With the huge price drop on 1080p TVs . . .

David Jimerson

David Jimerson

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. . . combined with the lack of UHD content (and that which is available is hostage to your Internet connection), and the still big prices on UHD TVs . . .

If you're buying a TV right NOW, I'd say it's generally cheaper to buy a 1080p TV and then buy a UHD TV when there's actually content, and UHD TV prices will be lower, than it would be to "future-proof" yourself by buying a UHD TV today.

Plus, the cheaper UHD TVs of the future will have more features than the current models.
 
UHD TV's with good scaling aren't exactly expensive either, but your point is well taken about getting top end 1080 equipment.
 
I'm sure you can find an off-brand, no-features UHD TV for cheap cheap cheap, but I'm sure you can also find a 1080p TV from the same off brand for half as much, too.
 
People have said what I'm about to say before and been wrong, but I do think for most people 1080p is enough. The difference between 1080 and 4k at normal viewing distances on anything smaller than 60 inches is barely perceptible. Even in the back row of my home theater, I'd be challenged to resolve much more detail on my 106 inch screen (although I'll gladly upgrade to 4k when the projectors become reasonable). So 4K I'm not sure is ever going to become a standard for your average living room flatscreen television. What's really going to mandate higher resolutions is when VR takes off (if it does). From what I've read Oculus Rift still suffers from that screen door effect because you need much higher pixel densities when something is magnified to fill your entire vision, and the display tech, and the hardware to run it, isn't there yet.
 
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