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I'm not sure how long you would want to hold your breath. The beauty of HD video is that on a television screen the human eye can't distinguish the difference between anything higher res, for the most part. You start approaching the limits of the amount of detail it is possible to resolve on a surface less the 50" wide. 2K is barely an improvement, so a 2k format wouldn't take off, 4k would be successful but seems so over-the-top, and would be so expensive to produce that there would be no point when there is a mass-market 1080 format.
That's why once I go Blu-Ray, I'm never going to buy another video format ever again. I'll never have the need for anything higher resolution in my own home. I don't think studios have quite grasped this yet, luckily, otherwise they would be milking the BR releases like they did with DVD. The whole home video industry is based on getting people to buy something they already have again. I have a suspicion that Blue Ray is going to partly kill the home video market in a few years once catalog titles are out.