| JazzB1987 said: Well im to lazy to use a calculator and to exactly find out how far I am away from my screen but. Im playing and watching movies on my 2 meter wide screen. In 1280x800. Its awesome and its more than enough. I had a 42" FullHD TV and I am glad I now have this screen. I returned the TV after 2 years of use and got full refund xD (they sold me the wrong model in the first place and I used it and waited almost 2 years to complain So i got a TV rented for 2 years for free) The problem is people and technology are not able to see/reproduce motion resolution of 1080p let alone 4k etc. So there is no point in a 4k display unless you like slow motion and images. (guess why they use slowmotion to demonstrate fullHD material on full HD tv's) Alot of movies also have static images and slow moving characters in close up / conversation scenes. But this is really rare in games so whatever. |
You are partly right about the moving images with 1080p. Blu-ray and especially streaming content and tv broadcast use way too much compression for moving images to look good. Slow motion is neccesary otherwise half the olympic efforts would not be vissible at all in the so called HD broadcasts. Analog tv looks better in motion then the 6-7 mbps mpeg2 1080i broadcasts we usually get.
Blu-ray at average 30 mbps is still compressed down to 2-3% of the original data stream. Pause any heavy action scene and the result is closer to 480p.
Gaming at 1080p RGB looks a lot clearer in motion then any blu-ray film can provide. No compression, full color reproduction, 60fps. I can definitely see the benefit in motion from that.
The first available 4K movie runs in Cineform format at average 300 mbps, 10 x blu-ray. (also higher color depth and less chroma subsampling) That should look way better downscaled to a 1080p display as well. A new movie format is ofcourse an easier sell if it has a better max resolution. Personally I would already jump on 300 mbps 1080p content without chroma subsampling.
There are other small advantages to 4K displays. More pixels reduces artifacts from the display and upscaling 720p to 2160p works better then to 1080p.
