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SvennoJ said:

I would say deep colour is more important for movies. Cinemas don't have and can't show HDR effects. Looking at 4K blu-ray reviews, the ones that are received best are because of deep colour, those with enhanced HDR effects tend to be less favorable. It is still early days, every release is different. Some still have issues with black level, a lot are upscaled from the 2K source. The Revenant seems to come out best, reference quality material, doesn't support HDR.

Ofcourse 4K tvs are currently rated on how well they can display HDR material. I assume that implies also being able to show 10 bit color as intended.

As long as we're talking about movies only, you're right. But as soon as it's about gaming and maybe future tv (high quality documentary, good tv shows) then HDR should become one of the major benefits.

 

In general:

Resolutionwise it highly depends on screensize and how far away you are. 55" and ten feet/three meters plus, there's no benefit from resolution. Hell, i'm really slightly shortsighted and without glasses it's sometimes impossible to spot the difference between scaled 720p and 1080p.

With 80" and more at ten feet i'd definitely go for 4K today though.