You could have mentioned 16k dude for all we care.

The following article was written in 1998 and tried to predict the future of HDTV by a research team. Not a guy on his computer who still uses the word 'n00b'.

Yet still they got it wrong.

http://hdtvprofessor.com/HD...

4k is the future, followed by 8k.
3D was not a point of discussion at CES 2013 because it is now a standard which many of the TVs at CES obviously had. 3DTVs are already in every consumer electronics store in the developed world.
Remember CES 2005? We were showing off 1080p TVs that would set you back $5000 2 years later everyone was getting them for 1000 bucks.

Edit: Samsung, Sony, LG... you really think none of them will push for 4k content and support?

New consoles are coming out within a year how can you be sure they wont offer 4k video playback and minigames?

And you think Sony with all its movie studios is making 4k TVs and is not getting ready to release 4k bluray players and disks?

Please answer my questions.

Increased resolutions don't "fail", they become a given over time.

I doubt they could jump straight to 8K support as you could see from the article I'm doubtful of 4K TV being supported properly. Its HD all over again, we wasn't ready for it a while back yet other countries such as Japan were. If 4K is supported sometime soon, I just don't see it gaining the support in the UK and USA at least. Lets just wait and see what happens anyway haha.

people didn't have that much money to throw around when plasma/LCD/LED TVs hit the market, which were all about that expensive as well.

the thing people aren't grasping is that the price of those TVs won't be that high forever, and new TV tech is always ridiculous when it's first introduced.

Hint: Brand new technology is rarely ever meant for the average Joe. The rich and the businesses get new technology first....that's how it usually works.

Very well said, the OLED point was the icing on the cake! The only time this will be aimed at the mass market is when it is affordable and has an infrastructure to support it. In my opinion foreign countries such as Japan are more likely to adapt this technology quicker than us.

I agree. There are other great technologies out there that these companies can perfect. OLED was the tech we were hearing about before 3D. What happened to it? Let the current HD sets get adopted at a greater rate first. TV was around forever in black and white. Then we got color. Color television was around forever and companies just perfected all their designs.

I would love to see thin OLED 3D smart TV's. 4k can wait. Hell, console games barely push out 720p resolutions and this is the main market, besides movies, that pushes the television tech.

Agreed... In reference to Japan... A fair number of people love to use the "Japan has it so why can't we?" argument. For one Japan is a relatively small country so it allows them to be far more agile when updating their infrastructures. In the US and other large area nations that kind of change does not happen, mostly due to policies and logistics.

People love a cheap TV!