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SvennoJ on 17 June 2016
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captain carot said:
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.

There are some other benefits ofcourse. Upscaling to 4K will make any sub 1080p source look better, simply more pixels available to scale to. Plus my current 1080p tv renders everything chroma subsampled, downconverting RGB to rec.709. A 4K tv would at least show the full color information of a 1080p RGB source. And if you use any image settings like color temp, contrast, saturation etc, a 10 bit panel will be better at displaying the results.

You won't be disappointed with a 4K tv, yet whether those small benefits are worth upgrading atm at a premium price, probably not. You don't need to be able to see every individual pixel to see a better picture, however upgrading now might be a bit early. Who knows we'll get full HDR tvs next year or the year after.

Anyway, if my current TV breaks, I'll be replacing it with a 4K tv. No point in replacing with 1080p again. Unless there is some awesome deal on a 1080p oled set. But I hope it keeps working until the dust settles on HDR. Do not want the equivalent of an expensive HD ready set again that turned out not to accept 720p. Who knows which HDR format(s) the Neo and Scorpio are going to support.