I was too... but disagreeing that (home) broadband caps will "put an end to this." I have (home) broadband cap at 1TB too so I completely identify with what you are imagining. However, I don't want our concerns to stand in the way of the progress of technology.
In my case, I still get my television mostly from DISH, so I don't lean on broadband for much streaming video. BUT, if I was a cord cutter and I did NOT want to buy a higher tier from my broadband provider, I'd probably just keep doing what I'm doing in terms of streaming 1080p or 720p or SD, exactly as I do now. A 4K
TV wouldn't force you or I to only stream 4K. It would simply be an option... just like the options for the current
TV are generally 1080p, 720p or SD.
If I generally had some spare bandwidth under the cap, maybe big movie night would get to stream the 4K option instead of whatever I usually do.
And note: the companion rumor with 4K is h.265 instead of h.264. The oft-spun bit about h.265 is it requires about half the space of h.264 for the same video quality. Conceptually, that could mean that an h.265 4K movie might take up about the same amount of space as an h.264 1080p movie. Or if there's too much puffery in that claim, maybe the 4K movie would be only a little larger than a 1080p equivalent. The point is that even those of us with hard broadband caps might be able to enjoy more 4K than we expect with h.265 in the mix.
heaps of us are falling for it.
