Sony 4KTV - Anyone got one?

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Might be coming in a bit of money and thought I might treat myself to a new tv and I have a thing for Sony so I've seen that the 4KTV are almost reasonable. So it is really a fishing post to see if anyone has a KD49X8505 and has any comments good/bad about it.

I currently have 10yr old 32" 720p TV so I'm due an upgrade :o
 
IMO not worth buying and won't be for 3-8 years.

Get a 1080P screen for 1/4 of the price then upgrade again in 5-8 years would be how I would do it in your position.

Put it this way spending £2-4K now on a 4K tv or spend £1K now on 1080P then another £1-2K in 5-8 years would mean you have a far superior 4K tv (due to advances in tech) and you have saved yourself £1K because tv's get cheaper and cheaper every year, you would also then have 2 very good tv's also instead of a 4K tv which could possibly be riddled with early adoption issues.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
IMO not worth buying and won't be for 3-8 years.

Get a 1080P screen for 1/4 of the price then upgrade again in 5-8 years would be how I would do it in your position.

Put it this way spending £2-4K now on a 4K tv or spend £1K now on 1080P then another £1-2K in 5-8 years would mean you have a far superior 4K tv (due to advances in tech) and you have saved yourself £1K because tv's get cheaper and cheaper every year, you would also then have 2 very good tv's also instead of a 4K tv which could possibly be riddled with early adoption issues.
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The one he's looking at is 1.4k from JL, not 2-4k :p
 
Absolutely, You would pay the same money for a good 1080p of the same size so why not be first into the foray. Netflix has 4K stuff and you can get 4K 'on-line' as well.

Yes I know there's not much content at the moment but that will change.
 
Something has to give

If the 4k TV is the same as 1080p you are missing something.
I definitely wouldn't in this situation

If my TV broke tomorrow I'd get a 1080p plasma

I don't really want a new TV until oled 4k is reasonable
 
feriso said:
I'm due an upgrade :o
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I would only buy a 4k TV if it has version 2.0 HDMI sockets......;)

Version 2.0

HDMI 2.0, referred to by some manufacturers as HDMI UHD, was released on September 4, 2013.[156]

HDMI 2.0 increases the maximum TMDS per channel throughput from 3.4 Gbit/s to 6 Gbit/s which allows for a maximum total TMDS throughput of 18 Gbit/s.[156][157] This allows HDMI 2.0 to support 4K resolution at 60 frames per second (fps).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#Version_2.0
 
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chaparral said:
I would at lest wait till 4k TV's come with version 2.0 HDMI sockets......;)
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Sony X85 does? Certain Samsung models are upgradable via the evolution kit.

Edit: Also taken from the AVForums review of the X9: "Sony released new software, effectively updating one of the HDMI ports to the new 2.0 standard, which is certainly a good thing, but since they didn’t send us a HDMI 2.0 player, we can’t verify that it works. We do believe them, of course."
 
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If you bought an equivalent 1080p Sony 50 inch, what would you save? say £4-500? If the money you've come into covers it I'd get the 4K, just to play around with whats available now, it'll only get better. I'd see myself wishing I had bought the 4K, a year down the line if I didn't. There was certainly naff all 1080p content readily available when I got my TV for sure.

Unless you realistically think that £4-500 is better used on something else right now.
 
Kappa said:
If you bought an equivalent 1080p Sony 50 inch, what would you save? say £4-500? If the money you've come into covers it I'd get the 4K, just to play around with whats available now, it'll only get better. I'd see myself wishing I had bought the 4K, a year down the line if I didn't. There was certainly naff all 1080p content readily available when I got my TV for sure.

Unless you realistically think that £4-500 is better used on something else right now.
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Exactly - Im not sure the saving is really worth it over a decent 1080p

While 4k software isnt about that much right now, upscaled (by the tv) BR will be just as good (av forums compared BR disk to netflix 4k stream and there wasnt much in it either way - audio much better on BR, marginal video improvements on 4k), and within a year or so (compared to 5 + years for the life of the tv) there will be a dramatic improvement on 4k choices
 
why buy 4k now when 4k content is sparse. I would wait till 4k is widely available and 4k sets are the norm.

I prefer to wait to see how things do before being an early adopter.

DVD went mainstream, 1080p bluray went mainstream, will 4k go mainstream?
 
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I tried to find some reviews of the TV the OP is looking at but they aren't many and the ones that are around are on unfamiliar sites and aren't in depth or mention things like blacks much. I'd wait until some proper reviews surface tbh.

One common theme i've noticed though is them all being impressed with bluray content upscaled to 4k on the set, most of them saying it looks significantly better than Netflix's 4k House of Cards does.
 
beachBOYken said:
why buy 4k now when 4k content is sparse. I would wait till 4k is widely available and 4k sets are the norm.

I prefer to wait to see how things do before being an early adopter.

DVD went mainstream, 1080p bluray went mainstream, will 4k go mainstream?
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Teh answer to that is dont do it for its own sake, do it as part of a screen size upgrade as well and it will make more sense.

4k screens will go mainstream at some point its just a matter of when - just as 720p screens are now very hard if not impossible to find over a certain size, the same will be true in a couple of years of 1080p below ~50" imo (by then ecconomy of scale will have hit the manufacturers and there will be little point in producing 1080p screens anymore for them
 
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