4K TV Service

[The Moose]

Will someone be releasing a 4K TV service at some point soon? I assume Sky would be the first to put out SKY 4K or similar in the same way they have the HD channels.

I'm tempted by a rather nice (and quite large) 4K TV...

[The Moose]

Magic919 said:

You haven't even got Sky.

Just buy the TV if you like it.

I don't yet, but would go for a service with a 4K service with a 4K TV.

Just a part of me struggles to justify spending £5k on a TV...that I have no feed for!!

[The Moose]

vescaegg said:

Netflix streams 4k.

Am I correct in thinking that's just House of Cards though?

[The Moose]

LordGrover said:

Someone posted here t'other day he bought a 4K telly for £500.

Not a 78 inch curved Samsung

[The Moose]

garyhun said:

Am I right in thinking that there is no 'standard' for 4k transmission yet, so some 4k TVs would not be compatible with some 4k programs?

I could have dreamt that!

I've heard similar things, however the Samsung come with their "future ready" boxes which supposedly will deal with that for a few hundred quid.

[The Moose]

Muncher said:

I thought some broadcasters might be skipping 4k entirely and they were already concentrating on 8k?

The problem with 8K (and of course 4K) as has already been pointed out is that the amount of data is far too large. I'd never seriously be able to stream 4K unless you could 'download' the program in advance and then watch it.

[The Moose]

LordGrover said:

The Moose said:

Not a 78 inch curved Samsung

That's a whopper!
I'm a mere 73.5" in my socks.

I'm curved however

[The Moose]

T1berious said:

I'll just put this here....

http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/4k-3d-201501273992....

They agreed the UHD "standard" just after CES I think, so the big news was the colour gamut and bit rate.

and this

http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/sky-bt-201502034004...

General gist is that you'll see rollout's by Q3 of Sky and BT's 4K platforms.

However....

Considering the compression needed to get HD I dread to think what they'll need for 4K, talk is of UHD Blu Ray supporting 3 layer 100Gb Disks!

I'm waiting till the 2015 UHD Models hit as they "may" support the BT 2020 standard.

Thank you. That's helpful...for a tv salesman!!