Posted on 09/08/2012 2:13:50 AM PDT by Libloather
Sony’s 84-inch LED TV with 4K resolution costs $24,999, ships in November
By: Raymond Wong | Sep 6th, 2012 at 11:35PM
As if there was any doubt Sony’s (SNE) giant 84-inch 4K resolution LED TV would be expensive, Sony has finally priced its upcoming XBR-84X900 TV. The flat screen with a whopping 3840 x 2160-pixel resolution and integrated speakers will sell for $24,999. While Sony will start taking preorders for the TV beginning Thursday, September 6th, it won’t actually be available until November.
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And 1080p from a Blu-ray movie is just breathtaking. Go see Pixar's Cars or Toy Story 3 or the Diamond Edition of Disney's Beauty and the Beast--the picture quality on Blu-ray on a 40" or bigger flat screen is just breathtaking....
Anyway, they're about to agree on a standard for 3820 x 2160 super-resolution HDTV--I've read it's so sharp it's essentially like looking out a window. Problem is, it may be years before we broadcasts at such high resolution and also an upgraded Blu-ray standard for disc players.
We will be recording our family videos at this resolution for years before the broadcasters use it or studios sell movies to the general public using it.
>> For the average home, a TV that big [84”] would be uncomfortable to watch because the viewer would be sitting way too close.
Sorry, I have to disagree. I did a cheapie roll-your-own theater room about 10 years ago with a Panasonic projector, and really looked into the issue of screen width vs. viewing distance. My screen is about that size, and ~10’-12’ is pretty perfect. Plenty of people have dens where viewing distances are that much or further.
Cuyahoga county?
Nicely done. See my previous post, made before I saw yours. We are in complete agreement.
Most likely here in Lake county
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/261288/tv_with_16_times_resolution_of_hdtv_passed_by_un_standards_body.html
The present ATSC broadcast transmission standard yields 19.2 megabits per second on a given RF channel. I’m dubious about making a decent looking moving image of 3820x2160 pixels with that bit rate. Yes, they may come up with an advanced encoding standard (mpeg5, anyone), but it may simply not be possible to achieve acceptable quality with the given bandwidth.
Cable or satellite services may come up with a usable transmisson standard long before broadcast does.
Then again, with the internet and fiber to the house, broadcast TV may be going the way of the dodo.
What happens if your eyes are only 2K?
I wonder how Ultra HD compares to the new OLED?
Is that the next TV battleground?
Both are still too expensive for most of us. So far.
They have so many cameras and I assume they record everything from each camera? That is a lot of memory storage even at 720
I understand. I mostly watch youtube informational videos on gear, guns, outdoors, camping etc. Some videos I watch are of backpacking/hiking adventures in the Rocky Mountains and western desert areas. Those scenes would look great on HDTV for sure.
More than wide enough. Then again I DVR'ed the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader tryouts on Country Music TV, and it was fun to watch at 1080 resolution on a big-screen TV.
Figure in 5 years this will drive the price of beyond-1080 TVs down to more affordable levels.
The big thing will always be the TV exceeding the resolution of the content.
Bump for later
However, if the price drops a lot well maybe I will get one, but I don't see Bluray going away anytime soon.
My 55” rear projection Mitsubishi model (2000 model) weighs close to 300 pounds. Fortunately it has 4 wheels on it.
The newer tvs ARE much lighter.
Look at the History Channel. When it first came on, I thought I'd get to see all sorts of marvelous programs about uh history. But only a tiny percentage of the History Channel programming is actually devoted to history. I love Pawn Stars ( a lot of historical objects are displayed and talked about), but they devote many hours to that program and others that have only a slight relation to history. Some not at all.
Here's my major gripe: the morons destroy good programming. That why you get huge ratings for shows like Honey Boo Boo on TLC which you could not make me watch at gunpoint. Good programming gets destroyed by the preferences of the rabble. A small percentage of what the rabble wants is good, most of it is awful.
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