Production values yes, distribution chain no. ISP are still doing build outs for 4K. Comcast, the largest cable company is just now spreading into 4K.
The tv manufacturers are famous for lying and pushing the next new thing without any content being available at all. Just like 4K was huge 3 years ago when no one was shooting in 4K for broadcast shows. If the networks don't broadcast in 4K and the cable companies don't broadcast 4K, you don't get that quality.
4K is just starting to saturate the media market like HD did years ago. Ultrasux upsampling shit resolutions to 4K ISN'T 4K, no matter what they say.
And the TV marketers lying about 4K being some sort of new technology is pure marketing nonsense. 4K is a resolution standard that itself has existed for decades. It is just the last few years electronics manufactures decided the public interest was enough to finally put money into updating existing infrastructure.
That plus the real reason for media going digital which was Microsoft and big content and creative providers getting onboard the cryptology train for self interest in protecting their content from us regular people who just want to watch stuff. They also created HDMI to be a crypto pirating protection scheme years ago so we can't copy anything using what we actually bought and own. Doubt this? Then do a search on Sony, drm which was a root kit and rendered their devices useless permanently that you bought if they thought you were making copies of their content 'illegally'.
Putting a higher res on lcd isn't anything new.
However - OLED, not Qled IS a new technology. OLED is a literal paradigm shift. Oled blows away qled and any lcd/led quality hands down.
Oh, and an example of false advertising that the tv manufacturers use with their junk is 1. Contrast level, 2. Refresh rate. Contast used to be a marketing point with the 1000000 contrast level. That is bogus and they stopped with that for the most part. Refresh rate on almost all tv's is still 60mhz, which won't let you see 1080p HD content as it supposed to be viewed. All manufacturers put names to refresh rates.-(refresh is a misnomer for lcd/led because lcd/led do not 'refresh' they redraw full screens. Refresh is a throwback to CRT that drew scan lines so many times a second. TV manufacturers, knowing most consumers are morons, keep using refresh because they believe we don't know what they are talking about. They're right about 70% of the people.)
Manufacturers call these 'refresh' rates things like 'effective, magic-screen and a few other nonsense names and claims. In reality, whenever you see this spec, divide by 2 for the real monitor timing rate of 60mhz.
You need 120 true mhz for 1080P in consumer tv's so look for the nonsense effective refresh 240 or some other magical name. That is a good indication of an actual 120 mhz timing, which is needed for optimal 1080P HD veiwing. You know it when you see it, as you can feel like you can step into the picture. It's what I see when shooting and editing video.
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