I disagree that they were lazy with the PS3--it was very ambitious when it was released. If it hadn't been so expensive and so late, it would very likely have passed the 360 in this generation. They did seem to get distracted and let it languish a bit as time went on, though.

Not now but in 4 to 5 years they will be once the prices drop after the research and developement fees are paid off. The reality is 4k TV's are mostly reserved for TV's that are 60 inches and up, because this is the target screen sizes were TV manufactures are focusing 4k TV's on since you will be able to start to see a diff in image quality with 4k over 1080p. So the vast majority of TV's under 60 inches will remain 1080p for years to come.

Apple could move the industry much faster if they brought out 4K TV's. But I still can't understand how they'll handle upscaling of old i576 and i480 content. I'll be one of these consumers to buy the last gen of 1080p TV's so I can watch my old shows. Actually, I now regret throwing away my perfectly good 1997 Sony Trinitron 4 years ago.

they will prob leave it as the same format and the picture on the screen will just auto adjust to a letter box format like with modern HD TV's. i can only imagine how much smaller the viewing area is going to be with a 4k big screen TV through with low def formats. I'd guess half the screen will prob end up being black bars on either side to make up for the pixel loss.

I hear ya i upgraded recently to a 32 inch led backlit 1080p HDTV. I loved my old sanyo 32 inch TV, but i had to upgrade, i was getting tired of my screen getting cut off esp watching sports. So it was time for an upgrade to HD That and i was getting HD cable boxes as a free upgrade and it would have been pointless to have HD cable boxes and have a non HDTV to not be able to take advantage of it. So between those two reasons I finally caved in and bought me an HDTV. Sad part is you can't even give your old CRT TV's away now because no one wants them. I first tried selling mine and when that didn't fly i tried giving it away and no one wanted it lol.

Upscaling 1080p to 4K is trivial, just make one 1080p pixel in to 2x2 4K pixels, since 4K is exactly 2x the size of 1080p in both dimensions. Although some TV manufacturers are doing more advanced upscaling that tries to predict greater detail from the original image.

I think the point is that 4k upscaling of old TV will make it look like an early 80s computer game. But I can't wait to see how they'll engineer a reasonable solution.