Sony’s PlayStation 4 to support 4K resolution - Yahoo News

[NiKKoM]

brendude13 said:

NiKKoM said:
So what content is 4k? even in the movie industry 4k camera aren't used widely.. there are like 5 hollywood movies shot in 4k.. can't see television stations switching to 4k soon.. heck they just spended a lot of money just to get everyting in 1080p..

Almost every movie ever made has been shot on film excluding a few movies from the past decade. The films aren't digital and don't have pixels, but they have quality comparable to at least digital 4k resolution, even movies from the 60's, hence the reason why you see older films being remastered on blu-ray.

http://dialectmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/large-dr-no-blu-ray8.jpg

Dr. No on blu-ray.

Yes the common story on the web is that 35mm equals 4K but what people don't tell or know is that it's only on if the full frame of 36mm x 24 mm is used...
no movie have used that cause of aspect ratio and soundtrack stored :


above is the full 36mm x 24mm frame... as you can see the ratio in which movies are recorded aren't using the full frame..
You can ask any DCP converter that also depending on the ISO value a 35mm will result in 2.5K to 3.2K movies... which is awesome for bluray at 1080p but not 4K. sure you can scan them on 4K or even 8K and upscale it..  but the source material isn't shot in that..