Been watching with a tiny bit of interest at all the movie providers bringing on UHD.
Just a tiny bit becuase I have a UHD TV nor any immediate plans to get one. I have Sky but not even Sky HD.
What interests me is bandwidth - in theory UHD needs 4x that of HD.
But I appreciate that all the HD providers use compression - I don't think any of them show true HD, Sky don't even support 1080P.
But regardless of that, UHD will need significantly more bandwidth and today I sometimes see HD struggle to stream.
I pay a fair old wack for Sky Fibre which gives me an actual 37Mbps download - well it does if I measure with a high availability site like speedtest.net. But in real use it is quite different. I've had it for quite a few years and to begin with it was great - it would handle Amazon streaming with ease. But I have noticed as the years have gone by, and presumably more and more people are accessing the same sites with good bandwidth connections, that my streaming has become less perfect.
I can still mostly stream HD movies from Amazon but more and more frequently, I find that I will encounter some stuttering.
So if I can't always guarantee that I can stream HD, how will I be able to reliable stream something with 4x the detail.
I see that Amzon are now letting you download - is that going to be their get out of jail card.
And if the Sky satellite bandwidth can't even handle 1080P, how is it going to do UHD - will it fall back on internet streaming/downloads.
Cheers,
Nigel