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| Guitarguy said: No worries :) It is almost shocking that movies made in the last 2-3 years were still finished on a 2k DI....The Martian was a big one cause of its massive budget and was only released last year. Bit decieving on movie studios to claim it is 4K Ultra HD but I suppose it technically is 'up-rezzed' to 4k. This is one of the many reasons by I do not own a UHD TV currently, as the content for it is either not there yet, extremely limited or half-assed(like this 2K DI business). |
There are still some benefits, less compression artifacts, 4x the color resolution and 4x the color precision with HDR. At least those 2K digital master formats are in 4:4:4 10 bit color. So basically you finally get to see what 1080p is fully capable off. No wonder they say that color makes a much bigger difference as the gray scale resolution is essentially still the same :/
If there is a 4K UHD player that can downsample to 4:4:4 xvYCC 1080p, or full RGB 1080p than it would still look a big step above blu-ray on my projector. (Unfortunately my tv doesn't support 4:4:4, instead converts everything to 4:2:0 subsampling before displaying. Early 1080p lcd) If anyone can, Sony can do it with the ps4.
