Netflix - "Expect 4K Streaming Within a Year or 2"

[GoldenGlove]

Netflix Chief Product Officer: expect 4K streaming within a year or two | The Verge

It's an interview with the Chief Product Officer from Netflix... but here's the quote regarding 4K...

Q: You don't think this push for the 4K format and ultra high-definition by the film studios and TV manufacturers is an attempt to wall out streaming services like Netflix? That's a lot of info to stream.

A: On the contrary. Streaming will be the best way to get the 4K picture into people's homes. That's because of the challenges involved in upgrading broadcast technologies and the fact that it isn't anticipated within the Blu-ray disc standard. Clearly we have much work to do with the compression and decode capability, but we expect to be delivering 4K within a year or two with at least some movies and then over time become an important source of 4K. 4K will likely be streamed first before it goes anywhere else. To that point, our own original House of Cards was shot in 4K. It's being mastered in full HD, but the raw footage, or a good chunk of it, was shot in 4K, and we hope to have some House of Cards 4K encodes later this year.

The 4K movement might be here faster than we anticipated brehs.

 

[MikelArteta]

Band with breh

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[nalej]

so glad I never bought a blu ray player and a bunch of disks to fill up my room again. I can already stream everything a hd and it's only gonna get better

 

[King Sun]

courtdog loses again

 

[Rekkapryde]

I'm callin

ISPs gonna have to step it up and give us faster speed and more data allowance. And aint nobody got no damn 4K TV anyway.

 

[GoldenGlove]

I'm callin

ISPs gonna have to step it up and give us faster speed and more data allowance. And aint nobody got no damn 4K TV anyway.

Maybe they know something WEEEE don't know breh

 

[hex]

The limiting factor isn't the availability of 4K content. There could be 4K content coming out the wood work, the problem is ISPs and the price of 4K TVs, neither of which seem to be improving in a year or two.

Fred.

 

[Loose]

Isps ain't having that

 

[Ill-Mind]

 

[satam55]

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[satam55]

so glad I never bought a blu ray player and a bunch of disks to fill up my room again. I can already stream everything a hd and it's only gonna get better

Man don't fall for that cyse. I'm still saying 4K will never be a mainstream home format. It's a format meant to viewed in movie theaters and most movie theaters are still only projecting in 2K. It'll only be videophiles with money to burn who have a dedicated theater rooms which is set-up to use a projector, that will benefit from 4K. I actually laugh at the thought of 4K TVs because most people don't buy TVs that will even be close to large enough to take advantage of a 4K image. You might as well just get a Projector instead.

 

[GoldenGlove]

Man don't fall for that cyse. I'm still saying 4K will never be a mainstream home format. It's format meant to viewed in movie theaters and most movie theaters are still only projecting in 2K. It'll only be videophiles with money to burn who have a dedicated theater rooms which is set-up to use a projector, that will benefit from 4K. I actually laugh at the thought of 4K TVs because most people don't buy TVs that will even be close to large enough to take advantage of a 4K image. You might as well just get a Projector instead.

This seems to be the general consensus towards the format.

Why do you think all of this info is coming out about it though? Sony has confirmed that it will be be compatible with PS4, now you have Netflix saying it's going to be on there service within 2 years.

Could things happen faster than we think? I don't know, but I just find it strange that something that will have a very limited market is being talked about so soon like this.

 

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

Netflix like
Comcast like
Best Buy, Sony, Sharpe, Philips, LG, Samsung like
PS4 like
iTunes like
Amazon Prime like
Blockbuster like

Consumers like when they look at the increased cost of streaming media.

 

[newarkhiphop]

google fiber expansion to a major city coming soon

 

[satam55]

This seems to be the general consensus towards the format.

Why do you think all of this info is coming out about it though? Sony has confirmed that it will be be compatible with PS4, now you have Netflix saying it's going to be on there service within 2 years.

Could things happen faster than we think? I don't know, but I just find it strange that something that will have a very limited market is being talked about so soon like this.

Sony is the only company that is really pushing for 4K in the home. I have no idea why they are pushing for it so hard, though. It doesn't really make sense as a mainstream home format. It's kind of funny that Sony decided to completely skip 2K and push 4K instead.