'I'm NOT jealous of Beyoncé!': Kelly Rowland attempts to backtrack after admitting to feeling 'enraged' over ex bandmate's success in new song

Kelly Rowland insists she’s not jealous of Beyoncé.

The recent disavowal follows the debut of her latest single Dirty Laundry, which features a confessional narrative appearing to reference her Destiny’s Child cohort’s runaway success since the trio split up to pursue solo careers.

The 32-year-old croons in the song about coming to terms with her friend and former bandmate's rise as a superstar and the feelings of rage that surface in the wake of being left behind.

Confessional singer: Kelly Rowland insists her new single Dirty Laundry is not about her jealousy over Beyonce's success, pictured in New York, on Wednesday

Supportive friend: Kelly revealed that Beyonce is a big fan of her new album Talk A Good Game, pictured in New York, on Monday

In the song, Rowland talks about how the meteoric success of her friend ends up 'turnin' me against my sister' as she is left enraged and feeling trapped.
Despite the apparent lyrical disclosure, Kelly told In Touch: ‘I’m not saying I’m jealous of her [Beyoncé] by any means!

‘It’s so sad that people always go straight to that place [of jealousy]. It’s ridiculous.’

Personal: The 32-year-old says that her confessional single is more about her own struggles than it is about Beyonce

Although Kelly admits that the song does offer some clues to her personal life.

In the single, for her fourth solo album Talk A Good Game, Kelly belts out: 'When my sister was on stage killin' it like a (expletive)/ I was enraged, feelin' it like a (expletive)/ Bird in a cage/ You would never know what I was dealin' with.’

But the singer explains that the song is more about her than it is about her childhood friend: ‘It’s basically about me going through some struggles in my life while she [Beyoncé] was doing her thing.’

The explanation may be in keeping with another lyric from her confessional single, which appears to admit a sense of pride over her ‘sister’s’ success: ‘[We] went our separate ways but I was happy she was killin' it.’

Revealing lyrics: Rowland's new song talks about how the meteoric success of an unnamed friend leaves her enraged and feeling trapped

Kelly goes on to say in the song: 'Bittersweet she was up, I was down/ No lie, I feel good for her but what do I do now? ... Post-Survivor, she on fire/ Who wanna hear my (expletive)?'

While the lyrics could indicate some bad blood between the former band mates, Kelly says Beyoncé is ‘incredibly supportive’.

She also revealed that Beyoncé heard Dirty Laundry soon after it was cut in the studio and only had good things to say about the track, explaining: ‘She was proud of me and thought the song was incredible.’

Star showing: Kelly was in the Big Apple for an appearance on Good Morning America

In late May the singer performed the song to a packed house in Washington D.C., where she told the audience, according to Us Weekly: 'Doing this song for me was so therapeutic.'
Adding: 'Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.'

Meanwhile, Kelly is contemplating a reunion for Destiny’s Child, saying: ‘If the ladies want to do it. I’d totally be excited. It’d be beautiful!’

Kelly will be on her Lights Out Tour until June 28 and her fourth album is scheduled for release June 18.

Reunited: Kelly, Beyone and Michelle Williams reunited as Beyonce headlined the halftime show at the Super Bowl game in New Orleans in February

Enjoying the summer break: Al Pacino dons tuxedo jacket as he takes his son Anton James shopping

They're both fans of not-so-basic black.

Al Pacino donned a fancy tuxedo jacket for a Beverly Hills shopping trip Wednesday alongside his 'ninja' son Anton James.

The 73-year-old acting legend, who never married, appeared a bit gaunt as he escorted the 12-year-old youngster through the posh neighbourhood.

The movie star and the ninja: Al Pacino donned a fancy tuxedo jacket for a Beverly Hills shopping trip Wednesday alongside his 'ninja' son Anton James

Pacino, who has enviable head of salt-and-pepper hair for his age, also wore black trousers and a matching T-shirt.
Anton paired his own black T-shirt - featuring ninja throwing stars and nunchucks - with blue basketball shorts and black flip-flops.
The pre-teen is Al's son with Beverly D’Angelo, whom Pacino dated from 1996 to 2003, and he also has a twin sister named Olivia Rose.

The Oscar winner also has a 23-year-old daughter, Julie Marie, from his previous relationship with his acting coach Jan Tarrant.

