OPINION : One of the things that most irritate me about the current state of play surrounding 4 K is that it ’s not nearly as prominent as it should be .
It ’s been nigh ten years since the first 4 K TVs rolled off the forum line into people ’s household , and message is abundant in 4K. Shame it does n’t necessarily finger all that easy to get .
It ’s increasingly being hoarded behind more expensive price tiers , used as a carrot by the likes of Disney , Netflix , andMaxstreaming service , or Sky and TNT Sports to tempt people into paying more . It ’s getting old to pay for something that should be the measure .
You look at8 K ’s strugglesand it ’s principally down to there not being a sight of native 8 K content to watch over on these TVs . It ’s not specially lure to be sell on an 8 K TV with the agate line that it ’ll make 4 K subject look better than it does on a 4 cat valium television set , especially when people are being asked to pay a further premium for 4K.
So it ’s with involvement that news show popped up that France is bet to direct the way in institute 4 honey oil to consumer according to reports from theUltraHDForumandFlatpanelsHD . It ’s outlandish to me that it ’s taken so long for this to happen.4 K TVsmake up the bulk of sale , HD TV are broadly limit to size small than 43 - inches , while 8 K has n’t taken off . 4 K should be the measure , but most of the broadcasts we watch are still in HD .
France foretell that 4 K TVs will have 64 % insight by the meter the 2024 Summer Olympics start , with that sporting centrepiece coiffe to be shown in 4K. That will direct to the shift off for HD signal to start in 2029 , where it ’s predict that intake of 4 K TVs will be 95 % of the population .
So where is the UK amidst all this ? Not well build up would be the resolution . Yes , Sky has plenty of 4 K content on its platform , but you ’ll have to pay extra for it . The BBC seems to be stuck in a never - terminate trial with 4 K contentedness , which has restricted how much content it can show on iPlayer in 4 K , some of which is down to regulatory return . It ’s as if the BBC has one handwriting tied behind its back while the likes ofNetflixandDisney+have gratis reign .
A waste of the technology
cyclosis is the way forward to present 4 K content as to do so through linear programme is foxy . Each groove takes up a certain amount of bandwidth due to the amount of data within the signal . 4 K would take up more than HD , and there ’s an overall bandwidth to consider – 4 G take up the bandwidth of around two ( or 1.5 ) HD channels , so to propagate in 4 M , the number of channels would need to be reduced .
Nevertheless , who would favor more channels of Dave and Alibi liken to watch the BBC in 4 K ? And moving to a 4 K – or even 8 KB work flow as I sawwhen BT Sports(now TNT Sports ) deport the first 8 K trial could make a adult deviation in how we look on programming , especially resilient sports .
It ’s annoying to me that we ’re all buying 4 super C sets and settling for upscaled HD ikon . That seems a barren of the technology we have at our disposal , but at least France is show a way of life for other countries to take . countenance ’s hope they bulge walking on that path preferably rather than later .
