To Lajet I visited the Best Buy in Eden Prairie
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Posted On: 08/06/2015 5:47:30 PM
To Lajet
I visited the Best Buy in Eden Prairie, MN and Richfield, MN. They both have ad panels clearly presenting Ultraflix.
I talked to a salesman in each store. This must be BestBuy's sales line. It is a general "4k has been around for 10-15 years. Big screen movies have been 4k for years, tv is just catching up"
Help me parse the truth here. My impression is that very few movies are ready for 4k on your tv set. Even Interstellar seemed to require some help from 4K Studios. Does anyone know the year to year progression towards 4K ready to view today?
Neither salesman knew much about Ultraflix other than another app competing with Netflix. Not being presented as somehow special. I guess we will have to do that ourselves - not unexpected.
I also visited a Minneapolis Walmart. several of the same names like Samsung but no overt presentation of UltraFlix.
I regularly go to Costco, Eden Prairie and the are the same as Walmart. I beleive that Costco doesn't have the newest product as does Best Buy. The boxes holding their tvs would have been printed awhile ago, prior to UltraFlix gaining status. UF doesn't show up alongside Netflix as a printed example of a place to go for 4k content.
I'm sure that the minute Ultra Flix proves to Best Buy management that UF can help support their sales pitch with great 4k material they will begin to rely on us to help them meet the promise they are selling to their clients. As it is now, Best Buy is streaming House of Cards and Game of Thrones as their 4K examples. That way they are not presenting a lie that cannot be accessed by their clients.
Paul
I visited the Best Buy in Eden Prairie, MN and Richfield, MN. They both have ad panels clearly presenting Ultraflix.
I talked to a salesman in each store. This must be BestBuy's sales line. It is a general "4k has been around for 10-15 years. Big screen movies have been 4k for years, tv is just catching up"
Help me parse the truth here. My impression is that very few movies are ready for 4k on your tv set. Even Interstellar seemed to require some help from 4K Studios. Does anyone know the year to year progression towards 4K ready to view today?
Neither salesman knew much about Ultraflix other than another app competing with Netflix. Not being presented as somehow special. I guess we will have to do that ourselves - not unexpected.
I also visited a Minneapolis Walmart. several of the same names like Samsung but no overt presentation of UltraFlix.
I regularly go to Costco, Eden Prairie and the are the same as Walmart. I beleive that Costco doesn't have the newest product as does Best Buy. The boxes holding their tvs would have been printed awhile ago, prior to UltraFlix gaining status. UF doesn't show up alongside Netflix as a printed example of a place to go for 4k content.
I'm sure that the minute Ultra Flix proves to Best Buy management that UF can help support their sales pitch with great 4k material they will begin to rely on us to help them meet the promise they are selling to their clients. As it is now, Best Buy is streaming House of Cards and Game of Thrones as their 4K examples. That way they are not presenting a lie that cannot be accessed by their clients.
Paul
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