I still have people tell me that they can't tell the difference between blu-ray and dvd. ....
This is don't understand. I mean, the difference from DVD to Bluray, with the proper set up, is night and day. I was skeptical at first with Bluray too - I'm always thinking its some sort of industry gimmick to make more money
, which is probably is... But when i saw BD play in the stores on a proper 1080p display, i was amazed. People telling you they don't know the difference between DVD and BD aren't viewing it properly, aren't concerned with viewing quality, or just don't care because of the fear of switching over.
I believe the latter will be the case with 4K, especially since the majority of moviephiles just recently changed to BD in the last few years, or are even just changing now.
I'm excited to see the 4K quality, but the industry will really need to force this into the market and try to make BD obsolete for it to stick. But they haven't done so with 3D, and still, even DVD still exists.
Plus, with streaming video jumping leaps and bounds over the past couple years, like Netflix, Flixster, Vudu, etc., it doesn't' even compare to BD yet, even though they are both 1080p - I really believe the industry is jumping too fast to try and switch up media (although, it marketed as an upgraded BD, it may work. Don't forget, most of your BD players, if not all, are backwards compatable with DVD, CD, etc.)
As interesting as the quality is as a moviephile myself, I say let BD, and HD settle in more as being the real world "standard" IMO.
Again, as another member stated before, this conversation could be a bit over my head. Just my opinion.
I don think the the movie theaters my be able to take advantage of this tech, and maybe get more people into the theaters like the old days.
