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Have you bought a 4K set yet? Do you see yourself getting one in 2017? (1 Viewer)

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Comments are welcome but before you add thoughts please answer the Q before you begin: Yes, No, Not sure

Me: Yes, I expect I will buy my first 4K set on or before Black Friday. It will be my office TV and PC/game system monitor, not my primary viewing device. I don't expect to replace my Plasma or PJ until mid 2016 at earliest, will wait for UHD Blu for that. And I want to be sure anything I buy has HDR support including the first one.
 

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No, over the last 4 years I've purchased 3 Plasma displays so I'm set at all 3 HT locations in my home. However, when I move to my future retirement location in the next year or sooner, such a display will be on my radar.
 

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Nope.


No long term plans too. It would be of no benefit to me anyway. And as others have said, odds are there will be little content for probably quite a long while (if at all for some sources) so I see no need to toss money down the drain now or down the road.
 

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No and no.


I got a 50" plasma in 2012, and an Epson 5030 projector last summer - I'm not planning on upgrading either anytime soon. I'm content to wait and see how 4K adoption works out and how much content is made available in that format. So many modern films that at first glance would seem like great candidates for 4K were actually finished with 2K digital intermediates, so I'm not sure that enough content exists in that format right now to make it worthwhile for me to be an early adopter.


If 1080p televisions are phased out and replaced with 4K sets, when my current set dies I'd then get a 4K. But I'm more of a content-driven guy rather than a format-driven guy, and right now the content just isn't there.
 

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No, for three reasons:


1. I'm still very happy with my 2011 model Panasonic plasma. Vibrant, bright, natural image quality with contrast and black levels that far surpass even the best LCD screens available today.


2. Almost all of the current 4K TVs are LCDs ("LEDs"), and I have absolutely no desire to downgrade from plasma to LCD if I can avoid it. 4K OLED seems quite desirable, but only LG make 4K OLED TVs right now and I swore off any and every LG product ten years ago.


3. There is no real 4K content, and I predict UHD BD will be DOA, so there's no pressing need to upgrade to 4K. Even for gaming, a 4K monitor is problematic as no single GPU can provide decent framerates in the latest games at 4K resolution, and an SLI/CrossFire configuration has numerous issues.


So basically unless my current TV dies, I'm waiting for things to settle in the 4K realm. In all likelihood though, I'll only go 4K if I can afford a decent (non-LG) 4K OLED.
 

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'Yes. Sometime before Christmas -65"


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No! Not for quite a while. I'm still very happy with my Epson EH-TW9000 and my Oppo 103, and will wait for everything to settle down, and prices to come down to Earth, and for more choices to be available.


When I do make the change, I most likely will go for an affordable but good quality 4K projector, and upgrade to a Receiver with Dolby Atmos and DTS X.
 

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Yes, buying a set in the next 2 weeks, probably a Sony 65 inch 4K. Not sure which one. I love Sony products.


I am checking the features and setup right now. Have to replace some other things. This is for the bedroom, which has a 27inch JVC NTSC set right now that I am moving. [
I am adverse to replacing things that still work but I am moving the JVC.]


Will also be buying a new UHD Blu-ray player when they are available.


I am very conscious of quality issues and always feel I can see and hear the difference.
 

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No and No.


There's very little 4K content out there. Much less 4K with 10-bit color and HDR. If I ever do go 4K, it will probably be a projector. Not a TV. And it will include all the features of UHD Blu-Ray standard, assuming UHD Blu-Ray doesn't tank.
 

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No & maybe. My plasma has kicked I think. If I can't get the power supply fixed I'll look at 4k. Honestly nothing I see looks as good as my plasma. Progress indeed!
 

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No.


I started off with a pear projection, then I went with a LCD with 120 refresh rate. then I got the panasonic 2010 plasma with 3d. but now I am going with a projector. should have it soon.

I can get a bigger size picture with a projector then with a UHD.


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Also no and no.

I'm more than happy with what I have now. Doing the wait and see this time. Technologies are improving all the time. I'm sure that if I live long enough, we will have absolute perfection. But until such a time, 1080p will suffice.
 

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No. My Panny plasma is only a 720p set but the picture quality is outstanding. Down the road when we buy a new home and I set up a new HT in it, I will be putting in 1080p projector and 100+" screen. The plasma will then go in the living room. The only thing wrong with my plasma is while I was out of town on business a few years ago, my wife left the tv on with a 4x3 formatted program running for over 8 hours a day for about 10 days. After that, there is definite image retention from the side bars which were on screen all day and on bright scenes, this can be seen.
 

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Yes, already bought one last year, Sharp 70". I love it, even though I have no content to watch on it, I still consider it an upgrade over my other HD screens. Thinking about buying another one, to replace one of my two other HD screens.
 

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