Saturn

Jan 13, 2012   "According to new consumer research from Leichtman Research Group, 69% of households in the United States have at least one high definition television set, up from 17% in 2006. Over the past five years, 52% of US households adopted HDTV."   http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/165352/23-of-us-households-have-hi-def-tv-with-room.html#axzz2KdWrLcPZ   that means that 52% of US households bould a NEW HDTV set in 2006-2011 time period.   Hardly "TV dying as a actually device".

The death of TV is greatly exaggerated.   Yes, it may be considered as a spoon-fed approach, but to have a product of quality you need   1) Script of quality (writers) 2) Continuous effort of many-many people in the production.   Unfortunately all those people want to be paid so either movie or TV provides a model for them to be paid for the effort.   Otherwise (originally brought by the threat of the writers' strike) it will be 'something' - as crappy as 'reality TV' - just on internet.

Fractals from the 1980es rehashed. Same "resolution-independent" promise - and empty promise.

It reminds me of two movies which were shot on 70-mm film "just because we can and it will be beautiful" -   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103767/business http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770802/business   it looks like those two attempts - lost some money.   I suspect that an idea of getting 1DC to sell 4K footage is right in the same track - "lose money".

Actually Canon 1DC can record at least 2 min of uninterrrupted video on Lexar 1000x - I've tried. It created 2 .mov files and warned about it at the end.   Here is a small 12 sec video shot inside the store in 4K mode:   http://tests.dmitry.com/1DC/   4096x2160@24P, ISO 400, 1/30 sec, f/5.6, 35mm prime lens, manual focus on a fishing bowl's reflection

  Live by copyright, die by copyright ;)

Depending on principality it may not matter. Here in US we do have "Digital Millenium Act". You haven't signed it. I haven't signed it.   But Congress - did.