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Guitarguy on 22 March 2016
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SvennoJ said:
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.


Sony are one of the few companies that still cater for videophiles. Their Bravia engine is great at upscaling sub-1080P content(retro consoles via the optimal connections), their TV's still contain component input(I hope they never go away) and their TV's generally have the least amount of input lag. I do think it is still a few years away where we everything(games, blu ray, TV etc) will be true 4K though. I'm fine with waiting as the prices of 4K TVs will drop significantly. But then there is OLED... HOT DAMN!!!