BillieCassin Sep 05, 2015 @krismate



I think you mistake most posts you are referring to as pejorative or uniformed against UHD are really just a true customer apathy toward the format. Yes, you have a key group of folks who are all jazzed up to all heck about the chance to basically upgrade/replace their entire systems, yet again, and that's great for you guys. Have your fun.



It's not that folks are so much "uninformed" but simply don't have a use for it, really - it's interesting to watch/read about it playing out, but many of us have reached our threshold for image quality (and that's folks at a Blu-ray site, for cryin' out loud - and look how many people even here just aren't buying into this or don't plan to). Just like a good half + of the consumer public doesn't give a fig about Blu-ray, this is going to continue to happen - less and less people are going to care as image quality gets bigger and bigger.



It's like consumer cameras - basically, unless you are a professional photographer and buying an SLR, "megapixels" is pretty meaningless to most people because once they got into the double-digits, it all kind of blurs and just about anything you pick up is "good enough" in that respect. Same for computer monitors. The only ones who care about resolution are hard-core gamers, and even then they are more about refresh now. At a certain point, the quality gains are rather low on the list of what makes a good product or not.



What I find interesting are all the folks that just see this as a "natural progression" that will replace Blu-ray or phase out DVD (I keep seeing people saying that one - what the heck are they talking about? No one is going to start caring about Blu-ray or UHD if they have been fine with DVD all this time and still are). This is a off-shoot product that is more akin to SACD which will be lucky to make Laserdisc penetration levels. That doesn't mean you can't enjoy it - but just don't expect everyone else to share in your delusions that some great savior has come, because most people are going to be "meh" at most.