Netflix chief product officer Neil Hunt has said today that he expects the company to offer 4K streaming within two years.
The company is committed to the standard, despite its large bandwidth needs.
Hunt says streaming will be the first arena for 4K, rather than in disc form: "That's because of the challenges involved in upgrading broadcast technologies and the fact that it isn't ... [ read the full article ]
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Hi-frikken-larious. They can't even serve up a quality 720p signal, and you expect me to believe they can pull of 4k streaming?!?!!!
Not to mention, there is no where near the penetration in the country, the bandwidth, nor lack of caps to allow this. What, am I going to queue up my 4k show, wait 2.5 days for it to finish, and only be alloted enough bandwidth a month to watch two movies?
According to a press conference release sometime last week, Hunt states that once the 4k compression technology has been completed, it'll be able to stream even over dial-up. This, I'm going to have to definitely see for myself.
Originally posted by SumYonGuy: According to a press conference release sometime last week, Hunt states that once the 4k compression technology has been completed, it'll be able to stream even over dial-up. This, I'm going to have to definitely see for myself.
eeeeyeahhhh, not so much. Anybody who bought that may be interested in some ocean front property I have for sale a few miles outside of Las Vegas city limits.
Originally posted by SumYonGuy: According to a press conference release sometime last week, Hunt states that once the 4k compression technology has been completed, it'll be able to stream even over dial-up.
How about they use that supposedly incredible new compression tech on existing 1080p video?
Stream me a Blu-ray matching film with lossless audio & I'll believe this, until then, as far as I'm concerned, I'm afraid it's just PR & BS.
