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Turkish on 10 February 2013
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Mazty said:
Turkish said:
Mazty said:
Turkish said:

There is always a need to surpass that, as long as tech can be improved that is. Currently there is a pixelwar going on on smartphones and tablets, my future  5" phone will have a 1080p screen, I'd definetly want something better than that on my 10x bigger tv.

We won't see retail games in 4K, I never said that, but we'll definetly have few PSN games native at that resolution, with upscale capabilties for 720/1080p games and movies, Sony will advertise it with its 4K tv sets.


The great think with smart phones and tablets are the users are not asking for BF3 to run on their iPad. 

I don't think you understand how resolution works. To notice 4k on a TV, it has to be 60+ inches. The reason phones/tablets use HD is because you are much closer to them. It is really quite pointless to have 4k on a 24" screen. Or, that is what we are led to believe. 

I seriously, seriously doubt any PSN game will be at 4k because it seems a waste of time to program a game in that resolution when a vast, vast minority will have 4k TV's. Even if their price comes down, I know I wouldn't want a 72" TV in my living room because it'd be too damn big xD

Sony will advertise it as a 4k scaling media player - nothing more imo. 

No I don't think you understand resolution works, on a long enough distance even 480p won't be noticeable, I sit 2,5m from my 50" plasma and its definetly not sharp enough. Neither did you seem to understand me, I'll repeat again: retail games won't be 4K but certain PSN games most definetly will.  Phones and tablets are going upwards 400ppi, most people's eyes can't resolve sharpness above 229ppi, its not like our phone displays needed to be HD(or use HD like you put it), they have been sharp enough for years in the first place so the argument of "you cant distnguish pixels now" is rather pointless, if anything higher resolutions than you need on phones are bad for your battery life and performance. When the ps3 came out no one had a 1080p tv, 4K is the next big thing, like it or not. Yes they cost a lot thanks for the obvious but so did the first plasma sets and 1080p tvs.


And i'll repeat again - so few people will own a 4k TV programming a game in 4k is a fucking waste of time.

You also forget that higher resolution = selling point for phones as the average phone owner has no idea what they are buying but "a bigger resolution is better, right?".

You are also completely ignoring the point that 4k TV's are all massive. 60+ inches. For many, many people, that is simply too big. 1080p was about getting the price to come down. As I said, even if 4k comes down in price, the sets are just too big for the vast majority of people.

Please address what I have actually said. You just repeated yourself and ignored my points. 

Ultimately, the issue with 4k is not the price, it's the size, and that won't change over time.


1080p was about getting the price to come down? What are you talking about? You don't make sense. The first 50" 1080p plasma cost around $15,000 back in 2006. Over time they got cheaper, the average tv size has been getting bigger and will continue to get bigger as they gradually become affordable. I hear today many people say they wished they bought a bigger tv afterwards getting a 42-46" set. You're again ill informed about the sizes 4K come in, Sony will release a 55" 4K tv in spring. Here's the average screen sizes from 2002-2009. TVs got bigger and they will continue to get bigger.

 

 

 

In due time 4K will be affordable, once they're affordable so will there be an increase in content. If there was no substance to the quest for greater resolution, then no one would've cared about Retina displays or 1080p on smartphones. 4K is another part of the pixel density war.