I think the future lies with something like Sony 4k ultra short throw projector connected wireless with wisa but at higher bandwith for 4k.

Agree. If you want to get out of this technological war take a BV7 with bluray, attacks a fullhd projector and you're ok for years. When you have 2 meters of the screen you do not need another.

I suspect it will just keep developing, stall for a bit whilst the content catches up (like 4k) and then move forward, same as it always has. There will always be something new around the corner.

I think the future lies not in what we watch TV on but how we watch it - ipads, phones etc maybe even glasses in the future.

The one thing that hasn't moved forward though is the content. In the UK we have never ending reality shows and generally dumbed down television with a never ending stream of celebrities. Until that changes then I don't see the point in paying a licence fee and so I just watch Apple TV and stream movies from Netflix and Lovefilm. I think there will be massive changes now that we have high speed broadband and streaming capabilities and at some point the traditional TV station with it's programming will make way for TV on demand. That, imho, will be TV revolution rather than the technology we view it on.

Another point may well be that the way in which some programmes/films are presented - some films are too dark, some too much colour and the modern thing of over exposure in adverts so that everything looks almost white is really annoying. Back in the day the BBC used to spend vast amounts of money on monitors so that all the programmes had the same colour, contrast and brightness - now it changes all the time.

BTW - agree with the comments on the Avant CRT and BV3 - all the Beovisions I have had, have had superb pictures.  

I still use an Avant CRT and BV3 and the picture is still superb! The sound is also great!

I suspect it will be a long time, if ever, before it settles down, mainly because the big manufacturers need turnover, they need you to become dissatisfied with your set so you will buy another one. Their entire business model is not based on selling only replacement sets to people, or to new buyers of a bigger screen, they need to churn the market constantly. And they do this by inventing something new, and marketing it as a must have, even if it isn't better or even as good as what it replaces, just easier and cheaper for them to make. As in, crappy LCD panels instead of plasma.

The audio side tries to do this with HD audio files, with so far limited success. It seems the TV makers are better at convincing people what they must have is what's new.

Couldn't agree more. Cheers, Kai

There's a series on the BBC right now called "The Men Who Make Us Spend" and this would sort of answer your question about when TV standards will ever stabilise. They won't.

The conspiracy theories presented by this TV programme effectively imply that modern marketing is about constantly generating buzz about 'future products' to entice us to keep upgrading. Manufacturers don't want people to sit with their TV for ten years. They want people to upgrade every couple or so years, so keep coming up with new standards/ideas/plans to get people to upgrade.

I remember about ten years ago, Adobe used to make their once-a-year pilgrimage to us technology publishers to announce the latest version of Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver etc. Each one of these applications had 10 - and only 10 - key new features each year.

Adobe's PR lady admitted once that they sat down as a group and often planned these 10 features often two or three years in advance. If they came up with too many ideas, they simply held them off for year, so they didn't give their end users too many new features, too soon. They had to get them to upgrade to the new version every year, didn't they? :) So, they put a ceiling on new features and pushed back new ideas until next years update.

It's the same with TV technology. Whilst we're buying Avant's that might not even play 120Hz 4K which may or may not happen, there's talk about 8K, OLED, 5G streaming and much more.

Re: Adobe. Not sure thats at all how we ran development. But definitely a good story and makes the point. We were definitely never contrived around what we'd put in a product or not, or limiting anything - it was more a matter of what we could get delivered reliably within the launch timeframe.

OLED is now the best technology and would be the future in B&O tvs.