Yes, when I read that review from above, I thought to myself this is the new beginning. ...Prices will come down eventually, just like you can get a fantastic front projector nowadays for less than five grands. ...And a very nice 65" plasma HDTV, for less than three.
I love plasma panels myself, but some Sharp and Sony LCD (LED) models are pure high-end with blacks to kill for.
And of course their contrast and brightness and white peak level are at the very top of the flat panel echelon.
I'm also a pretty big fan of 3D, and that Sony must be awesome indeed, according to Tom (Norton), the reviewer.
Twenty years ago high-end videophiles were paying $50,000 and $100,000 for top quality pictures from their front projectors, with some video enhancers/deinterlacers/extrapolaters/purifiers (Faroudja).
Today, with 8K on the horizon (eventually 16K), some Ultra HDTVs (4K/50" flat panel) can be had for only $1,000/2,000.
And then you have that 84" Sony, for twenty-five grands. ...Somewhere between there is an Ultra HDTV for me. ...And it's not being built yet...
* Blacks (Pioneer Elite Kuro) = 0.0005 ft-Lambert. ...But no 3D here, and the max screen size is 60" I believe.
Kuros are just for 'Black level' and nothing else (no more, nowadays).
Now we have TVs that do Black at 0.001 ft-L (Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, Sharp, ...). ...But they also do much much much more.
...And size MATTERS!
That Sony Ultra HDTV is just an add, a publicity stunt; for $25,000, it's gotta be! ...It's an essay, a prototype, a testing waters device, a paper with numbers, a pretty picture with many small pixels, a teaser for the well healed video fanatics. ...One day .... :b