Lost weight? The 73-year-old acting legend, who never married, appeared a bit gaunt as he escorted the 12-year-old youngster through the posh neighbourhood

Hi-yah! Anton paired his own black T-shirt - featuring ninja throwing stars and nunchucks - with blue basketball shorts and black flip-flops

The Scarface star has romanced numerous actresses including Diane Keaton, Jill Clayburgh, Penelope Ann Miller, Kathleen Quinlan, and Lyndall Hobbs.

Al recently returned from England where he packed the London Palladium for a moderated Q&A event for fans.

According to the Telegraph, the two-time Tony winner said he enjoyed making Scarface but found the Godfather trilogy 'a long, awful, tiring story.'
Pacino also revealed some of the roles he turned down over the years, including the uptight lawyer (Richard Gere) in Pretty Woman.

Famous parents: The pre-teen is Al's son with Beverly D’Angelo, whom Pacino dated from 1996 to 2003, and he also has a twin sister named Olivia Rose

'[Han Solo] was mine for the taking but I didn't understand the script,' the Any Given Sunday star said of Star Wars.

Al is looking at a very big year what with the dramedy Imagine shooting later this month and the Aristotle Onassis biopic shooting in September.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Dan Fogelman (Crazy, Stupid, Love) will helm  Imagine also starring Jennifer Garner, Michael Caine, and Annette Bening.

And the two-time Golden Globe winner will also shoot the David Gordon Green drama, Manglehorn, this fall.

Julia Roberts and Pacino? Al recently returned from England where he told the packed London Palladium about roles he turned down, including Richard Gere's part in Pretty Woman

Chewbacca and Pacino? The Any Given Sunday star revealed that '[Han Solo] was mine for the taking' but he 'didn't understand' the Star Wars script

Fanny ditches Belgian roots to show support for Mario... and the lucky charm pays off again for Italy in Brazil

Mario Balotelli kept up his fine form in the Confederations Cup in Brazil, and it seemed he was seeking to impress yet again with girlfriend Fanny Neguesha in the crowd cheering him on.
The model showed her support for the 22-year-old by donning an Italy strip in his side's 4-3 win over Japan, ditching her own Belgian roots for the maverick striker.

Changing allegiance: Neguesha shows her support for Balotelli by wearing an Italy shirt

Balotelli scored to put Italy 3-2 up in Recife, converting past Eiji Kawashima after Makoto Hasebe hand handballed in the area.
Neguesha and Balotelli have been having a fine couple of weeks, after the model posted a picture on instagram of Mario's £100,000 engagement ring earlier this month.

On form: It helped for Balotelli again, scoring for the second match in a row

Support: Neguesha watched Balotelli for the second time in Brazil, and she was the good luck charm again

But it had been reported last month that Neguesha had dumped bad boy Balotelli, days after he reportedly said the whole Real Madrid team could sleep with her if they got to the Champions League final.
Neguesha was in attendance on Sunday as Balotelli scored the winner in Italy's 2-1 win over Mexico in Brazil.

Stand out from the crowd: Neguesha was in attendance on Sunday to see Mario grab the winner, but in slightly more Samba-like attire

'Can't believe it! So crazy': New Mother Kim Kardashian goes gaga over new daughter 'who weighed in at just under 5lbs'

Kim Kardashian has opened up for the first time following the birth of her daughter over the weekend.
The 32-year-old reality star sent an email to KISS-FM host and pal Ryan Seacrest when he asked her how she was getting along since Saturday's early delivery.
'Can't believe it. So crazy!' Kim emailed to the media mogul.
During his Tuesday morning breakfast show, Ryan - who is the executive producer for Keeping Up With The Kardashians, added: 'She's very, very excited,' although he admitted he still is none the wiser about the baby's name.

Delighted: Kim Kardashian, seen here last week just three days before giving birth on Saturday, sent an email to friend Ryan Seacrest opening up about her baby joy

While sources have told InTouch magazine that 'North' is at the top of the list, it also emerged on Tuesday that Kim and Kanye West's little girl weighed in at 'under 5lbs,' according to E! Online.
Kanye, 36, was by Kim's side during the birth - but not all of the Kardashian clan were around as Kim went into labour early and unexpectedly.
She was believed to have been due on July 12 - the same date of Kanye's late mother Donda's birthday.

