| greenmedic88 said: It will be sharper. Not night and day difference, but noticeably sharper when looking at an actual 4K display with video actively rendering. At that point, it's going to depend upon how close the viewer is to the screen and the size of the screen. But at normal living room viewing distances, it won't make a difference. Those who play with 4k displays at a desk and play seated at the desk will probably be able to tell, as will the odd duck console player who stands within arm's reach of their display when they play. It feels like this discussion has been covered ad nauseum already when 1080p displays and the 7th gen were new. |
I think the bolded part is that part in all this most people are refusing to factor in.
Already with 1080p vs 720p/900p... sitting at average viewing distances in living room settings (7-12ft) it's already difficult to tell resolutions apart. Or at the very least one has to look harder to tell 900p apart from 1080p than they would say 720p from 1080p.
The simple truth is that that becomes even harder every pixel more than 1080p we go. The difference between 1800p to 2160p is not gonna be anywhere near as obvious as 900p to1080p (which in of itself wasn't even that obvious to begin with.
And from all indications, those that has seen the truck in action basically all see that unless standing about 1-3ft away from the TV it's all but impossible to tell the difference. . And I would really like to know who uses a 55"+ tv from under 3 feet away.
JRPGfan said:
Someone from neogaf tried to explain what they understood of it in a gif:
Yeah the end result might not be as good as native 4k but it apparently gets close. Jaggies are issue? does it need to be run in a higher resolution? |
That gif isn't even a good description of how checkerboard works in the PS4.
With that gif it all starts from a 1080p image. Checkerboard starts from at least the pixel equivalent of two 1080p images. so something more like 2560x1440p/3200x1800p.....etc then checkerboards from there. this is why you end up with an image that is at least better than native 1440p but has the resolution detail of 4k without the sharpness of 4k.
But like I said above, that sharpness will really come down to how close you are to the TV. If at 12ft away some find it hard telling the difference between. 900p and 1080p, I strongly doubt anyone will honestly at a glance spot the difference between native 4k and checkerboard 4k at anything further than 4ft away.
But that's left to be seen. By this time next month we will all know for certain.
