Tv advice!?

[Grieve]

Visual quality comes in the form of good props, good makeup, good lighting and that sort of thing. The monster that looked scary in SD will look like a very obvious man in a rubber suit in HD. (I think I was watching Atlantis when I upgraded from a 720 rear projection to a 1080 Samsung LCD and the improvement in picture made Atlantis on SciFi HD go from looking like a high-production show to something more like the old Dr. Who. Every flaw was way more obvious.)

I don't disagree, but I still want to see the stuff that IS made with high production values (particularly movies) in the best possible format. Especially since I usually watch movies on a 144" projector screen, were you'll really notice the difference (not so much on a 32" TV).

But yeah, there will be some issues. When Peter Jackson some footage of the Hobbit (which is filmed in 4K and 48FPS) to exhibiters recently, everyone was freaked out by it (and not in a good way).

That's actually way too much resolution imo. I have a 1920x1200 25.5" monitor. Doubling that resolution wouldn't really help -- I don't think it would give me any more real estate because my text is already as small as I would let it be for comfortable reading.

It doesn't have to be more real estate, though, it can be higher quality text - like the iPad 3. But it can still make use of the higher resolution for things like video, drawing packages, etc.

It might be interesting in games but I'm not real sure how modern video cards would handle a resolution that big,

Intel has said that their new Ivy Bridge processors have native retina support:

http://www.slashgear.com/intel-vp-confir...-12222668/

For video, you're lucky to get streaming video in 720 today. 1080 is so much bandwidth that not all broadband can support it. I have a hard time seeing us streaming 5120x2880 anytime soon.

For now, but Google is already setting up 1 gigabit per second fiber in some cities.

In fact, I'm curious if a Blu-Ray disk could hold a movie at that resolution. ("Insert Disk 2 to continue.")

Nope. Not without ratcheting down the bitrate by ridiculous levels.

But 4K blu-rays will be coming...

http://www.digitalversus.com/blu-ray-fil...22823.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...-2013.html

In fact 100GB quad layer blurays were demonstrated as far back as 4-5 years ago.

Having said that, I believe that we're not far off from everything being streamed from "the cloud" (see Google 1 gigabit broadband above), which is going to make all physical media defunct. That's why I don't buy blu-rays or DVDs anymore, and haven't for a while.