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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Worf" data-source="post: 48630" data-attributes="member: 1047">Well, I'd like to get my hands on a RED, but they're out of my affordability (I can *barely* afford the Epic kit - just going by disposable yearly income).But the big deal is - well, all the TV stations and channels have made huge investments in HD cameras and such, and they're probably going to be REALLY unhappy about tossing it all away and having to get 4K gear. Consumers too - they're seeing 4K TVs at CES this y ear, but they probably will NOT expect them for another few years (better part of a decade), especially given current economic conditions. 4K right now has little content (only movies are 4K), no distribution (neither cable, satellite, fiber, internet, nor disc formats have enough capacity and bandwidth to handle it), nor displays. And only the latter is showing early prototypes that'll be where HD was 10+ years ago.4k however will probably make an appearance in the generation of consoles AFTER this one. When it's new and getting there. Maybe. When maybe 10% of people have one 4KTV in their living rooms and the rest are all HDTVs. It's why the Wii doesn't have HD - back when it was released, if you had an HDTV, you had ONE HDTV. The kids would at best get what the old living room TV was - the old SD set. When we go 4K, it'll be the generation after (and the Nintendo one will only support HDTV because 4K TVs in homes will be rare, and very few kids will have 'em).Quite possibly - there are rumors that the next gen Xbox chip is actually sampling and will have Kinect built in. The main reason the original Kinect doesn't is cost - even at $150 it was subsidized (and why the Windows one is $250). This time around, Microsoft can bake it in and optimize the cost because it'll be built into the main CPU.Hell, there's a rumor that says Microsoft may introduce the next Xbox prior to the Thanksgiving timeframe. Unlikely though - earlier than that and we're talking summer. And summer has traditionally be a very weak game time.</blockquote>

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