Sony's 84-inch 4K TV Will Cost $24,999.99; Pre-order Sept. 6

[exfileme]

Consumers wanting Sony's 84-inch monster 3D 4KTV can pre-order it starting Thursday.

Sony's 84-inch 4K TV Will Cost $24,999.99; Pre-order Sept. 6 : Read more

 

[burmese_dude]

Can I also bid?

I bid 1 dollar, Bob.

 

[warmon6]

$25K..... New car or New tv.......

 

[wardoc22]

This tv is for rich people.

 

[wardoc22]

...No.

 

[Guest]

4K LCD Panel... tell me when its OLED

 

[Meatymutawings]

[citation][nom]warmon6[/nom]$25K..... New car or New tv.......[/citation]
doubt this tv is for people who drive 25K cars.

 

[Jprobes]

You would be suprised at the number of people who don't bat an eyelash at paying that price for a display.

My wife, when she was working her way through college at Best Buy in Thousand Oaks as a cashier would routinely ring up and process sales that were 30-40k in electronics. 20k TV, 5k for speakers, 5k for a receiver, cables, stands, mounts, replacement plans, installation plans.

You would not think anyone would buy this, but their are certain markets that these sell in.

Think about all the athletes, celebs, people who have giant sums of disposable income. Sony needs to just sell 1-2,000 of these displays this year to mitigate the costs in the fabrication process.

They will become cheaper, I remember the first thin panel plasma screen I ever say. $22,000 for a pioneer 42" SDTV, and someone way buying it...

 

[spentshells]

finally toms lets see trifire 7970 toxic 6gb here please

 

[Guest]

I remembered when plasma tvs first appeared 13 years ago for $13,000 with 720p. It taken 5-7 years to be sold for less than $1000, and by that time few wanted plasmas.

 

[amuffin]

I'll wait until 4K becomes the new standard.....

 

[bak0n]

Let see. Pay $25k for a TV. or fully invest retirement for the next 3 years.

 

[wolley74]

Aaaand 0 4K sources really to use with it, lovely

 

[drwho1]

Sony's 84-inch 4K TV Will Cost $24,999.99; Pre-order Sept. 6

Dear Santa... I know is a bit early for Christmas but I have been a good boy.

 

[brythespy]

Wow the future is now, no, now, no wait, now, etc.

 

[tomfreak]

Double the Screen size, 4 times the resolution, more than 30times the price. Logic not apply here.

 

[SteelCity1981]

damn that much and it isn't even OLED? This is why i wait a good 3 or 4 years instead of buying something like this when it's new, because after all the research and development fees are paid off and the product itself reaches full mass productions prices drop like a rock from wht they were when they were brand new. Not to mention the technology in them will be more advance then the ones that first came out.

 

[SteelCity1981]

[citation][nom]Tomfreak[/nom]Double the Screen size, 4 times the resolution, more than 30times the price. Logic not apply here.[/citation]

Not 4 times the resolution 2 times then 1080p considering this is a 4K if it was 4 times the resolution it would be an 8k.

 

[bystander]

[citation][nom]SteelCity1981[/nom]Not 4 times the resolution 2 times then 1080p considering this is a 4K if it was 4 times the resolution it would be an 8k.[/citation]

The resolution is 4 times the size. It's 2 times the size up and down, and 2 times the size side to size. 2 * 2 = 4.

Another way to calculate it:
3840*2160 = 8294400
1920*1080 = 2073600

 

[nieur]

[citation][nom]warmon6[/nom]$25K..... New car or New tv.......[/citation]
Lucky you world in which I live it would be
$25K..... New House or New TV.......

 

[Guest]

hmm. 2 new cars that i would enjoy or 1 new tv i would never watch

NOPE.PNG

 

[pliskin1]

Cool, i'll take 3.

 

[mrmez]

Get back to me when I can actually buy 4k movies.

 

[jn77]

You do realize that this TV is already old news. Look at it this way. You can buy a 24 inch LCD TV that is 1080p (Look at 24inch computer monitors). So 84 inches is just under 4x length wise I would expect 1920x 4 = 7680 pixels by 1080 x 4 = 4320.

So this TV might have a great picture from 400 feet away. If it had 7680x4320 resolution, it might actually be worth something.

 

[boju]

I admire the sheer size and effort to push higher resolutions but honestly I hate LCDs, would have been cool to see Plasma in its place instead even if I couldn’t afford one.

I wish OLED didn’t have such a high fail rate otherwise we'd be seeing those in large sizes with insane resolutions instead already. Evolved OLED hopefully will eventually arrive and when/if it does it will blow the TV market away.

http://www.techradar.com/news/television/oled-tv-what-you-need-to-know-1056228

OLED technology has the potential of being 1000x faster than LED-backlit LCD and superior to Plasma too, very Good news for movie goers and gamers.

Another thing that grabbed me was this article explaining differences between 4k2k in digital cinema and 4k TV's coming up a tad short and same goes for 1080p TVs.

http://www.techradar.com/news/television/tv/why-4k-isnt-ready-to-replace-hd-1065703

"Digital Cinema is slightly different to TV – a 4K frame has 4096 vertical lines of resolution lines compared to 3840 for a 4k TV picture," explains Bill Foster, Senior Technology Consultant at Futuresource Consulting. "It's simple maths – a regular cinema picture measures 2048x1080 pixels, which is slightly wider than a 1920x1080 pixel image we see on a Full HD TV."