What are you talking about? Being mastered in 4K does not mean it is being shown in 4K.
If people want to grossly overpay for 4K TV's now, let them do it because in 5 years time I will have a 4K TV (only because there will be nothing else offered) that will be much better in features and picture quality and I will be paying less than half the price. Then we may see a 4K BR player and discs (maybe).
What we definately will not be seeing is standard cable in 4K where almost everyone does the majority of their TV viewing. That is at least 20 years away. There is no way cable companies are gonna overhaul thier entire infrastructure to handle the required bandwidth so that 10% of their customers who have 70+ TV's and sit 6 feet away can see a difference. It's not even debatable at this point. 1080P has been around for about a decade and have we heard anything about cable even offering 1080P? Yeah, I didn't think so.
You can waste your money now on a 4K TV, just be prepared that you will be on your 2nd or 3rd one when you will actually be watching more than 50% of your content in 4K. If you got cash to burn then go for it.
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