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I'm in no hurry to rush out and buy into 4K, but if I were, I'd be pretty disappointed with the initial Fox titles. Aside from Maze Runner, they're all 2K upconverts, and three out of seven are missing their original 3D versions. Better colour and HDR need to go a long way to make up the...

Sure, IMAX is far superior to anything digital can offer yet. But I think an average 2K digital presentation is better than a typical projected 35mm release print the vast majority of the time - no gate weave, no dust, no scratches etc. That said, I still prefer film projection when it's done right.

Really? I'd argue it's the opposite. I think digital has improved the sound and picture quality of the average theatre, compared to 35mm projection, while making the great ones blander.

Given their lack of interest in releasing catalogue titles on BD, I wouldn't hold out much hope for UHD.

The Catch-22 being that all of those new blockbusters are only finished at 2K.

Aside from children's titles, I don't think the average person buys discs, period. The U.S. still has some disc rental options in Netflix and Redbox, but in Canada, Netflix is streaming only and Redbox has just shut down, so disc rental is effectively dead. I don't imagine the U.S. will be too...

They won't. There will be Casablanca, Oz, Gone with the Wind, The Exorcist and a handful of other titles that perpetually get re-released, and that'll be it.

I don't doubt there will be some benefit, but it's going to be an awfully tough sell. How noticeable is any of that going to be on the floor of Best Buy? How are you going to convince enough consumers to upgrade to make it a viable format?

That's one thing that's rarely mentioned - there's very little real 4K material available. If you look at the biggest films of the last few years, here's the actual breakdown: Guardians of the Galaxy - (2K) Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2K) The Lego Movie (2K) Transformers: Age of...

There are also a number of films only available in SD on DVD that have HD download/streaming options.

Well, if 4K blu-ray requires an internet connection for verification, then there's no difference. It may reside on a disc, but the content is still controlled by the distributer, who could conceivably make the disc unplayable.

I agree, but that doesn't mean 4K discs are likely to catch on.

The problem is that most people aren't interested in buying discs and never were. Much of the success of DVD can be attributed to an already established rental market, which is now effectively dead. People may have bought a few favourites, or children's titles, on DVD - maybe even the occasional...

1080p is very close to 2K. It's 1920x1080 and 2K is 2048x1536 - only about 3% difference.

That's the other issue. Look at all the whining and bitching that surrounds even the best blu-ray releases now. Can you imagine what that will be like when a $60 4K disc isn't up to snuff?

I'm not so sure about the early adopters, either. I switched from VHS to laserdisc as soon as I could afford to in my early-twenties, then made the jump to DVD, HD-DVD and blu-ray the moment they became available, but I'm not seeing much to tempt me into buying yet another format. I like the...