The World’s Best Smartphone Camera — From Sony Corporation (ADR) (SNE)?

Neil Hunt, Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX)‘s chief product officer, told The Verge in an interview last March that Netflix will start streaming 4K content “within a year or two.”

I think Hunt is very serious about this. Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) shot its very first original production, House of Cards, in 4K, at a cost of over $100 million. The Netflix revival of Arrested Development was also shot in 4K.

Meanwhile, returning to Sony’s 4K future: At the beginning of the year, it said it would have a U.S. launch of the first consumer oriented 4K video distribution service sometime in the summer.

But Sony Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:SNE) and Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) and all the other would be 4K distributors have to acknowledge the elephant in the room. The amount of information that Ultra HD requires to be pushed through Internet service providers’ pipes may prove too much for them to handle, at least in the near term. How does a 100GB-plus download for a typical movie sound?

So, in the meantime, getting consumers to shoot their own 4K productions on a Sony 4K camera equipped smartphone may be the company’s best — if not only — selling point for their Ultra HD TV sets. At least for now.

The article The World’s Best Smartphone Camera — From Sony? originally appeared on Fool.com and is written by Dan Radovsky.

Dan Radovsky has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends and owns shares of Amazon.com and Netflix.

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