Just when you thought you were state of the art.
All the Best, Jeff
Interesting, TVs are becoming obsolete faster than anything else. The day will come when you will change your TV as often as you change your phone.
This is the new normal.
Before digital, I had my TV for 20 years.
Sony 36 inch XBR, wonderful TV.
Those were the days.
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Yes… Well it has been a great 10 year run…
It will be interesting to see what this actually does once sets are available. So often in the past it has turned out that in the real world, it was better to turn off all of this kind of processing.
I did see rumblings about this on https://forum.blu-ray.com/. All I know is that I’m not repurchasing all of my 4K disks just to get a new HDR standard. Plus, how many of existing titles will even get a DV2 release? I guess DV2 will matter more for newer movies and only the ones where the studio bothers to apply it to. There hasn’t been much in theaters to excite me this year which makes that seem like less of an issue. I guess when I eventually upgrade I’ll get a TV that supports it but for now I won’t stress.
Edit: Forgot about the player side of things. Maybe this will prompt a new generation of 4K players being released with updated hardware. 
Exactly the way I feel about it.
I sort of doubt it. The player market is pretty dead. I still use Oppo 203/205 players . Mostly because no one has come out with anything as good, let alone better, in the last several years.
But we can hope.
That Sony XBR was a keeper.
Sold those back in the day and also liked the bigger Panasonics of that era.
Both those brands had Incredible deep black contrast and they were bulletproof.
What I’m actually expecting to happen is we’ll get a half-arsed software update to enable DV2 retroactively but I expect the results of such an approach to be so sub-par that it will negate any possible benefits of the new format.
They’ll also probably release a “new model” which is just the old model with the newer DV2 standard preloaded on it and a different model number. Still, if that is an excuse to produce more units it’s better than nothing.
Studios are happy to release more and more disks but IDK how that can continue if manufacturers refuse to release good players. I’m not expecting the 4k player market to be like the record player market but there needs to be a device that’s built with long-term service in mind if they don’t want to release new machines on the regular. The current machines are too limited in processing power and are just not robust enough.
The UB9000 is what I’m looking for in terms of build, heavy and sound-deadening and robust enough to survive disassembly for repair throughout its lifetime. But the performance is sluggish which doesn’t leave much room for extension of features through software and also makes for an annoying user experience. I also think Panasonic makes idiotic choices in terms of menus. (You have to open a sub menu that covers most of the screen to switch subtitle tracks, as opposed to one button press on a Sony)
Magnetar is, from what I hear, a collection of cheap parts in a metal box and it’s supported by a company that I don’t trust to exist in 5 years. Plus they are gouging on the price. I really want Sony to put their best foot forward on the problem.
I am actually glad those days are behind us. 250lbs of obsolescence.
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Yep,
Curious how you disposed of it?
Seems like they were Piano’s of their time at end of use, “Free, You move and you bring help” 
I helped move 2 of them and the second experience was the last for sure.
A Got Junk type company. Was not easy.
I Had an “RCA” branded 38" CRT. The F38310. It actually was a 1080i display. It had the new (then) ATSC digital tuner. Originally $5K. About 220+ pounds. A good chunk of that weight was the CRT! It was a great TV and worked well for quite a few years. You couldn’t get anything with that big of a screen without going rear projector back then. Those things were super finicky about conversion and generally sucked.
I gave it to a group of 3 local college students. They tied it into a little Jeep CJ (with rope that I gave them) and drove off. They carried that awkward beast up 4 flights of stairs to their apartment.
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You know, speaking of new and competing standards, what do ya’ll think about 8K?
It’s bizarre to me that there are so many 8K TVs available to purchase. What does one even use an 8K TV for at this point?
- 8K Blu-rays? Yea right! Manufacturers don’t even want to produce 4K machines. I bet 8K machines would have an even narrower profit margin.
- 8K Streaming? Current 4k streaming is substandard due to the extremely low bitrate. To increase the image size to 8k they’ll probably want to reduce the bitrate even further and at that point even casual viewers would notice. Also, some scummy companies are still trying to charge extra for 4k even though most new tvs are 4k at this point.
- What content? We’ve only just gotten to the point where finishing the movie at 4K is starting to gain traction
Anyway, if the 8K format does somehow get forced into existence, maybe we’ll at least get some high end disk players that are 4k compatible…