Sharp shows off $31k Ultra HD 60"

[gadgtfreek]

Japan's Sharp Corp. has just unveiled its most expensive television set to date: the 60-inch ICC Purios, which has a price tag of Y2,625,000 ($31,283) and a resolution that is much higher than that of conventional high-definition TVs. Sharp plans to start selling the Purios in Japan from Feb. 20 on a made-to-order basis, but hasn't yet decided whether to sell it overseas.

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[Ilya]

Those initial prices on Ultra HD TV sets and projectors are outrageous!
But they will quickly fall down in a year or two once the mass-production of Ultra HD sets begins.

 

[gadgtfreek]

Yepp, OLED is gonna be rough too. IMO thats why plasma does not go anywhere for a few more years. Every time LCD tech makes an advancement, it completely wipes out any forward progress they have made in lowering the price (talking about premium models).

 

[teachsac]

At that price, I don't see them selling many. Both Sony and LG are less expensive for a larger screen. Of course yens never translate into American prices.

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[John Kotches]

4K is in its infancy and they have to build 4x as many flawless pixels in a panel -- that lends itself to a higher failure rate and cost initially. This is the chicken/egg phase too.

Looking forward to something in real world pricing (under $2k) but don't expect that for 4-5 years at best. I hope I'm wrong.

 

[Stargazer]

There has to be enough content made available to make it worth while in buying. Took 8-10 years before that happened with HD. I remembered seeing a Charlie Chat where they said that the new HD television on the market was like $26K. I wonder if it will be a bit thougher to upconvert content to Ultra HD than it was to upconvert SD to HD. Compression standards need to be improved to allow for additional bandwidth for this Ultra HD content. Probably MPEG-6 or something else to get the additional bandwidth needed.

 

[mike123abc]

Ultra HD is essentially 4x the resolution of HD. Assuming they adopt the new compression standard which supposedly saves 50% of the bandwidth they essentially have to double the bitrate of current HD programming to achieve 4k. They (online HD streaming companies) seem to think 5mbit is good for 1080p, so perhaps all they need is a 10mbit signal to do 4k....