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Do you notice the different between 4k and 1080p?

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Remember when TV wasn't even in 720p but some kind of potato resolution?

I don't know how we ever survived back then.
 
If the content was shot in 4K, absolutely. The difference is HUGE.


And you don't even need to be close to the TV to notice it. I'd reckon you would need a very bad vision to not notice it.
 
I noticed a drastic difference, yes. I haven't seen much, just sitting around BestBuy while my GF and/or friend grabs movies and looks at iPads. But there's a major difference.
 
If we're talking film, compression bitrate tends to be way more important than resolution. And you're not gonna get uncompressed. I'm going by 1080p vs. smallerp, though, as I haven't used a 4K display.
 
The best way if you want to really put this to the test is go to a store that does high end av. I think I posted in another thread selfridges audio visual department in London is actually sensational. They're constantly running 4k native content and for the whether I was standing 30cm or 30 meters away the increase in detail was staggering, one of the most beautiful things I've seen.

Trying to look at comparison images or YouTube videos etc really isn't going to really do it justice from my experience
 
I sit about two meters from a 55" tv, and I can see the difference between pixels, unlike on my Tablet where I have to zoom in with a camera to see where the pixels end.

Nothing I get bothered with though.
 
I just bought a 24" 4K monitor. Watched some native 4K content and the level of detail was pretty staggering. You can notice it. Whether it's worth it at this stage though I can't say. I only bought it because of scaling annoyances in Windows as my laptop screen is QHD+ and that in tandem with a 1080p second screen was horrible.
 
For video content I only notice at unreasonably close distances. Maybe when 80+inch televisions become the affordable norm I'll care some but I have doubts. I'm still constantly in awe of how beautiful 1080p is on our 90" projection screen.

Within ten years I'd like to see projectors mostly eliminated in favor of 80+ inch wall paper monitors. I'm more interested in that than 4k.
 
terrisus said:
I don't notice the difference between 1080p and 480i, so...
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Of course you can, have you ever seen a 4k TV next to a 1080p in best buy? It's like a night and day difference! I feel like I can walk into the 4k screen and just be there
 
I'm not a videophile at all. My current TV is an old 720p set that's probably 9-10 years old. A couple weeks ago I started thinking it might die soon so I began researching options online. I was convinced that for the price I'd just get a nice 1080p set

Then I went to the store and saw a House of Cards demo in 4k. Huge, Huge difference in picture quality/clarity. I will definitely be getting a 4k tv even if there isn't a lot of day 1 content for me.
 
To me it's like the difference between 720p and 1080p, and that's with Netflix content. If you're far back you just know it looks really good, and if you're closer you can tell the detail is all there. Once you hit 70 inches or so it's probably easier to differentiate.
 
Been debating getting one for awhile now. And by debating I mean saving. Want to get a 55 inch 4k. Are lg tvs good? I usually stick to Samsung or Sony. But I could save like 400 getting lg. actually what about Vizio?
 
Yes. It's easily noticable. Can't believe that people really pretend that there is no difference. I guess that they probably never saw 4k content
 
Went from a 59" 1080p set to a 70" 4K set and the difference is pretty substantial, even on upscaled content. But Native 4K content even these streaming services look amazing, can't wait to see lossless content though from a 4K BluRay.
 
dork said:
Been debating getting one for awhile now. And by debating I mean saving. Want to get a 55 inch 4k. Are lg tvs good? I usually stick to Samsung or Sony. But I could save like 400 getting lg. actually what about Vizio?
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My parents bought a LG 55 inch 4k TV and it's really good. Now I'm looking for a LG TV myself and the reviews are very positive towards LG TVs, so I guess you could save some money and buy yourself a LG TV.
 
Its all relative

the difference between 4k and 1080p is based entirely around size of display and distance from the display
 
terrisus said:
I've seen 480i screens next to 720p screens next to 1080p screens and can't tell the difference between any of them.




Speak for yourself.
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That's just impossible or you're making this up OR you're mistaking what you saw. I would still suggest either seriously getting your eyes checked or I don't know to be honest. What kind of monitor or TV are you using at the moment? If you're using a 720p or 1080p just google a low resolution screenshot and expand it to fit the screen, surely you can notice the difference?
 
At the store, yes. I usually stand from a kissing distance to the TV.

From 3 meters, I do notice added clarity, but not enough to warrant 4 times the computing power required to display it gaming wise. I hope next-gen consoles shoot for solid 1080p 60fps with decent AA instead of 4K 30fps or whatever. So many wasted pixels for diminishing returns and that 4K stays as something PC users can brag about (and they are almost always very close to the monitors too). Those monster GPU's better keep sweating.

Edit: Cropped detail images do no do 1080p justice. Using the same methodology, 8K should easily trump 4K in terms of detail on a smaller crop.
 
Yoshichan said:
Dude, perfect timing on this thread... I saw my first 4K TV and 4K footage just a couple of days ago and I couldn't fucking believe my eyes.

LISTEN TO ME, GAF.

When I first saw 1080p footage (Casino Royale) on my brand new 1080p Sony Bravia, I told myself that I'd never, EVER see clearer and crisper picture. It was a completely erotic feeling that I knew I'd never experience again. Casino Royale took my 1080p-virginity and it was a a great feeling.

But the feeling was obviously gone after a year or so.

Or so I thought.

Like I previously mentioned, a couple of days ago I went to a local electronic shop and found a Sony Bravia 4K with 4K footage running on it... I was passing through the store quickly but my eyes suddenly just reacted to the quality of the footage. Immediately I started getting that erotic feeling again, the exact same feeling that I had in 2007. So I sat down on the ground and my jaw dropped and I drooled on the ground.

I sat there for like 30 minutes until the footage repeated itself and I was prepared to re-watch it, but it was awkward sitting there for so long... but mother of God is all that I have to say.

MOTHER OF ALL GODS.
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Same reaction I had when I first saw proper 4K.
 
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