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If you consider 5% penetration 'mainstream'
Samsung's Director of European Business Development, Vassilis Seferidis, believes Ultra HD will be a mainstream reality by 2017.
At the Futuresource Entertainment Summit 2013 held last week, Seferidis drew natural comparisons to the launch of HD where operators began launching services when market penetration reached around 5 percent.
“Our estimation is that ultra-high definition will become mainstream by the year 2017. The question is whether operators will wait for penetration to reach this five per cent level before introducing channels. There are good indications that will start earlier as well.”
Seferidis noted that a number of operators were already experimenting with U-HD production, describing it as “the natural next step” for resolution.
“Ultra-high definition is a market that's going to happen, basically driven by consumer demand, but also by operators and manufacturers, who want to differentiate their products. We expect this will happen by 2017.”
So that's, prospectively, a four year wait for those early adopters before there's 4K content in any meaningful volume to watch. Maybe he ought to have been a bit more bullish, given Samsung are just about to launch their 'affordable' and domestic friendly 4K TVs.
Source: Advanced-Television
Samsung's Director of European Business Development, Vassilis Seferidis, believes Ultra HD will be a mainstream reality by 2017.
At the Futuresource Entertainment Summit 2013 held last week, Seferidis drew natural comparisons to the launch of HD where operators began launching services when market penetration reached around 5 percent.
“Our estimation is that ultra-high definition will become mainstream by the year 2017. The question is whether operators will wait for penetration to reach this five per cent level before introducing channels. There are good indications that will start earlier as well.”
Seferidis noted that a number of operators were already experimenting with U-HD production, describing it as “the natural next step” for resolution.
“Ultra-high definition is a market that's going to happen, basically driven by consumer demand, but also by operators and manufacturers, who want to differentiate their products. We expect this will happen by 2017.”
So that's, prospectively, a four year wait for those early adopters before there's 4K content in any meaningful volume to watch. Maybe he ought to have been a bit more bullish, given Samsung are just about to launch their 'affordable' and domestic friendly 4K TVs.
Source: Advanced-Television