Comment Re:Welcome back to 2005 (Score 1) 442
The real issue is content, in that nothing is really in 4K right now. The transportation and storage method is not.
No. The real issue is the transportation and storage.
'We' work on 4K theatrical releases daily. They're stored uncompressed as image sequences on large disk arrays. Or alternatively as RED/Arri/Other digital files which require real-time de-bayering via a dedicated hardware card or GPU. We have the content.
It's relatively simple to deliver 4K theatrical releases to your local DCP. Delivering over air or cable will require superb (new) compression algorithms in to maintain acceptable quality whilst dramatically reducing data rate, perhaps aided by a local GPU within future televisions/decoders.