Valve1 Netflix is not pricey, it's £6 a month! :) compare that to an old fashion system like Sly who charge their fools £70 a month just to watch their channels full of adverts and sponsorship. Crazy!

I don't miss video rental shops as they never had the movies in stock that I wanted, they were always out on loan. I'd never want to go back to those days. Being able to download a movie in HD to rent or buy from say Vimeo or iTunes is purely wonderful :)

Millemissen wrote:

Playdrv4me wrote:

but within 2 years all of the delivery problems should be mostly sorted as new efficient codecs come along to help ease the overhead of UHD. 

I do not agree with your estimate of 2 years.

Just think of the massive internet speed problems, that a lot of people still have.

The 4K material delievered today through streaming suffers from heavy compression - and when/if the tv stations starts to broadcast (HEVC encoded) UHD programs, they most certainly will be 'paid for services', probably sports events.

Even if there will be a UHD movie channel, it won't be cheap and you'll have to pay for a lot of stuff/crap, that you don't want.

I am sure, that the 'small round disc' will be around for some time.

And I have no problems with that - especially because it gives me the best picture AND sound quality possible.

MM

It's possible that you're right. It doesn't much matter to me as I watch all my movies at the cinema anyway. I have a card called MoviePass here in the US which allows me to view 1 movie per day of my choosing for a flat fee of 30.00 per month (it's quite a losing proposition for them with heavy users like me considering EACH movie I see is about 10.00 a showing and I typically go 2 or 3 days a week... I see EVERY new film). I actually enjoy the experience of going, even by myself, to sitting at home and watching. I considered getting a Sony XBR65X950B recently, but realized it would be wasted on 720 and 1080 cable programs. 

But on the flip side of the argument, all of these TV manufacturers aching to squeeze out the tiniest of profits on all their new 4K TV sets, are doing everything they possibly can working with content providers and the movie industry to speed along the adoption of viable 4K delivery formats to justify the cost of these new TVs. There is nothing wrong with the shiny things, but that doesn't mean that 24 months is an unrealistic expectation to start seeing more readily available UHD content via streams and fiber and RF cable providers. 

I just moved to a new flat, so had a B&O guy installing my system. He told me that on a AV gathering people that had seen 4K tv's from other brands like samsung, sony.. When they came to the B&O stand and saw the picture quality on the BV 11, they thought it was 4k.

I just moved to a new flat, so had a B&O guy installing my system. He told me that on a AV gathering people that had seen 4K tv's from other brands like samsung, sony.. When they came to the B&O stand and saw the picture quality on the BV 11, they thought it was 4k.