14 DAY TRIAL // 4K displays can't be called cheap by any means, but even a 50-inch product sold for $1,000 / €1,000 can seem absurdly inexpensive compared to 110-inch monsters bearing tags of $150,000 / €150,000.
Perhaps because of that, or due to how short-lived the 3D fad was, 4K displays are expected to sell very well.
Or at least they're expected to sell much better than anyone thought this time last year, or even closer to the end of 2013. Samsung feels this way at least.
About 500,000 will sell this year, which is a lot compared to the 60,000 of 2013.
HS Kim, executive vice president of Samsung's visual display business, expects prices to drop faster than they did for 3D, and for consumers to warm up to 3840 x 2160 pixels better than they ever did for glasses-dependent media.
This seems to fit the forecasts made by others. Some have even said that it will take a while for widespread adoption to happen, but when it does, it will be a rapid change from Full HD to UHD. Samsung thinks it can bank on this and reduce the TV change cycle from 6 to 4-5 years.