4K Blu-ray content on the horizon?

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by ZoetMB

That's because an increase of 32% means nothing when you're starting out with a small number.

who cares, increasing is increasing, that is how small numbers become really large ones. Let me ask you something simple in June of `11997 what do you thing DVDs penetration was? it was also very small but eventually it did become virtually 100%.

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.)

funny how you did not have an issue bringing in the article when you wanted to spin it as "see only 17% of people bought a big screen TV so that means most people don't have a home big enough to have a 50"+ TV". But because I pointed out something that you don't like (that it included how that number is significantly higher then last year), all of a sudden it is not good enough for you any more since it directly contradicts what you are saying.

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.

display sizes in homes have grown since the first TV hit the market, and I agree it is hard to consider a 50" a big screen today but that was used in the article and it is as good a cut off as any. What you seem to fail to realize is that size is not fixed, for the price of a 65" today 5 years ago it might have been a 50" and 10 years ago it might have been a 42". Which is one of the reason that it is easier to buy a bigger TV today and people are doing it.

a few pages back I pointed out the THX document ( recommended screen diagonal= .84*seating distance) and you said, that might be proper but it does not mean that everyone will have it. I agree not everyone will properly see content in their home (especially in all situations) but the issue is that you fail to realize that there is a big difference between proper and what most homes have now as their main screen and that is not because they can’t have fit a properly set-up TV in their homes or that they don’t want a properly set-up TV in their homes but there are other reasons (don’t have the $, don’t know what is out there.......) and those brake down over time and people as a whole are moving (be it at a slow pace) to properly watching TV at home.