You missed my overall point: we went thru EXACTLY the same rhetoric with the onset of HDTV. "No better without big screen & sit close." "Lackluster & limited content." "Bandwidth limits." etc.
Yes, my next display will be a 4K significantly larger than the HDTV it replaces and which in turn was significantly larger than the CRT it replaced.
Yes, I can see the difference at a common (for my home) viewing distance.
Yes, bandwidth will suck initially but I've done my part to have enough and Netflix et al WILL increase what they supply.
And yes, when all the tech & content involved improves sufficiently I will be able to enjoy it as it improves.
Oh - and yes, you WILL get your own 4K display et al. I'm only impressed by your argument if you're still using a CRT as your primary home movie screen.
Man, believe me, you are wasting your breath here. Apple has endorsed 1080p for this box and that's all these people care about. Thus, 4K is a gimmick, stupid, "you can't see the difference," "until the whole internet is upgraded," "until everything in the iTunes store is available in 4K", "the chart" and on and on... will just keep on being spun... exactly as the very same was spun when Apple's
TV2 clung to 720p while the rest of the AV space had pretty much moved on to 1080p. Back then 1080p made no sense, was a gimmick, "until everything in the iTunes store..." and so on (even "the chart" was the same with just different screen resolutions written in).
Note how Apple HAS embraced 4K in just about everything else. The most important product shoots it's videos in 4K. It has iMovie (or Macs have FCPX) fully capable of editing 4K and rendering it. Retina Macs- such as the 5K iMac touts the ability to edit 4K at up to full quality resolution. The renders are to an Apple Quicktime file that will go right into Apple's iTunes. In short, EVERY link in the Apple chain is
already 4K. But this crowd won't fault Apple for embracing the gimmick in all that other stuff... just this ONE Apple product is where it makes no sense... until...
Only when Apple rolls out
TV5 "now with 4K" will all this anti-4K sentiment evaporate. In short, take note of all the people putting it down here... then see if they come back to rip Apple for embracing 4K when the "5" is rolled out. They won't. Instead, it will be "shut up and take my money"... exactly as it was when Apple finally embraced 1080p in
TV3. This is exactly the same story with the very same arguments being spun to rationalize what Apple wants us to buy now... all of which will just vanish when Apple rolls out the "5". Some of these same people will then be in those threads gushing praise for that new "5."
Basically, what Apple has for sale now is the one perfect thing for all. Nothing else can make any sense. Do not "think different." Only when Apple shifts can some other thing become the new perfect... and it does... just about every time they shift. See perfect smart phone screen sizes vs. "abominations" bigger than those screen sizes... until Apple went 4" and then again when they went 4.7" and 5.5" (I'm still looking for all the pants with bigger pockets and man purses- did nobody buy the 4.7" and 5.5" iPhones???). Or see anti-NFC threads ("gimmick", "stupid", "useless", etc) until Apple rolled out Apple Pay and then we wanted to boycott stores that wouldn't let us pay that way. And on and on.
It's really very simple: a 4K
TV would not put any burden on anyone to buy anything 4K (no new TV sets, no 4K videos, etc). Those happy with 1080p (or 720p or SD) videos could keep right on watching their preferred resolutions (better hardware can easily downscale to lower resolutions). Games rendered for 1080p (or 720p) would just be upscaled on 4K televisions just as 1080p or lower movies are now, so no burden on the hardware or graphics engine would be necessary. Etc. So the anti-4K crowd would have absolutely nothing to lose had Apple gone 4K here. But the pro-4K crowd could have been made happy by Apple too. And the following chain could have been an entirely Apple chain all the way to the TV:
4K shot on iPhone-> edited in iMovie/FCPX-> rendered to Quicktime-> Stored in iTunes-> Apple TV-> 4K TV. Just one missing link for a WHOLE solution from Apple.
