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

[Rudi Herbert]

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...

[Al Lougher]

I'll settle to see Tom's Timescapes on my Optoma 1080p projector thank you very much.

[Stacey Spears]

How did you drive the Sony display? It supports single HDMI 4k @ 24p or QuadHD @ 30p.

[Philipe Ratton]

The real question is, how do I become friends with Peter :)

[Detlev Eller]

... lol ... (!)

[Les Dittert]

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 .

[Stacey Spears]

Panasonic now has an 8k Plasma.

[Brad Webb]

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.

[Jeff Kilgroe]

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.

[Bob Gundu]

I heard they were way more than that.

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 .