• Jason Perlow:
  @jsnell @harrymccracken We went through a DTV transition not long ago. Unless 4K ends up in broadcast and cable, nobody is buying.

• Harry McCracken:
  @jperlow @jsnell It won’t matter until there’s lots and lots of content, but I’m patient.

• Jason Snell:
  @harrymccracken @jperlow Patience is the key. Over the long haul, will 4K be around? Almost certainly. But I wonder if it’s 10 years away.

• Harry McCracken:
  @jsnell @jperlow I didn’t buy an HDTV until nearly 20 years after I saw my first demo. I can wait for it to be good, cheap & available.

• Jason Snell:
  @harrymccracken @jperlow Back to my original point – this feels like something that’s 10 years out, not 5.

@jsnell @harrymccracken @jperlow 4K is the definite future—witness “window environments” in SF films. Affordability is the issue.

• Jason Snell:
  @jeffporten @harrymccracken @jperlow The future yes, the near-term consumer-electronics future, I think not. 10 years maybe.

@jsnell @harrymccracken @jperlow I don’t disagree, but I’ve been burned too often to set a number on the timeline.

• Jason Perlow:
  @jeffporten @jsnell @harrymccracken not the future for broadcast and until gigabit to the house is commoditized, pure fantasy for subscriber

• Jason Snell:
  @jeffporten @harrymccracken @jperlow I hate setting numbers too, but when I look at 4K I have a hard time seeing rapid consumer update.

• Jason Perlow:
  @jsnell @jeffporten @harrymccracken the infrastructure challenges alone are daunting let alone the component costs

• Jason Perlow:
  @jsnell @jeffporten @harrymccracken 45MB per UNCOMPRESSED FRAME http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/4k-di-on-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo …

• Jason Perlow:
  @jsnell @jeffporten @harrymccracken “With 4K data, and files over 40 megabytes a frame — that’s 800 megabytes a second”

• Jason Perlow:
  @jsnell @jeffporten @harrymccracken even compressed with artifacts, you’ll still need like 200MB per second. PER SECOND.