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mhhf1ve
9/10/2016 8:27:06 PM
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Re: Never felt more behind the curve...
JohnBarnes: Fortunately, there are still some organizations like iFixit around to help people try to repair things in the modern age. Unfortunately, we also have the DMCA that hampers tinkerers from legally trying to do their hacking hobbies.
dcawrey
9/12/2016 5:13:28 PM
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Re: Observations
Movies, live events and special shows. That's where 4K is going to do well as a content platform in the home. Sounds to me like AT&T has already got this figured out - it's just making sure enough 4K is in the production pipeline.
Adi
9/13/2016 5:20:13 AM
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@dcawrey - yes, I think that's ususally the challenge with new services. The device and network may be able to handle them (though I'm not sure that's true in the case of 4K yet), but the lack of content becomes a bottleneck. So you have to start building libraries well n advance since so much TV content is second run.
elizabethv
9/25/2016 1:32:34 AM
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Re: Never felt more behind the curve...
Lol @ JohnBarnes - I suppose in most cases you're probably right. Credit Cards are the way they want us to pay for all of those throw-away electronics everyone "has to have." Meanwhile, my family has an old 15 inch TV/VCR hooked up in our playroom with a myriad of VHS tapes available for my kids to watch at their choosing. Ha ha, I'm getting the next generation to watch VHS. Lol. Fight the power! (I will in fact be very sad when that TV dies. My friend, who loves VHS, says the only makers of VHS players anymore are going to stop.) C'est la vie.
freehe
9/25/2016 6:16:58 PM
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Re: Never felt more behind the curve...
@JohnBarnes, great insight. Thanks for your input.
freehe
9/25/2016 6:19:45 PM
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AT&T 4K TV
I don't think the estimates for 2020 are realistic. Adoption takes time. Consumers have not fully embraced HD TV yet.
Who is the target audience for 4k TV? What are the benefits of 4k TV other than watching seasonal or yearly sporting events? Why should consumers switch to 4K TV versus HD, UHD and all the other different types of tv configurations?
JohnBarnes
9/25/2016 7:20:23 PM
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Re: AT&T 4K TV
freehe,
Those are indeed the classic marketing questions. But in a world of rapid replacement where the cost of 4K relative to HD is plunging, replacement will be biased for 4K, and eventually it will become standard.
There was nothing wrong with Betamax, either; black and white TV still worked; and there were still plenty of people around who had the arm strength and skill to crank-start a car rather than use an automatic starter. But if nearly all of what is bought new has feature X', then as the older ones with X get thrown away, X' becomes standard -- and that's effectively mandatory. No choice required (or cared about).
JohnBarnes
9/25/2016 7:25:30 PM
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Re: AT&T 4K TV
freehe,
As to the second point, a 4K set will play HD in HD (just as a color set would play black and white programs), and 4K in 4K. An HD set will play everything in HD. Thus the 4K user gains some marginal advantage. The question is more whether the advantage is as big as the General Motors advantages over Ford (electric starters and automatic transmissions meant you could drive without having to learn how to work a clutch, and you didn't have to have forearms like Popeye -- but if you could drive a Model T you could drive a Chevy, and hte reverse wasn't necessarily true), or as small as the Quadrophonic Sound advantage over hi-fidelity stereo turned out to be (does anyone remember quad sound?)
JohnBarnes
9/25/2016 7:33:31 PM
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Re: AT&T 4K TV
Freehe,
AHA!
I clicked on the link to the forecast in the main article, and discovered my initial suspicion was right -- in fact, even righter. A household is counted as having 4K if it has even one 4K device. Right now most 50" and bigger screen TVs have 4K as standard, and manufacturers are planning to put that into smaller sets soon, so that very quickly 40" sets are going to have 4K as standard. And North American households buy TVs with big screens, and tend to buy a new TV every couple of years on the average due to breakage and household fission and fusion. So 4K becoming standard on smaller sets, plus the ridiculously high replacement rate in North America, probably means there will be a 4K-capable set in a majority of homes within that 4 year span.
Stupid and gullible as we may all be, that's where we're headed!
mpouraryan
9/25/2016 8:29:19 PM
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Re: AT&T 4K TV
There is no question that those who somehow do not embrace and recognize change do so to their detriment. But, this fascination with technology has to have its' limits--and it is up to us. We have to be in control.
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