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Originally Posted by ruff
Welcome to the future. You are a couple of years too early. Massive overkill for 99.9 percent of the monitors online. Besides isn't 5K the next biggie?
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Based on the feedback in this thread it looks like I have some tweaking to do for our 4K delivery. That being said, in your comment you're thinking like a webmaster, not an average consumer. Sony, Samsung, Sharp, etc have all done the hard work for us. With their advertising campaigns, they're convincing the public that they need 4K and based on the research I've done it looks like 4K is really taking off and that's in spite of the lack of content currently available. Just walk into any Best Buy and you'll see the vast majority of their TV's are 4K and they're practically giving away HD TVs
Now that the major TV/Monitor manufacturers have convinced the general public they need 4K, you can call it a sales gimmick if you like but if a site "A" has 4K content and site "B" has only HD content, all other things being equal the consumer is going for site A, period. Even if there is no visible difference between the content the consumer has already been brainwashed to believe they need 4K.
I don't think I'm a couple of years early, I just think I need to tweak some settings on the encoding to resolve some of the issues noted in this thread. Was hoping ********** would chime in on the bitrate settings we're currently using or offer any of his knowledge of video to help improve what we're delivering.