
 
George Tsai said:
Im curious what content they will show on this TV. Hopefully Sony will provide actual 4K content and player for them to show. It would be sad if Bestbuy just hooks it up to the same content shown on the other tvs.
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netflix will probably be the first leader in SuperHD content...until direct,Dish, and the others struggle to catchup
 
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