NanoTech Entertainment Inc (NTEK)

[DangFool]

4K at 4mps looks like crap. Remember, NTEK has no technology at all. They have nothing special. They have absolutely nothing that Netflix or Sony or Hulu or Amazon don't have.

Unless you're going to count founders and chief executives going to prison for fraud. In that department, NTEK's miles ahead of them.

4K at anything less than about 15mbps is inferior, by any subjective or objective measure, to 1080p Blu-Ray.

The way you make a compressible 4K stream at <6mbps is to soften the starting image to less than 1080p effective resolution. At that point, you have to wonder: why? What's the point of calling it 4K at all?

And if NP-1 owners can't tell the difference between real, original, pristine 4K and stuff that's softened so much that it's inferior to the current Blu-Ray standard, how can they rely on the market to be equally ignorant of what constitutes a video experience that's worth the premium price?

4K will take off, to the extent it takes off at all, this fall when 4K Blu-Ray disks come out. It's likely that they'll sell a lot of players, especially if they're cheap enough (< about $150), and a few 4K disks, but my guess is that beyond the novelty of getting the super high-resolution version of this or that film, most people will continue to be perfectly happy with regular 1080p source material.

At the end of the day, 1080p Blu-Ray looks damned good.