As expected, Amazon Instant streaming has gone 4k this month… via a number of award-winning blockbusters such as Vendetta and Time Runners. Michael S sent in a few snaps from his brand spanking new Vizio P Series (which I’m contemplating) and 4k video is designated via a small UHD banner in the upper left of the box. Although Michael tells us the label is inconsistently applied and I’m not certain if the content is natively 4k or if the video has been upscaled from 1080. Irrespective, the future is here… should any of these titles appeal and our bandwidth caps be sufficiently generous.
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woo-hoo -- more format/hardware exclusiveness! Its like the 3D BluRay BS all over again (not that I ever cared for 3D)
Samsung announced initial exclusivity of Amazon 4K but it doesn't look like that's happening. They also announced exclusivity of a service called UltraFlix, but Vizio's announced that it's coming to their platform as well.
Perhaps I shouldn't have said anything--all sign of the UHD banner has disappeared from the Amazon app on my Vizio P552ui-B2. Oh well, at least I got pictorial evidence that it was there :D.
What is the bitrate on that? Some of the in store demos are streaming 80-100mbps.