The achingly gradual transition to 4K just got a slight speed boost: Samsung has introduced the world’s first—but certainly not last—4K Blu-ray player. Now all we need is something to put in it.

The device, shown off at the IFA consumer electronics showcase in Berlin, will play back content at four times the resolution of your current Blu-ray player, just as soon as studios can churn out enough ultra high-definition Blu-ray discs to make owning one worth it. 20th Century Fox has reportedly committed to the physical format, with others likely to follow; the Blu-ray Disc Association counts among its board of directors content heavyweights like Disney, Universal, Sony, and Warner Brothers. Lionsgate and Paramount are affiliated as well.

It’s that group that put its weight behind the Ultra HD Blu-ray spec that allows for steroidal Blu-ray players like Samsung’s new UBS-K8500. While there are plenty of Blu-ray players currently on the market that offer 4K upscaling, these new devices play genuine UHD content, and offer other perks like high dynamic range (HDR) and 10-bit color, which allows for a color gamut of 1.07 billion, versus the current generation’s 8-bit color and its (still impressive, but much smaller) gamut of 16.7 million.

Or rather, they will, when they’re actually available. Samsung expects the UBS-K8500 to hit the market next year for an unspecified price. When it does, it’ll solve one of the main problems facing the limited 4K movies and TV shows that currently exist. UHD content provides a much better image, provided you have a large enough TV screen, but today it’s almost exclusively available digitally. Those are huge files to stream and store, beyond most people’s bandwidth capabilities. A 4K Blu-ray disc works the same no matter what your Internet connection, and should also edge out its streaming equivalent for quality.

The bigger hurdle to 4K Blu-ray adoption, of course, is whether physical media carries any weight to begin with anymore. Unlike the first transition from DVD to Blu-ray, when digital downloads were still a nascent business and stacks of discs were the norm, this move comes at a time when the concept of owning a shiny movie-playing pancake feels as antiquated as carrying around a pocket calculator.

Or maybe 4K streaming will be a pain for so long, and the benefits of a 4K picture so abundantly clear, and the range of available 4K content so plentiful and diverse, that we’ll have no choice but to embrace our UHD Blu-ray future. Either way, it sounds like we’ve got plenty of time to figure it all out.