| Louie said: Yeah, a friend of mine bought a 4K TV last year and while the difference was noticeable while watching it was nowhere near the jump from 480p to 720p/1080p. As you said, you need a big TV to appreciate the difference - which reminds me that I'll also need a new shelf as my current 47" TV is almost too big already. I do appreciate HDR though, I think color vibrancy is one of the most important things when it comes to displays. For now, I'm happy with my PS4 Slim and 1080p content and I'll probably wait for the next generation of consoles to arrive before I make the jump to 4K. It feels a bit like back in 2005/2006 when Sony and Microsoft were heavily pushing HD gaming but only 1/10 households actually owned an HD TV: The time is just not right yet if you are not a tech enthusiast. But of course, when I feel the itch to buy a new TV it'll be a 4K model. |
You probably won't have a choice anymore between 1080p or 4K. I tried to find a good 1080p set, doesn't exist here anymore. There are still budget 1080p tvs but if you want good color and black level, stay away from those. But indeed the jump is far smaller than dvd to blu-ray. What you do get with 4K uhd is less compression artifacts. On a 4K set they do become more noticeable, also with blu-ray.
And no matter how great the tv is, most of our tv viewing is still cable, which comes in at ~7mbps mpeg-2 720p/1080i 8 bit 4:2:0 chroma subsampling. The tv renders all the macroblocking quite clearly lol.
