LAS VEGAS, NEVADA—Here at CES, every TV maker is showing off massive 4K "Ultra HD" TV sets. The high prices for this first wave of 4K TVs—Sony's 84-inch set is a cool $25,000, for instance—are going to make them strictly an early-adopter luxury for now. But digital cinema camera maker RED has the first consumer-ready solution for native 4K playback, perhaps solving the chicken-and-egg problem that threatened to plague adoption of 4K as a home entertainment standard.
Seeing is believing
The quality of image on a 4K Ultra HD TV is quite astounding in person. If you have ever noted the difference between a Retina and non-Retina display on an iPhone, iPad, or MacBook Pro, you can think of 4K as "Retina for TV." Images show a surprising level of detail—you can see every hair on the back of someone's neck, or every slat of the blinds in apartment building windows. Many of the demos on the CES show floor are jaw-dropping.
I can't help but want one.
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