Your next TV: Will it be Ultra HD?

[Omaha Steve]

There is no standard for UH-HDTV or 4K yet. Buyer beware.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20140108/DAB6GQTG0.html

By RYAN NAKASHIMA

LAS VEGAS (AP) - After attempts to hawk 3-D and OLED TVs fizzled in recent years, television manufacturers are taking small steps toward making a new technology, Ultra HD, more viable for mainstream consumers.

It's the first TV format to be driven by the Internet video-streaming phenomenon, and at the International CES gadget show this week, major streaming players Netflix and Amazon said they'll offer movies and TV shows in the format, and Sharp introduced a relatively inexpensive TV with near-Ultra HD quality.

The moves are meant to coax consumers to pedal faster on their TV upgrade cycles. At the moment, most Americans buy new TVs about once every seven years. TV manufacturers would love to create another wave of buying like the one that sent millions of people to stores a few years ago to upgrade from standard definition, tube TVs to flat-screen HD models.

Unlike the 3-D TV trend, which quickly eroded into a tech fad in recent years, analysts say Ultra HD may actually catch on.
With screens that house four times more pixels than regular HD TVs, Ultra HD is a simple enough upgrade to gain widespread adoption in the next few years. Aside from being visually jarring, 3-D required sometimes pricey special glasses and gave some people headaches. Because Ultra HD content can be delivered over a standard high-speed Internet connection, it isn't likely to get bogged down in a format war that plagued the Blu-ray disc standard.

FULL story at link.

[Warren Stupidity]

1. Only if it doesn't cost more than $1,000.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Likely

By the time we replace the real old tv...

[PDJane]

3. Nope. My next TV will be whatever my son buys.

He keeps my mother in working TV's, and he knows better than to purchase something that takes too much expertise to work!

[OriginalGeek]

4. Unless lightning zaps my current HDTV

and forces me to buy sooner than expected, my next tv will be UHD.

By the time I have a place big enough to utilize it and the sets are common enough to be cheaper than they are now (under a grand as mentioned above) I should be ready.

[CBGLuthier]

5. Yes it will be, but mainly because I hope to not buy a new TV for a few years

By then they will be affordable and hopefully standardized enough.

[2naSalit]

6. Ha!

My "next" TeeVee doesn't exist. I haven't had one since 1980 and don't plan to ever taint my home with one in the furture!

[onehandle]

7. Little or no media for it yet. And the bandwidth to stream current HD is rare enough.

We have FiOS 85MB+ speed and stream 'Standard' HD from iTunes and Netflix all the time on our Apple TV.

Most people I know don't have the capacity to do that, much less stream 4k video.

[Progressive dog]

8. No, I doubt it'll catch on

I saw Vizio has a 50" for $995 list.

[Whisp]

9. only if I get Ultra eyesight...

I used to not mind my teeny black and white tv back when...

[mn9driver]

10. $400, tops

I guess I'll be waiting a while for the price to come down.