4K Blu-ray content on the horizon?

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

If you’re talking about the online article posted last December, yes, I’m familiar with it and, in fact, it was previously referenced either in the Club Penton thread awhile ago by DenonCI, or in one of the ‘4k’ proper threads we have here on the forum.

That article just scratches the surface as to the magnitude of the 4k Revolution. It will take some time, but 4k is going to be ubiquitous, as it is the future for motion picture capture, theatrical presentation and television…for all types of exhibition. Bandwidth won’t be a humongous hurdle because advanced codecs will enable files to get smaller even though resolution will increase.

4k will be one of the enabling agents contributing to the reduction of broadcast as broadband becomes more popular in the future because the display technology will turn the television into a computer and the computer into a television. HBOgo.com, in the future, will become more popular than HBO……and HBO knows it. ESPN.com, more popular than ESPN, and on and on, down the line.

Already, “ATSC 2.0 contemplates the marriage of broadcasting and the Internet” (http://www.atsc.org/cms/) but, with time, one of these ‘partners will become dominant with 4k being the flower girl or Maid of Honor, so-to-speak, in the ceremonial process. Given the recent introduction of the Sony F65 (a true 4k camera), the establishment of the compact sized Red Epic and the demos of consumer 4k displays by more than one manufacturer at the last CES, this essentially represents the first year that the *industry-as-a-whole* has taken 4k seriously. In several weeks at the upcoming NAB expect to see some 4k exhibition stuff with people pushing the envelope like vendor(s) demo-ing real time 4K video streaming with H.264 codec….with 4K 10 bit RAW as the original source.

4kBD will just be one component of the 4k Revolution and, as the physical media home deliverable, will offer the best quality to consumers.

Penton-man, could you explain the bit in bold in more detail please? I don't quite follow!