Note that Samsung did not posit that these screens would be made for the "home" Engadget did. The use for these panels is "very" clear to anyone who follows movie production. 1080p is the standard for cameras now but with Red One www.red.com and other cameras delivering 4k recording for under 30k we're seeing a shift to acquiring content at 4k resolution and then delivering the output at the appropriate resolution. No they will not be inexpensive and you will not be buying movies at 4k rez for a while if ever. There really is no need for 4k display for consumers for the near future. 4k is a good archival rez but you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between it and 1080p on consumer playback devices.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Note that Samsung did not posit that these screens would be made for the "home" Engadget did. The use for these panels is "very" clear to anyone who follows movie production. 1080p is the standard for cameras now but with Red One www.red.com and other cameras delivering 4k recording for under 30k we're seeing a shift to acquiring content at 4k resolution and then delivering the output at the appropriate resolution. No they will not be inexpensive and you will not be buying movies at 4k rez for a while if ever. There really is no need for 4k display for consumers for the near future. 4k is a good archival rez but you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between it and 1080p on consumer playback devices.