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Sony puts a price on its 4K TV: $25,000

Early adopters who want twice the resolution as ordinary HD TV will have to pay dearly for it. The price tag for Sony’s XBR-84X900 works out to 0.3 cents per pixel.

From CNET:

A week after Sony Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai uncloaked the company’s massive 4K 3D TV, Sony has uncloaked its price, too: $25,000.

People can pre-order Sony’s 84-inch XBR-84X900 today, but it won’t be in stores until November, Sony said today.

The 4K TV has four times the number of pixels — 3,840×2,160 — as a regular HD TV. The 4K label, a bit of a loose term meaning 4,000, refers to number of pixels across the width. Sony is pushing hard to move the industry to 4K video, hoping for a new upgrade cycle such as the one that occurred when people replaced bulky CRT TVs with today’s flat-panel models.

The price of Sony’s massive XBR-84X900 obviously will deter ordinary buyers, but prices should drop over time as they have with HD, 3D, and flat-panel TVs in recent years.

One hurdle for Sony to overcome: there’s barely any video available that’s shot in 4K, though there’s a 4K YouTube channel, some movies and movie theaters are making the shift, and Sony’s TV can upscale traditional 1,920×1080 HD video to 4K. Another hurdle: 4K resolution is too high to perceive unless you’re sitting very close to the screen, by some measurements.

The XBR-84X900 is a passive 3D TV, meaning that watching 3D requires only polarized-light glasses that don’t require batteries or synchronization with the TV itself.

It’s also got a 10-driver stereo speaker system mounted along the edges of the screen. The screen itself is an edge-lit LED-based LCD. Sony uncloaked the huge Bravia model at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin.

I don’t know if watching The Walking Dead is worth that much. What do you think? What is the biggest TV you would like to own? As always thanks for reading, and have a great day! Tom.