4K Blu-ray content on the horizon?

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Originally Posted by Anthony P

PS also you quoted the article but yet you missed the most important part in your zeal to support your point "the fact that sales of big screen TVs, 50 inches or bigger, increased more than 32%"

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That's because an increase of 32% means nothing when you're starting out with a small number. This reminds me of people who push vinyl LP. Sales of vinyl increased in 2011 by 36% and fans use this to argue that "vinyl is coming back". But it's still only 0.2% of all music units and 1.2% of all music long-form units. It's a rounding error. (And I'm a vinyl fan - still have 400 vinyl albums in my living room. But facts are facts.)

Furthermore, it was a biased article written more like a press release than researched journalism that emphasized a number representing a minority as a majority. Sets over 50" being 17% of the market is nothing to brag about. (To tell you the truth, I don't even believe that number is possible. I believe it has to be a larger percentage of HD sales. Unless computer monitors are being counted in that number, driving down the average size.)

But even though I think the market share of sets over 50" is actually larger than that article indicated, I still don't believe that the market for really large sizes 65" and above is going to be a large market for all the reasons I indicated. Even if the economy was better, I don't think it's going to be a large market. Having said that, I still support the development of 4K technology for the home.