Concern over 4k and replacing

[mjbethancourt]

Originally Posted by KRW1

4k is definitely coming and it's going to be huge. I don't know where we get this idea that progress is suddenly going to stop now when it hasn't for the last 100 years.

Who said anything about progress stopping? Laserdisc was a niche format, and it didn't catch on with the mass-market... that wasn't progress stopping, that was one particular product not catching on, while other similar products did, because they launched with better timing and support regarding the consumer market. That is what is being said now: not that blu-ray is the end of the line, but rather that the market will not shift to adopt a 4k standard in the immediate future. Who knows, maybe 4k gets leapfrogged by something better when the market is finally ready for a major format shift. This "progress stopping" rhetoric is a straw-man argument that undermines your own position.

Originally Posted by KRW1

It's coming and it won't be niche.

You don't know that. That's just a guess. Don't confuse your own enthusiasm for the disposition of the entire consumer market. Show me 50 million 4k TV sets in American homes in the next few years, and I'll say your exuberance was right. I'd bet real money that it's not happening for at least another 7 years, probably longer.