Proud parents: Kim and Kanye, seen on New Year's Eve, are currently choosing a name for their daughter and are said to be considering North West

Sources told E! Online: 'This was not planned. [The labour] came on very quickly,' adding: 'The whole family was dispersed all over the place!'
The insider went on: '[The baby] is healthy and Kim is doing well...There's a great sense of relief. Everyone is very happy for her and Kim is relieved [because] this was a very stressful time.'

Making contact: Ryan spoke about Kim's birth on his KIIS-FM breakfast show on Tuesday, seen here earlier this month in Beverly Hills

Apparently cameras were rolling when Kim gave birth, although apparently it is intended for family members only and will not been aired on Keeping Up With The Kardashians at Kanye's behest, according to RadarOnline.
Meanwhile Kanye is so devoted to his new baby daughter he can't bare to leave her side, a friend of Kim's revealed.
Larsa Pippen said the rapper has hardly left the room since Kim gave birth naturally at a hospital in Los Angeles on Saturday.
'He's so cute. He doesn't leave the room,' she told E! News.
'He's, like, in love with the baby. It's so cute.'
The wife of NBA superstar Scottie, Larsa a reality star herself is a close friend of Kim's, and has visited her at Cedars Sinai.
'She's doing great,' the Real Housewives of Miami star said of Kim.
'She's feeling really good and excited and the baby is so freaking cute. She's so cute.'
Kanye has not spoken publicly following his daughter's arrival.
But he did take to Twitter on Tuesday morning - to promote his new album Yeezus as it was released.
'Yeezus album now available,' he tweeted.
Kanye curtailed his promotional activities when Kim told him she 'felt strange' on Friday, instead flying to be at her side.
With the baby not due until July it had been planned that Kanye would have time to finish his work commitments before the birth.

Close friends: Larsa Pippen has been to visit Kim Kardashian in hospital, following the birth of her first child on Saturday

Taking a quick break: Kim's mother Kris Jenner was spotted running into a sushi restaurant in Calabasas on Tuesday

EXCLUSIVE: Never-seen-before risqué Penthouse modelling shots of Lauren Hutton, 19, up for auction after being found in a storage locker

She was a 19-year-old model called Mary Hall when she posed for a set of nude pictures that would end up in the pages of Penthouse magazine.
During a 1962 fashion shoot, the legendary model and actress now known as Lauren Hutton was allegedly told the photographer would waive his fees - if she would pose for something a little bit more risqué.
And now the pictures of the star, who will celebrate her 70th birthday in November, are being auctioned off after being found in the archives of the late Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione.
Businessman Jeremy Frommer, who bought the bulk of Guccione's assets from his creditors, told MailOnline: 'I think that the pictures are in such good taste. I would not want to denigrate a woman whom I have such high regard for and I'm really happy that these are being made public.
'She was absolutely stunning.'

Teenage dreams: Actress Lauren Hutton aged 19 in a risqué photo shoot. The photographs, taken in 1962 by photographer Norman Nathan, are now being sold as part of the Guccione Collection Auction.

Stunning: The young Lauren Hutton - then known as Mary Hall - stripped off for a shoot and the images were later published in the now defunct Penthouse magazine.

The photographs were taken by photographer Norman Nathan in December of 1962. And in September 1986, Penthouse magazine published seven of the 36 images.
However, the original chromes and provocative prints were only discovered recently in Bob Guccione’s personal possessions.

These images, which were taken at the very beginning of her modeling career, portray a different side of Lauren Hutton - far removed from the high-fashion image she cultivated as a Vogue cover girl.
Ironically, in many of the images, Lauren is smiling with a closed mouth because the photographer thought her famous gap between her teeth was unappealing.

'I heard that Lauren was told that ultimately she wouldn't have to pay the photographer if she would do some risqué shots with him'

Jeremy Frommer

Up for auction is a model consent form signed by Lauren, who was born Mary Laurence Hutton and briefly changed her surname to that of her stepfather Jack Hall, although he never legally adopted her.
There is also a signed check from Guccione as payment for the pictures, and copyright, made out to Norman Nathan photography.
Mr Frommer said: 'It's really mind-blowing to see not just the photographs, but clearly how much fun Lauren was having at the shoot. She has a sense of humour and a risqué attitude.
'The way the story goes, Lauren was 19 and in those days models would often pay to have fashion shoots done of themselves.
'It was very common to do that because there were so many girls vying for position and they would pay to get the exposure. These shoots were very important in the early 1960s.
'This was a similar situation and I heard that Lauren was told that ultimately she wouldn't have to pay if she would do some risqué shots with him.'

