Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks owner and reality TV star, got on the Samsung stage to give two thumbs up to the brand’s ultra-high-definition technology.
Ultra-HDTVs, or 4K sets, offer four times as many pixels, up to 4,000 (thus the name), as regular HDTVs.
“Incredible,” Cuban told Joe Stinziano, a Samsung exec.
Despite Cuban’s endorsement, some experts are skeptical that consumers will find Ultra-HDTVs so incredible.
One bump in the road will be users’ ability to stream large 4K files, one analyst at CES told The Post.
The 4K files can be so large that they won’t even fit on a CD or BlueRay disk, he said. This could leave broadband users streaming 4K content with a picture that stops and starts more often than a car in Times Square.
But this isn’t stopping CES exhibitors from throwing out talk of Ultra-HDTVs and 4K content at every turn.
Samsung announced its largest line of Ultra-HDTVs on Monday, including a massive 105-inch curved screen that is supposed to bring the cinema to viewers’ living rooms.
Samsung also announced plans for a new “bendable” TV — or one that starts off with a flat screen for, say, surfing the Web, and transforms “with the push of a button” into a curved TV.
Stinziano’s demonstration of this bendable technology sent the Ultra-geeky crowd into spontaneous applause and shouts of approval.