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4K provides new and enhanced benefits to the customer,” Joly said in an interview in May. “We will be the destination for consumers to see the difference.”
With Samsung and Sony sharing the costs, Best Buy has revamped the home-theater sections in 650 of its 1,050 U.S. stores, with dedicated space for each brand and 4K as the centerpiece. At a Best Buy store in Manhattan, the screen on a 65-inch 4K TV shows a lush green valley in crisp, high-definition.
Then the picture splits, and the image on one half is converted from high-definition to near 4K, revealing more texture to the grass and wisps of steam in the clouds floating above the mountains. Best Buy’s pitch is that 4K TVs make existing content look better, an attempt to ease concerns that there aren’t many movies or TV shows available yet in the format, a hurdle that derailed 3D.