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Go to bustbuy.com > TV section. Tell me 4K is irrelevant after you view the content of the front page. Yes, minimal content, but youtube has lots of free cont

Go to bustbuy.com > TV section. Tell me 4K is irrelevant after you view the content of the front page. Yes, minimal content, but youtube has lots of free content. 2016 is less than two months out.

JohnTHaller 11y ago
Read this again: "To the vast majority of consumers, 4K is currently irrelevant." It's very relevant to electronics stores like BestBuy as they want people to buy new things. But 1080p to 4K is going to take a LOT longer than SD to HD did. Even in that transition, some folks were happy with fake HD (720p) as opposed to full HD (1080p). The majority of laptops still ship with fake HD screens. Far less than 1% of homes have a single 4K panel in their home. Far less than 1% of content is available in 4K. So, yes, "To the vast majority of consumers, 4K is currently irrelevant." The key word here is currently. A year from now -- not "2016", I mean 12 months from now -- there may well be enough 4K content to make it worthwhile for upper-middle and upper-class families. But there isn't right now. And a year from now there will be a new set of TV top devices.
toxican 11y ago
Go to bestbuy.com a few years ago > TV section. Tell me 3DTVs are irrelevant. Doesn't matter what they're selling if most people still have HDTVs
saturdaysaint 11y ago
Go to Best Buy 3 years ago and look at all the 3D TVs and tell me that 3D television isn't about to completely dominate media consumption. TV makers aren't in the driver's seat. You have to sit very close to even a 60" 4K TV to experience much of a difference - you essentially need a TV that dominates your living room to really discern the resolution leap. The performance penalty for games is severe enough that nobody's in a hurry to release a 4K console, so Apple gets a lot more advantage standardizing around one resolution.

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Go to bustbuy.com > TV section. Tell me 4K is irrelevant after you view the content of the front page. Yes, minimal content, but youtube has lots of free cont

by leanthonyrn 11y ago

Go to bustbuy.com > TV section. Tell me 4K is irrelevant after you view the content of the front page. Yes, minimal content, but youtube has lots of free content. 2016 is less than two months out.

JohnTHaller 11y ago
Read this again: "To the vast majority of consumers, 4K is currently irrelevant." It's very relevant to electronics stores like BestBuy as they want people to buy new things. But 1080p to 4K is going to take a LOT longer than SD to HD did. Even in that transition, some folks were happy with fake HD (720p) as opposed to full HD (1080p). The majority of laptops still ship with fake HD screens. Far less than 1% of homes have a single 4K panel in their home. Far less than 1% of content is available in 4K. So, yes, "To the vast majority of consumers, 4K is currently irrelevant." The key word here is currently. A year from now -- not "2016", I mean 12 months from now -- there may well be enough 4K content to make it worthwhile for upper-middle and upper-class families. But there isn't right now. And a year from now there will be a new set of TV top devices.
toxican 11y ago
Go to bestbuy.com a few years ago > TV section. Tell me 3DTVs are irrelevant. Doesn't matter what they're selling if most people still have HDTVs
saturdaysaint 11y ago
Go to Best Buy 3 years ago and look at all the 3D TVs and tell me that 3D television isn't about to completely dominate media consumption. TV makers aren't in the driver's seat. You have to sit very close to even a 60" 4K TV to experience much of a difference - you essentially need a TV that dominates your living room to really discern the resolution leap. The performance penalty for games is severe enough that nobody's in a hurry to release a 4K console, so Apple gets a lot more advantage standardizing around one resolution.