Fox Sports’ NFL 4K HDR Fiasco Is an Embarrassment for the Whole AV Industry

Conterpoint: the AV industry has always been an embarrassment. At least since we moved pass standard OTA & radio, it's been nothing but competing propietary formats, connectors, DRM, etc. The current HDR battle is just a little bit worse since any version is just advertised as 'HDR' leading to extra confusion.

It is very interesting that, at least in the US, 4k is still not really around. I don't think I can get any programming in 4k and I don't even have a 4k TV.

Netflix does 4k only on some devices and thats the only one I'm aware of. I'm sure there are plenty of examples, but the average consumer (me) is not consuming 4k content regularly. TV ads from 2015 would've led you to believe everything would be 4k now.

Heck, even youtube never streams in 4k.

Considering how in addition to this the streaming market is heading towards more and more fragmentation, soon the average user will have a handy poster-sized cheat sheet on the wall with a matrix telling them which show is available in which quality on which streaming service using which gadget connected to which HDMI port of their TV.

Makes you long for the good old days where it was just Betamax vs VHS or Bluray vs HDDVD.

>1080p production system that was upscaled to 4K

mm the US, land of "unlimited" internet with data caps