Sony's version of REDRay.

[mikeburton]

I'm waiting for HDMI 2.0 to be standard on these new 4K UHD TV's. I had a personal demo from a Sony rep on the new 55' TV and was impressed with the panel but price is too high right now and bottom line is connectivity is still a pain in the ass from the finishing standpoint. That and I don't have clients banging down my door asking for UHD masters yet for broadcast. In the next year when those requests start to come in will play right in line with the hardware prices of the TV's coming way down as the Manufacturers start flooding the market with TV's in Costco's, Best Buys etc. Right now having a RedRay and Sony TV connected is strictly for cool factor as I don't see that there is much demand yet for playback in broadcast networks or even theatres yet. 99% of the Sony 4K projectors in the theatres are only projecting 2K still. This will all start to change but its all relative to the consumers and distribution sources which aren't quite there yet. 2014 and beyond will be the time though. Right now your the cool kid with the latest tech in the 4k monitoring and playback world and there is a heavy premium associated to being the cool kid

 

[David Cole]

Nanotech will have a 4K media player, Nuvola NP-1 for $299 in the shops July 15, preloaded will ten 4K movies. This player will be for 4K streaming content when they launch their service.

Nanotech announced a partnership with Seiki...

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/na...hd-experience-2013-07-29?reflink=MW_news_stmp

 

[mark haflich]

I find the announcement rather disgusting. The stock market evidently did to as the stock price NTEK stayed at about 6 cents. The announcement plugged the Nanotech player/server and Seiki panels as being able to bring consumers the "ultimate" in UHD. Recent publications have referred to Seiki as a 3rd tier panel builder and the video quality of their panels is questionable to say the leasr. The nanateck player appears to be a technological joke compared to the Sony yet alone the Redray.

 

[David Kuhn]

The guys in our Media lab got one of the Sony players, and I've SEEN it... but I've not actually seen it DO anything yet. It appears that for it to do anything but sit there not only does it need an always on internet connection, but the tv it's connected to ALSO needs to be connected to the internet. The IT guys have balked at poking holes in their firewall to let a media player and it's tv connect... so Sony's player is currently a paperweight... curious to see how it looks though.