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| gatito said: No sane person with a 4K TV would buy a PS4 now. Sony really screwed up. |
No sane person with a 1080p tv would buy a 360 either, right? And streaming wasn't even widely adopted yet.
Anyway I would be interested in a downscaling 4K UHD player. My projector can display 4:4:4 full RGB at 1080p. UHD discs contain 4:2:0 4K video, meaning 1920x1080 color resolution. (blu-ray has 960x540 color resolution) I bet a downconversion to 4:4:4 1080p with one of the already longer available wider color spaces than the standard rec.709 of blu-ray would make a calibrated 1080p tv look stunning, 4 x the color resolution of blu-ray. So far most 4K UHD discs are made by upscaling 4:4:4 2K masters anyway. The ps3 already supported deep color and x.v. color, ps4 probably too.
Why does 4K look better on 1080p monitors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIf9h2Gkm_U
But no, the tv industry wants you to buy a new tv while never having used 1080p tv to its full capabilities. And just like 1080p 4K tvs will never see 4:4:4 video content besides store demo loops.
Actually it seems the Samsung UBD-K8500 can downscale to 1080p, albeit to 4:2:0, still seems to have better results. (higher bbandwidth source, chroma subsampling after decompression instead of before lossy compression)
https://tapatalk.com/topic/2337057-47413
If the XBox One S can play UHD discs on HDMI 1.4 1080p tvs as well, that would be another nudge for me to buy one.
