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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Lets face it, 4k is a Scam

vivster on 16 June 2016
SnakeDrake said:
Watch a Korean idol girls group music video on a 4K TV and then tell me its worth it.

any links?



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ktay95 on 16 June 2016

OLED is also a scam, shit looks the same as any other LED LCD screen -_-



vivster on 16 June 2016
Intrinsic said:

Just this morning i got the chamce of going to a store that allowed me play some 4k content on two identical 50" TVs with the dfferemce being that one was a 4k Tv and the other a 1080p TV. And i found out something shocking. 4k is really a scam.

I also cannot see the difference between 1080p and 4k on a smartphone screen. That's why I bought a 65" TV.



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ktay95 on 16 June 2016
SnakeDrake said:
Watch a Korean idol girls group music video on a 4K TV and then tell me its worth it.

Every time I see an LG TV they are playing a Girls Generation live concert on there
Despite it being muted I can still sometimes tell what song they are preforming



Chevinator123 on 16 June 2016

Isnt jaggies more present in a game then movies though? so 4k would benefit games more then movie?



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ArnoldRimmer on 16 June 2016
DirtyP2002 said:

Let me get this straight:
We raged, went nuts, started fights and insulted each other for 900p upscaled to 1080p vs native 1080p.

But now, 1080p vs 4K --> Not a big deal.

And yet, this makes perfect sense once one understands that it all depends on screen size and distance to the screen.

Seriously, the two users who have posted this diagram

are the only ones who have posted something reasonable, pretty much everyone else has been posting stupid (because oversimplified) statements.



Pemalite on 16 June 2016
Intrinsic said:

Just this morning i got the chamce of going to a store that allowed me play some 4k content on two identical 50" TVs with the dfferemce being that one was a 4k Tv and the other a 1080p TV. And i found out something shocking. 4k is really a scam.

Now i have 20/20 vision, and i was initially standing around 10ft from the TVs and I could just not see the difference between the two images. Absolutely none at all. NOTHING. So i started invhing closer to the TVs. When i got to around 5ft, i still couldn't see the difference, but at this point, if i squinted really hard i could kimda syart making out the individual pixels on the 1080p TV. But this required that I fovus on a partivular point on the screen and squint superhard to see them. 

Now i feel that like 3D, 4k is ome of those hyped up things from a different display doctrine that has just unnesecerily made its way to the consumer TV space. 

On a PC, sitting less than 3ft from a monitor and staring at a 27-32" screen i can clearly see why 4k could be better, barely than say a 1400p monitor. But at 10ft, its just useless.

And i typically use a 110" 1080p screen at home, sitting at 10ft, and even then i could hardly make out thr pixels unless im looking at a pure white screen and focus at a point and squint. 

Please discuss..... I am beginnig to think this is jist a collective brain wash to make people upgrade their TVs. 

Problem number 1: It was only a 50" TV.

Problem number 2: You can have vision that exceeds 20/20. I.E. 20/10 vision is better than 20/20. A Hawk has 20/2.

I will assume the store in question wasn't rendering a game at 4k resolution? Rendering a game and a video stream are very different, video games tend to be 'cleaner' and simpler so you can typically pick up flaws easier.



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Azzanation on 16 June 2016

4k is far from a scam. Its called Tech progress.



m0ney on 16 June 2016

1080p content looks like 1080p content no matter if you watch it on 4k or 8k or 32k or gadzillion k



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ArchangelMadzz on 16 June 2016
Seihaku said:
ArchangelMadzz said:

Difference between 720p to 1080p is noticeable.

900p to 1080p is kind of arguable, I can see it on my monitor when I played AC Unity on my PS4.

 

1080p to 4k, if someone (op) argues there is no difference, I'm not even joking when I say an eye test is in order.

Resolution changes are far more noticeable in gaming than in movies.

Well I've only seen 4k in video and it was obviously superior instantly, so then the gaming difference will be massive.



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