I was too late to BD. Am I too early to 4K? (Number of releases)

[gkolb]

Originally Posted by trekky76

Couple of years ago there was no UHD on the market. Just saying. And HDR10, unlike DV, is open source. Samsung does not hold a license. DV may be releasing all they want but I can't see many consumers buying that stuff no matter how technically superior it may be. The price will matter and UHD already is overpriced. I for one will not pay even a cent more for any DV stuff! Now I'm sure some people are holding out for 16K with $100 a disc but hey, it's your prerogative.

I guess what you don't get is that everyone will buy the DV 4K disc because the HDR10 base layer will play on ALL the HDR only sets, and the DV metadata layer will be there for those with DV enabled players and displays.

There won't be two different 4K discs being stocked or sold. Just one version.

[trekky76]

Yes but for the current price? Are you really that naive to think so?
Will Universal just give away their share to pay the royalties?

Originally Posted by gkolb

I guess what you don't get is that everyone will buy the DV 4K disc because the HDR10 base layer will play on ALL the HDR only sets, and the DV metadata layer will be there for those with DV enabled players and displays.

There won't be two different 4K discs being stocked or sold. Just one version.

[Leterface]

Originally Posted by trekky76

Yes but for the current price? Are you really that naive to think so?
Will Universal just give away their share to pay the royalties?

Despicable Me is advertised here at £24.99 - I think its pretty same priced as other UHDs. I think the UHD prices have so much "air" in them the studios can easily just keep the same prices with DV if they choose. As matter of fact I think DV could at best only help the studios and distributors to keep the ridiculous over pricing.

[Chordata]

Sorry....what is DV?

[StingingVelvet]

Originally Posted by MrMahn

I'd rather have the technically superior format.

How massive a difference are we talking though, especially with HDR10 now incorporating metadata? I doubt the vast majority of consumers care at all, let alone care enough to push one over the other. I feel like HDR10 is better for the format's long-term chances because it's less expense for the studios, which means more content.

[JoeDeM]

Originally Posted by Chordata

Sorry....what is DV?

It's Dolby Vision, an enhancement layer for displays and players that can decode it.

[Leterface]

Originally Posted by StingingVelvet

How massive a difference are we talking though, especially with HDR10 now incorporating metadata? I doubt the vast majority of consumers care at all, let alone care enough to push one over the other. I feel like HDR10 is better for the format's long-term chances because it's less expense for the studios, which means more content.

I believe technically HDR metadata in HDR10 or in DV should be a massive difference, but I think we must see it before we can tell how it works in real life, example how HDR plus works on Samsung quantum dot LCD TVs or how DV works on LG OLED's. But I don't think the implementation of metadata will make much extra expenses or then the systems would be pretty much doomed to fail before launch and those early DV announcements atleast IMO shows this is not the case.