Is 4K a game changer?

[Nightopian]

I think what others have said about only future titles and popular money making titles will be released / converted to 4K sounds about right.

If you compare the titles released on DVD since it's release in 1997 until now, there are over 250,000+ titles. Compared with Bluray which since 2006 has around 10,000 titles. As members have said it takes time. I don't think even Bluray will even get all the titles available on DVD in it's lifetime either...which means a 4K medium (which they are currently working on right now) will be lucky to see even half of what Bluray has right now.

4K will be phased out too eventually. Japan already has 8k running. Seems technology is advancing so quickly, we can't keep up. You basicially have to draw the line yourself.

I was quite content with DVD on my 55" TV and I still think they look fine. I only made the jump to Bluray when I built my new home with a dedicated theatre a couple of years ago. A DVD looks like absolute crap on a 160" screen. I was forced to start collecting my movies all over again on Bluray just for that reason. Will I start all over again with 4K? No. As I suspect most of you who have a large Bluray collection already will do the same. I will however add new movies to my collection in 4K if they are available and only if I know they were shot in 4K to begin with but I won't rebuy my movies...there are still a lot of older movies in my Bluray collection which don't look as good as others. It still comes down to source material and the conversion. Not all Bluray's look "FullHD".

The question is, how big will screens get? How much space do you have in your home to accommodate a big screen? Because it's only then will you see the real benefit of 4K. Will you see any benefit of 4K sitting 4m away from a 60" screen? Probably not. The majority of commercial cinema's are using 2k projectors...

http://www.cnet.com/news/why-4k-tvs-are-stupid/

But yeah, for me it's not a question of whether it will take over or not because I know eventually it will be the standard. For me it's more a question of, how long will it last and do I really need it? The shorter the lifespan, the less movies will be available...so should we give up on Bluray? I personally don't think you could even if you wanted to...