Funny girl: Lauren Hutton poses with a trash can during her photo shoot. The photos go up for auction on eBay on July 4.

Trashy: Lauren Hutton playfully put a trash can over her head.

Young beauty: Lauren Hutton was just an aspiring model as she played around during a 1962 photoshoot

During the photo shoot, playful Lauren plays with a garbage pail while wearing a bikini that she then places over her head.

In another picture, she sits topless on a stool while holding fencing gear.

Lauren went on to become one of the first supermodels after being signed by Eileen Ford in New York and 'discovered' by legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland.

She then appeared in films such as American Gigolo, playing a desperate housewives seduced by Richard Gere.

And despite her advancing years, Lauren remains an all-American icon and continues to model - baring all for a photo shoot for Big magazine at the age of 61, claiming: 'I want them (women) not to be ashamed of who they are when they're in bed.'

Now aged 69, Lauren - a keen motorcycle enthusiast - insists: 'Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be. I don’t think I will ever cut my face, because once I cut it, I’ll never know where I’ve been.'
Mr Frommer bought the bulk of Guccione's estate from his creditors as well as discovering a treasure trove of pictures in a storage locker belonging to the publisher who died in October 2010, aged 79 after going from the Forbes 400 to bankruptcy.
Discovered were unpublished nude photos of Madonna and Lauren Hutton complete with negatives and release forms, correspondence with players from Dick Cheney to the Unabomber and a woman claiming to be Fidel Castro’s lover, reels of footage and one-of-a-kind artifacts from his infamous epic “Caligula” and an unpublished manuscript.
Mr Frommer told MailOnline:'Some pieces were found in a storage locker, but the bulk of the collection was a significant purchase from a financial firm that held the assets.
'The bulk of the collection was owned by the creditors in Phoenix, Arizona. I remember when we found the Lauren Hutton pictures, I had one of my curators with me and a crew of about five guys who were loading up the contents of this collection from a warehouse in Phoenix and we opened up a particular box and it had the pictures of Madonna, Vanessa Williams and numerous others and then there was Lauren Hutton.
'I was the oldest guy there by about 15 years and the other guys were going nuts about the other pictures and I could not believe the Lauren shots, she's iconic.'

Aging gracefully:  Lauren Hutton will turn 70 in November - seen here in 2012 at the Glamour Women of the Year awards (left) and on June 4 at the Gordon Parks Foundation Awards (right) in New York

Movie star: Lauren Hutton appeared in movie classics including 1980's American Gigolo, where played a sexually frustrated wife seduced by Richard Gere.

Mr Frommer also has in his possession a picture of a young Arnold Schwarzenegger engaged in what appears to be a sex act.
He has now organised an exhibition in Soho, Manhattan, and there will also be a documentary on Guccione, called Filthy Gorgeous: The Life and Times of Bob Guccione due to air in September.
As well as this there will be a coffee table book of some of the pictures alongside an exhibition next year of Guccione's oils and sketches at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio.
To view the Lauren Hutton gallery prospective buyers can go to http://guccionecollection.com/lauren-hutton/
The auction starts on July 4 and ends on July 13.

à la mode: A young Lauren Hutton poses for a 1960s fashion shoot - that then turned into something a little more adventurous.

Coquettish: Lauren Hutton wears a shy smile as she poses for the cameras

'****ing needy kids': Friendly's waitress writes abusive message on receipt for man's Father's Day meal after he asks for extra chicken leg for his son

A father has been left appalled by waiting staff at a sports bar called Friendly's after he was handed a receipt that described his three-year-old son as a 'f****** needy kid'.
For a father's day treat, Joseph Gibson stopped for a meal at the St Louis sports bar on Sunday, after the manager lifted his usual bar on people under the age of 21.
But his request for an extra chicken leg for his son resulted in an unfriendly remark about the family being printed on the receipt.

Offensive: Joseph Gibson with his three-year-old son, who a waitress referred to as 'f****** needy' on their bill

Mr Gibson, who had been spending the day with his son at the nearby Missouri botanical gardens, says his son was well-behaved in the bar.

He was so shocked by the comment that he contacted the St Louis Post Dispatch, not because he wanted 'anything out of it. But I was pretty upset that it happened'.
Friendly's manager Denny Domachowski said the waitress meant the comment as a joke to kitchen staff and intended to delete it before handing the $13.75 bill to Mr Gibson.
'The incident shouldn't have happened, and I made sure [the waitress] understands that,' Mr Domachowski told CNN.
'She didn't mean to offend the gentleman and his son. She had a good experience with them as customers. She was just in a hurry and forgot to take that off.'

