If your banking concern explanation has left you unaware of the state of the 4 K movement , here ’s a fun surprise : if you buy a 4 chiliad picture show from Sony , you ’ll need a Sony television to toy it back . If you buy one from Samsung , you ’ll need a Samsung TV to watch it . Which means that what should be a fete for your heart has turned into just another proprietary bother in the shag .
AsGeoffery Morrison manoeuvre out in a part onCNET :
What would have happened if , in the early days of DVD , you could only bribe disc that worked with your steel of tv ? How apace would you have upgraded , knowing that to watch your two favorite picture you ’d need to buy two different televisions , and two different DVD players ?
Despite the many formatting wars we ’ve had in the past , it seems like society just do n’t learn . They ’re either too speechless , or too self-important or both . Sony , in exceptional , has a long tradition of foisting proprietary format on exploiter and then sending them to their tomb when they just do n’t work out ( MemorySticks , Mini Disc , the Reader e - book reader that made it unimaginable to laden your own content onto it , Betamax , the DAT … Sony ’s list of proprietary failuresis endless ) .
Samsung is no alien to this game too . The company ’s latestGear Fitsmartwatch works only with certain phone in its Galaxy range of twist . And Bada , its proprietary smartphone political program , wasphased outin favour of Tizen .
lock down formats in the Bob Hope that consumers will embrace them willy - nilly is the worst kind of corporate hubris . If we ’re make up thousands of dollar bill to watch 4 K in the first place , at least let us keep an eye on what we desire where we need . [ CNET ]
http://www.cnet.com/news/why-are-sony-and-samsung-keeping-4k-content-to-themselves/
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