Since there's not a whole lot of 4K footage out there, Westinghouse was showing stills on the set, and they looked great. And the company says it's not waiting for 4K programming before releasing the set, insisting that people will find other uses for it, like, say, watching four 1080p streams simultaneously, However, given the relatively slow uptake of 3D, and the fact that plenty of people are still perfectly content with the 720p sets they bought a couple of years ago, I don't see a huge rush to 4K until there's some compelling content behind it.
Meanwhile, Vizio rolled out an HDTV that may have more immediate applications: The Cinemawide XVT3D580CM, a 58-inch LCD TV with a 21:9 aspect ratio designed to display widescreen HD movies on the whole screen. Of course, you may end up with black bars on the sides when displaying non-widescreen programming, which probably includes just about everything on broadcast and cable TV, not to mention your games. But your Blu-ray discs will look perfect.
