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Originally Posted by GatorB
Nope. No ultra HD content. Networks and cable channels have spent tens of millions upgrading to HD. They're not going to spend millions more in just a few years to upgrade to ultra HD. Not to mention broadcast network can't even handle 1080p so they certainly can't handle ultra HD. Cable and satellite companies have limited bandwidth so unless they only want to offer 1/8 the channels they have now they can't do ultra HD either. No ultra HD online steaming either. Most people don't have connections fast enough to handle it and won't for the foreseeable future. At least not in the US. Even if they did, bandwidth caps that ISPs are now enforcing will make ultra HD useless. All those companies that spent BILLIONS developing blu-ray are not in a hurry to go to ultra HD format. They are still trying to make money on blu-ray. So if there is no content then no one will buy these things.
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Also, look at the production end of UltraHD. It's already a pain in the ass to post-produce effects and edit for 1080p. Just imagine going 8 times bigger. The amount of hard drive space and computing power needed would be incredible.
As a digital animator, I'm still just getting into rendering in HD, which takes up so much more time. Now 3D is getting popular, which means rendering double frames(one for each eye) -- and they eventually want to spring this UltraHD shit, which will be crazy to render and display during After Effects processing.
We're just moving way too fast.