Owning a 4K TV right now is like having a PS4. It makes for great bragging rights to your friends but even then, you can't do much with it. The content just isn't there. Samsung are providing customers with a hard drive with a media server built in containing 4K content; five movies and three documentaries with access to 50 more, though exact details are not known at this time. Netflix will be streaming "Orange is the New Black" and "House of Cards" in 4K (only on new sets), but how long until Sky broadcast in UHD? They have already proved the broadcast technology but there has yet to be a public broadcast, and the BBC will be even further behind. So whilst Samsung and LG want customers to spend several thousand pounds on an over-large television set that they don't use all the features on, there will be no mass output for possibly the next 12 months. Having been an early adopter of HD let me assure you that will mean nothing to those basking in the glory of their preloaded cityscapes and movies. But with the standard for playing 4K BluRay disks having yet to be fully agreed and large-scale content so far away, the compulsion to take up UHD will remain the purview of early adopters.
I.T. Consultant, technophile and Doctor Who fan. I like to talk about tech, take films apart and make excuses for Doctor Who's continuity errors. No other show has the power to make me feel like a big kid.
