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A New Year's 'Resolution'

Each new year, we all make promises to ourselves, and this January at CES, the biggest promise was 4K, which for the streaming industry is a defining moment. Though it will take time for the home theater enthusiast to catch up to what our industry can already deliver, there’s absolute certainty now that we are at the end of the road for video media being stored and sold on disks—Blu-ray is the end of the line for optical media. With YouTube, Netflix, and Amazon already making 4K announcements with content partners this year, it’s now just a matter of consumers upgrading our pipes and screens. Considering “disposable” is the new “affordable” when it comes to mobile devices, it won’t take long. For our industry, I think this is one promise that we are going to live up to, once the OTT market settles down and finds a level of normalcy...