Apology: The manager of Friendly's in St Louis apologized for the inappropriate comment on a bill

He added that he apologized several times to the customer and reprimanded his employee.
Mr Domachowski added that the sports bar had made a couple of concessions to Mr Gibson on Father's Day, by allowing a child in and by agreeing to the order of a single chicken leg.
'Normally, we don't allow substitutions. I figured because it was Father's Day, we'd give him the single leg and I'd have the rest for my lunch,' he said.
Mr Gibson said he understands 'accidents can happen, but you can also do things to prevent them'.
'If it happened to me, it could happen again,' he said. 'What else are they writing about other people?'

Just bought a new TV? It's already out of date: HD, 3D, forget it! New screens 15 times sharper will mean the pictures are as clear as real life

There was indignation from many viewers recently when Dean Bell — the foul-mouthed, unemployed 'star' of Channel 4's latest so-called reality documentary, Skint — was shown spending £2,500 of his social security benefits on … a new TV.
But one wonders what Bell's reaction will be to the news that his pride and joy — a 47in high-definition affair that shows programmes in 3D, connects to the internet and uses a 'magic' remote with voice recognition — might be past its sell-by date within a year or two.
Are today's top-of-the-range HDTV sets about to become yesterday's technology? That, at least, is what television manufacturers hope and believe.

Out of date: Jim Royle (Ricky Tomlinson) holding a TV remote control

They are putting their faith in a potentially enormous development in TV technology that, they trust, will see millions of us ditch our current sets in order to buy swanky new ones.
Prepare yourself for Ultra-High Definition TV — known as UHD — which delivers pictures so crisp, colourful and realistic that, experts say, we may in future have trouble separating in our memories those things we saw on screen from those that happened in real life.
Gimmicks come and go, but true revolutions in TV do not happen too often. The emergence of colour TV in 1967 was one such step change.

The advent of flatscreen TVs more than a decade ago was another cue for people to upgrade: how many people do you know who still use a big fat cathode-ray telly as their main TV? And then, of course, there was the move from analogue TV to digital.
A few years ago, the TV companies thought they'd found their holy grail with 3D TVs. But that has proved an expensive flop.
If you go into a big TV store today, you will find plenty of TVs that happen to offer 3D — but the idea of wearing silly glasses in your living room has never taken off. (If a telly does offer 3D, it's ranked as attraction number four or five on the shop's checklist of features, just above the one that tells you what sockets are included on the back of the set.)

Are today's top-of-the-range HDTV sets about to become yesterday's technology?

So what is UHD? Why is it different, and what does it mean for our television viewing?
Currently, millions of us watch 'high definition', or 1080HD, television. The picture on such a screen contains around two million pixels, as the tiny dots that make up the picture are known.
Two million pixels might sound like a huge number, but in this day and age it's not that impressive. When you consider that TV screens have been getting bigger over the years — it's not uncommon to see 50 in screens in ordinary homes — the relatively small number of HDTV pixels results in pictures that aren't as clear as the original purveyors of high-definition promised.
But Ultra High Definition stops television looking like television. It just looks like real life — as though the screen were not there and you were simply looking through an open window at the scene.

THE GREAT BIN LADEN BAKE-OFF

Next time you bite into a shop-bought cake that tastes delicious despite having been in your cupboard for weeks, you may have Osama Bin Laden to thank.
The UK's largest cake supplier is hoping to extend the shelf life of its products by using technology that tracked down the terrorist.
'Hyperspectral imaging' can determine the temperature and chemical composition of any object.
The technology was used on top of U.S. helicopters to seek out Bin Laden in Pakistan.
Now the Finsbury Food Group — which makes cakes for Nestle, Thornton's and Disney — is working with Strathclyde University to develop a way of using the process to analyse the moisture, fat and sugar content of cakes and then predict their shelf life.
It is hoped this will allow them to produce cakes that stay tasty for longer. Yum!

