Less than one week after Sony announced its 55-inch Ultra High Definition TV will retail for $5000, Chinese TV maker Seiki Digital just introduced a 50-inch UHDTV that is street priced at $1299.99. It is available now for purchase. The Seiki UHDTV has an LED LCD edge lit panel with a rated 120 Hz refresh. More details after the break.
The Seiki’s model number is SE50UY04. Screen resolution is 3840 x 2160, four times the HDTV standard. Specifications include 3 HDMI inputs as well as analog RGB. Both types inputs permit the viewing of native UHD content, however it is limited to 24 Hz, 25 Hz (for Europe) and 30 Hz sources (according to their spec sheet). The current HDMI standard does not permit the viewing of content with higher refresh rates and the next generation of HDMI chipsets that will accept higher refresh source material will not be available until later this year.
By the way, this $1299 Ultra HD set is already in stock at TigerDirect
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7674736&Sku=S874-5004
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This pricing is very unexpected this early. It makes me wonder what sort of margins the manufacturers are making on this set.
It only has 3 hdmi ports?
I thought 4k needed 4 HDMI ports to display 4k?
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I think I remember reading the Red 4K Player needs 4 HDMI ports to work.A single HDMI 1.4 can do 4k up to 30fps. Upcoming 2.0 should be able to do 4k at 60fps
Soon. Sony's 4K player is available this summer for $699 preloaded with 10 titles. They are supposed to have their distribution system up before the holiday season. Hopefully, this will get Red going with their distribution system for the Redray player ($1,599) and get their projector to market (around $10K). Netflix is also planning to have 4K within 2 years.From reading about 4k it will be very difficult to tell how good this is at only 50 inches.
I would spend money on a good panny or sammy 1080p.
No content available for this tv.
On the good side though this set may be cheaper than a 4k bluray player...... when they arrive.
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