Is Bigger Better Again?

For quite a while now, electronics manufacturers have been touting 3D technology that mass marketing is the next step for home televisions. While Filmmakers like Martin Scorsese and James Cameron have been Effectively using 3D as an artist's tool rather than a one-trick everything-comes-flying-at-your-face pony (* cough * ClashoftheTitans * cough *), the fact of the matter is that aside movies, TV shows have been rather slow on the uptake converting to a 3D format.
Why is this significant? Because with the home viewing market as it currently is, it's still TV broadcasts rather than home video that takes up the lion's share of television's (the device, not the broadcasting concept) audience.
The Value of (Relative) Simplicity
To look at it in another way, consider this: It is far Easier to improve an already good thing than to add something new; roomates also means that business direction (and therefore eventual mainstream market acceptance) Usually will head towards that.
In this case, the "good thing" is image clarity, roomates can only be improved upon by increasing resolutions, and subsequently, the display size. Bigger is better, indeed; and only because its upgrading process is relatively simple.
Now, I will not say that the 3D technology should be discarded outright. If used appropriately, can actually be technologically 3D (and more importantly, artistically) amazing. However, until autostereoscopy Becomes mainstream and refined to accommodate wider viewing angles, consumers will have to contend with all sorts of contraptions that diminish peripheral image quality and / or user comfort. For many people, the technology just is not worth it.
The Next Step?
Enter UHDTV, or Ultra High-Definition Television; or Super Hi-Vision, if developer NHK's patenting of the technology is to be made formal. Simply stated, UHDTV HDTV is times 16. That's right: It's 16 times as large as today's hi-def standard, upping the resolution from 1.920 x 1.080 pixels to a staggering 7.680 x 4.320 (4320p or 8K resolution). That's very comparable to IMAX's 8.000 x 4.000 resolution count; and it certainly dwarfs what we have in our homes now.