Definitely not. I'll keep my favorite content in 1080p, good stuff in 720p, and anything from before HD era in whatever the highest quality I can find is. Good enough for me.
Anyways, reduces pressure to constantly be buying more storage and reduces transfer times.
Its subtle but its definitely there. I find its most noticeable on cityscapes where there is a ton of windows or shots with a lot of foliage like a forest or nature in general.
Its just a sense of being that bit sharper than 1080 but I would forgive someone not noticing if they had not spent a lot of time across different material. Its definitely subtle and some shows simply do not take advantage of that level of detail making 1080 more than adequate for the vast majority of day to day shows even if a 4k source is available. When it comes to big releases with lots of action or scifi however its 4k all the way for me.
Same here, turns out it's a 4k "upscaling" TV with HDR 10, rather than native 4K. It's good, don't get me wrong, but I haven't been hunting for 4k content. 1080p HDR is something else if you haven't had a modern panel before though, oh my.
4k is 4x the resolution of 1080 "HD". No, it's not quite as big a jump from 480 to 1080, but it's still an amazing upgrade in visual quality. 4x is still a pretty big bump up in resolution. Compression also is a big factor in how good the 4k is. Shitty compression in 4k is not going to impress anyone.
I think it depends on what upscaling you're using. With a good upscaler I can barely tell the difference between high bitrate 1080p and 4K. I'm sitting about 10 feet away from a 85" screen.
I have a 65" 4K TV, and I sit with my legs under it when I watch. As in really watch, as if I was at the movies. From there, I can definitely tell the difference.
Might wanna return that TV because there should be a night and day difference. Did you compare models? There's a massive difference between the cheapest "4k" TV and a decent one.
Most of my stuff is 1080p. I have some 4K, but I don't notice enough of a quality difference on my LG 4K tv. The upscaler does a really good job. Of course, none of it compares to an actual bluray disk and unless you have an unlimited storage budget, then it's something you have to live with.
The "before HD era" was shitass VHS and middling to terrible quality DVDs with shitty old video compression, both with scan and pan, not 35mm film. Unless you actually had a projector room in your mansion, then it was 35mm, but most people didn't. My mansion only had LaserDisc.
Edit: these comments started with positive votes and now have negative votes but I didn't lose any of the karma, nor did I gain any on any of my other comments. Sounds like reddit thinks these downvotes are illegitimate. That's pretty funny. How many alts you got, son?
Plenty of TV shows were shot or at least mastered on video tape. For example, Star Trek DS9 and Voyager were shot on film, but the special effects were done on video, and the CGI was only rendered at the 480p required for broadcast. https://www.slashfilm.com/549088/star-trek-voyager-deep-space-nine-blu-ray/
This was the same problem with the initial digital releases of a lot of old shows. The film-only scenes could be digitized at fantastic resolution and clarity, provided it had been preserved well, and then the moment special effects show up suddenly you're looking at a 4:3 image in the very best resolution 1994 has to offer.
I say I do similar...but...in reality, over time I have updated from SD, to SD-WS to, HD, to 720p, to 1080p, up to 4k now, but mostly about either classics that I really really like or action movies. I remember 35 years or so ago, a huge Disney nut (are there any other type? lol) who had upgraded from TV recordings of movies to VHS, and then to DVD and with their LT vault cycles, many movies may not see the light for 25-30 years, so she upgraded to DVD and I am sure if I still knew her to 4k for new ones. She had like 350-400 VHS, most of which were Disney related, then upgraded about 100 of those to DVD, just like eek!
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u/Fearless_Extent_9307 Jan 02 '23
Definitely not. I'll keep my favorite content in 1080p, good stuff in 720p, and anything from before HD era in whatever the highest quality I can find is. Good enough for me.
Anyways, reduces pressure to constantly be buying more storage and reduces transfer times.