Comments on: Sony First out of the Gate with a Home Server Delivering 4K Content

By: Come Development Hell or High Water, Sony PS4K is Coming (But with 100GB Downloads?) - NoFilmSchool

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:33:25 +0000

[...] at this point, because Sony does not yet seem to have a clear strategy for 4K home delivery. Do you need Sony’s 4K TV to access it, or don’t you? It’s now looking like either will be answered [...]

By: Daniel Mimura

Daniel Mimura — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 03:06:05 +0000

Does anyone remember Divx?

Not the torrent format originally called Divx:)?

The industry tried the server/locked into your TV, Big Brother style back in the 90′s. Thank god that lost and we went with DVD instead…

…but it’s coming back! They would rather you rent than buy, that way you’re locked into their system, their content…

In another way entirely, I don’t think we’re ready for 4k as far as the pipeline. I’m not convinced yet b/c I only stream stuff from Netflix to my laptop, not to my TV. I get blurays for watching content on my TV b/c the compression with streaming is awful. If you download it, it’s gonna take forever to download, which means a new faster than high speed internet, or all those flaws that make it take forever to download as it is today is just gonna be that much worse with the flaws presented 4 times larger. And lately, some netflix streaming films are starting to have that bleedy smoothing crap like people who set up their tv’s “wrong”. It makes everything look like a Michael Mann movie or that I’m tripping MAKE IT STOP ARGHHHH!!!

By: Daniel Mimura

Daniel Mimura — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 02:47:53 +0000

Woah. Take a look at any kodak stock of any decade (excluding varieties of panchromatic film…aka b/w film which hasn’t changed) and then look at a stock a decade later. Night and day different! They have evolved their stocks just slightly slower than Moore’s “Law” has evolved digital cameras.

Grainless is literally impossible if you are talking about silver halide emulsion.

By: Steve Muulen

Steve Muulen — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:09:50 +0000

Why assume the 4K movies would be streamed and so need a super speed connection? They wouldn’t need to be. Choose a movie at work and a few hours later it will be on a hard drive at home.

Why assume 84″ is too big? In a 800 SF apt in NYC I had a projector with an 84″ screen. Just right for movies!

Why assume the cost is too great. In 3 years 4K will just be HD in price. It has to drop fast because Japan has 8K in the labs for 5 years from now.

By: V. Anand

V. Anand — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:55:23 +0000

I guess at the moment 4k TVs @ 84 inches would
probably be restricted to Trial theatres for film makers,
technicians and friends and/or Dubbing theatres.
But what I am really waiting for is that grainless film
from Kodak, which could outlast all the 2k, 4k or 8k digital
improvements for my archival print. Technology is changing
so fast, what about storing the material in some physical
form which is easily readable and will not require a machine
which outdates itself in 3 to 4 years? But can be scanned easily
on any new innovation?

By: Zan Shin

Zan Shin — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:14:58 +0000

I can hear it now: Canon fanboys howling about how the entire season finale episode of House was shot on a 4K DSLR…

By: Natt

Natt — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 03:56:39 +0000

You mean photochemical film will evolve? I’d like to see that, actually. Where’s completely grainless film Kodak once promised, again?

By: Natt

Natt — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 03:45:44 +0000

Are Sony re-conformed Total Recall and Spidey in 4K? If not, this is very funny, because both films were finished in 2K for theaters.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 03:13:42 +0000

@dv sorry dude. I work at another huge cable company. fios is no longer expanding its network. It will only service areas where they have laid fiber. No more additional footprint.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 03:11:02 +0000

The Sony stores are actually displaying the 4k tvs in case any of you want to check it out. I saw the 80 something inch tv at the Sony store in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia a few weeks ago. Pretty impressive. I asked them whether it was real 4k footage and they said yes. Footage was sent from a PC. $24,999 + tax:p

By: dv

dv — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 01:36:04 +0000

> Everyone

Not me.

By: Nate

Nate — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:31:52 +0000

I’m with you. It would seem pointless to have 4k if your tv was anything sub 84 inch, and I can’t see many people buying something like that unless they have specific made theater rooms to fit the thing. Also, professional installations anyone? Good luck with you and the wife putting that up.

By: Swested

Swested — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:09:37 +0000

BOOOORING. I’m waiting for my 8K set. With Smell-o-vision.

By: vinceGortho

vinceGortho — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:54:06 +0000

4k may take longer than bluray to take off.
there is a lot of bluray content out there but not everybody has it.

By: Antoine Serviette

Antoine Serviette — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:13:47 +0000

Resolution is something, at least in the gaming realm, that is always a top/sought after priority, along with frame rates. I stand by my assertion that a PS4k or whatever will happen within the next year or two, and 4K games and tv sets and monitors will follow. Don’t ever doubt the progress of technology, shit changes really fast.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:54:24 +0000

But if we had the other part ready before this then everyone will be wondering what that would be worth.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:43:10 +0000

I think the company best positioned to get out in front of the 4K era is…drumroll plez….

Apple.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:40:40 +0000

thanks

By: Michael Markham

Michael Markham — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:09:03 +0000

Oh yeah. 4K has arrived! $25,000 ?!?!?!. Yeah my grandma’s finally throwing out her old flat panel HD and catching up with all of us. It’s only $25,000. Whatever. i spent that on Powerball tickets this week.

4K is so far from being “Here”. Other than the small market of professional houses, there is no demand for 4K. The average consumer knows nothing about this and won’t for another 5 years.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:50:53 +0000

” Blu-ray “