Later this month, the BBC and Sony will be carrying out a joint experiment at the Wimbledon Championships. Unknown to any but a handful of viewers, the Corporation will be filming some of the action with a set of Ultra High Definition cameras.
These cameras will be taking video containing not two  million pixels per screen, but eight million.
The Corporation conducted a similar experiment at last year's Olympics, in partnership with the Japanese public broadcaster: only that time it was experimenting with an even higher definition picture, with more than 33 million pixels —more than 16 times as many as today's supposed 'high definition'.
Meanwhile, Sky has been experimenting, too. Last October, it recorded one of Arsenal's Champions League matches in UHD. And its recent natural history programme about penguins, narrated by David Attenborough, was also shot in UHD.
So what difference do these millions of extra pixels make? Iain Baird is curator of broadcast culture at the National Media Museum in Bradford. Rather brilliantly, he is also grandson of John Logie Baird, the inventor of television.
Iain was one of a select few who were allowed by the BBC to watch the live UHD pictures of the 2012 Olympics as they came in. He says the images were 'astounding'. 'It was like sitting inside the stadium,' he says. 'They only had two or three cameras, and there was no commentary, or graphics, or instant replays, so you didn't get the production values you'd normally get in a sports programme — but the picture quality was amazing.
'The detail was remarkable. You could see individual expressions on every person in the crowd.'
Others, too, speak highly of the experience. Technology expert Steve May, who has been writing about the television industry for 25 years, says it's important to realise the significance of UHD.
'People don't have a real appreciation for what this all means. When you go to a cinema and watch a digital movie projection of a Hollywood film, it was shot at two million pixels. So moving to eight million pixels is going to have a fantastic effect on the way we watch TV.'
He's seen a lot of supposedly must-have technologies, but this, he says, is a real revolution. 'It's a much more photographic experience. The sense of texture is much more pronounced. It's wonderful.'
May says that because the picture is so much more detailed, we may all want much bigger television screens to take advantage of the superior picture.
'At the moment, 50 in screens are quite common, but within a couple of years 70 in will not be uncommon,' he says.
In fact, LG and Sony are already selling sets with 84 in screens. To put that into some sort of perspective, an 84 in screen measures 7ft from the top left to the bottom right. Imagine 6ft 5in John Cleese lying diagonally across your TV, wearing a 7 in top hat. That's how big it is.
May explains that UHDTV works best if you get so close that the image fills your whole field of vision. 'That way, it's all you can see — a much more immersive way of watching TV.'
Baird adds: 'When we watch TV at the moment, we still have to suspend our disbelief — in the sense that we know we are looking at a television, whatever the programme. That effort is part of the experience of viewing.
'But UHD will change that. It will make TV more difficult to differentiate from reality — which will mean that it could become difficult to separate out memories of what we've seen on TV from our memories of real life.'
To some of us, that might not seem like an attractive prospect. There are other pitfalls, too. First, cost. Sony's 84 in UHDTV, which is available now, sells at £24,000. The LG equivalent  is £17,000. That's an awful lot of money  to spend.
But prices are likely to fall very quickly. When flatscreen first launched in 1997, a 42 in TV cost around £10,000. Now, you can pick up an equivalent telly for as little as £350 — or 3.5 per cent of the original cost.
The second problem is more fundamental. If you buy a UHD set today, there is no ultra-high-definition television to watch on it. The BBC and Sky may be filming an event here or there in UHD, but they are physically unable to broadcast the material to the rest of us.
Sure, your new TV will convert the standard HD signal into something sharper, more impressive, but it won't be an ultra-high-definition picture.
It's believed that the Hollywood studios are busy getting big movies ready for UHD formats, but it's unlikely there'll be any UHD programming on TV for at least two years, perhaps longer. And no broadcaster will guarantee its arrival, even in principle.
But the sensible money is on any problems being ironed out — and pretty soon. Why? Because the TV manufacturers desperately need UHD  to work.
Some of the biggest names in TV are in a terrible mess financially. Sharp made a loss of £3.5 billion last year, and warned investors that the future of the company could be in 'material doubt'.
Meanwhile, Sony has only just returned to profit after five loss-making years. Incredibly, the company makes more money from its life-insurance business than it does from selling TVs.
Steve May says: 'There's a big drive to get us to want this. There are a number of big consumer electronics companies that have a vested interest in getting us to upgrade our screens, otherwise they'll go out of business.
'And Hollywood wants it to take off, too, so it can sell us all those movies we've bought on video, then DVD, then Blu-Ray, one more time — in UHD.'
If this latest TV revolution is as dramatic as it sounds, we may not be able to resist.