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Yes, you could.
You could be the first person there to even mention it.
Or you could go to a specialist forum with a quarter of a million references to it (and over 10,000 for HDMI2).
TBH, I think we've all made harder decisions than that.
4K TVs are out now. But there's no readily available content for the average user. Sony have what amounts to a hard drive media player. But the service relies on downloading via the web, so users had better have an unlimited streaming package or else face some fairly hefty usage charges.
Sony and Panasonic have joined forces to develop the next generation of optical disc. It uses red laser to pack a 4K film on to the same 12cm size disc as Blu-ray.
Current TVs are shipping with HDMI 1.4 spec connectors. This is the spec that has been in place since May 2009. This spec will handle 4K resolution. The limit is the refresh rate. 4K films will be fine since they are 24 frames per second (fps) and the standard can handle 30fps. What the standard won't handle is anything refreshing faster than that. So if you had a 4K game with a frame refresh rate of 50 or 60 fps then you'd be out of luck.
HDMI 2.0 was announced in Sept this year. It can refresh 4K at 60fps.
Early indications were that HDMI 2.0 would require new hardware in the sockets to handle the extra refresh rate. The latest indications are that it will be achieved with just a firmware update.
The cables you're buying today (High Speed or High Speed with Ethernet) should handle the increased refresh rate once HDMI 2.0 sources start to hit the streets as long as those cables are well made and meet the standard. However, a good contingency plan is to install cables in conduit to make replacement easy. Or to lay in a couple of runs of Cat6 to be used with balun boxes.
Anyone buying a 4K TV today is at what we refer to as the bleeding edge of the technology envelope. They're paying the highest price and taking the biggest risk that something in the standard will change. That's always a risk with 1st gen products.
Many years ago I went to a product pitch given by (Kodak, IIRC) for some new commercial film processing/printing equipment they'd introduced, and there was a 35mm slide show.The camera club projector has 1400x1050 display and even sitting at the front with a large screen I can't see any signs of pixels we all have to reduce our picture sizes to match projector.
Only in the GD forum, surely?mind only now to be redundant.
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