is it stupid to buy a 1080p TV over 4K in this day and age?
Is it stupid to buy a 1080p TV over 4K in this day and age?
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Anthony Foster
Imo the only pro of having a 4k tv is playing video games on it (but you need to check the latency).
Connor Jones
No, in fact it's the smartest thing you can do right now.
4K video is actually 1080p video because of chroma subsampling.
Wait until 8K movies become popular.
Daniel Green
>4K video is actually 1080p video because of chroma subsampling.
Can I get a rundown bon this? I thought I was crazy to think that there wasn't much of a difference.
Jacob Price
*On
Aaron White
our eyes aren't as sensitive to changes in color vs. grayscale so yuv420p video takes advantage of this by preserving the grayscale quality of the image rather than the chromatic quality in order to save space. yuv444p preserves both equally so you don't get nearly as much color bleed but the video takes up twice as much space (somebody correct me if im wrong because i'm just regurgitating something i heard here months ago).
James Price
Basically raw uncompressed video is fucking huge. With a typical 2 hour movie over 1,200 GB. So we apply lossy video encoding to that raw video to squeeze the size down to 15-30GB you see on blu-ray discs. One way such huge compression is achieved is by resizing the color information of the video because most people are ass and distinguishing those subtle differences.
Aaron Taylor
Yes. You miss out on 10-bit, HDR, and a bunch of other memepv tier settings that 1080 sets don't have.
John Young
None of that shit is gonna un-chroma subsample your video.
Caleb White
Just bought a TCL p605 4k tv shit is so cash. Use it as a monitor with 444 chroma
Benjamin Russell
where can I buy a 1080p 42" HDR OLED in Australia?
Luis Rivera
Does not exist
Luke Richardson
>is it stupid to watch 1080p anime on a 4k screen
yes buzz off jew worshiping consumerist
Nathaniel Jones
fug, I want a OLED for my cupboard
Hunter Hall
Not just chroma subsampling.
But also Bayer sensors.
Each pixel only consists of one measured color, the other two colors are interpolated from adjacent pixels.
For a perfect 4K image you indeed need an 8K sensor.
Liam Lewis
>over 1,200 GB
shiieeeet
how do the studios store them
Justin Gomez
I have a 4k tv but can't tell the difference
Luis Cook
So what you're saying is that 1080p TVs are more like 480p because of chroma subsampling? Because that's exactly what it sounds like.
John Taylor
it's more like the color is 480p upscaled and applied to 1080p grayscale if it uses 4:2:0, which most compressed video does.
Joshua Roberts
You realize 1.2TB is just a small hard drive?
It's nice and compact compared to the film days.
They used to have entire rooms full of 35mm film reels.
Mason Reed
Because broadcasts are only in 1080p at best, idiot.
Parker Wood
In other words 4K does have a significant advantage over 1080. Shot yourself in the foot there bud.
And that's what demosaicing is there for idiot.
Joshua Long
He's talking about the data, not he hardware.
When you watch a "4K" movie on an 1080p screen you will get close to perfect 1080p.
When you watch "4K" movie on a 4K screen it's barely better than the one on the 1080p screen.
Jonathan Cooper
So it sounds like a 4k screen is more future proof.
Hudson Price
>When you watch "4K" movie on a 4K screen it's barely better than the one on the 1080p screen.
Are you retarded?
Camden Moore
I don't see the point in "High Definition" since our eyes only see in 480p.
Jack Hill
And what, pray tell, do you think "demosaicing" is if not the interpolating process I just explained?
(In b4 it magically creates extra information out of thin air.....)
Angel Campbell
The only time it's worth buying a 4k TV is if your going to use it as a monitor.
Until there's 4k TV's with ATSC 3.0 tv tuners built it, and there's OTA channels with 4k content, then there's no point in buying a 4k tv.
And 4k OTA tv won't happen for at least another 3 years or so.
Blake Baker
And how are you gonna input a 4K signal into a 1080p screen smartass?
Christian Rivera
But what about UHD Blu-rays?
Samuel Turner
Sure, once 8K movies are common you will benefit from a 4K screen over 1080p.
But if you pay 4 times more for 4K today.
And by the time 8K is common you can buy a 4K screen for the same price.
Then it's still 50% cheaper to buy a 1080p today and upgrade to 4K in the future.
Colton Moore
>itt
>throwing money at stupid shit you won't notice the difference of
Wyatt Perry
t. poorfag that doesn't understand how video works
Ayden Davis
Are you trolling or actually a tech retard?
In case not trolling: your video player converts the compressed movie (with chroma subsampling) into an uncompressed RGB signal (without chroma subsampling).
Jose Brown
>If you watch a 1080p movie on a 4k screen, it's 4 times worse than on the 1080p screen
Julian Edwards
>t. pleb who wastes his life watching other people's life
Jacob Garcia
Funny how stupid cunts who can't even form an argument always call others "retarded".
Go kill yourself and rid us from your ignorance.
Charles Watson
>I'm a dumb dumb lol look at me!
Juan James
>our eyes only see in 480p
The human visual system is not analogous in any way to video.
Jonathan Cook
Good luck watching a 4K bluray on a 1080 screen dumbass
Not an argument
Ryan Brooks
As 4k gets more popular 1080p gets cheaper. At the same time most movies are still released in 1080p, streaming usually maxes at 1080p, and most videos on the internet are
Brandon Perez
Nope, every pixel has rgb subpixels (sometimes with yellow or white as well)
Hudson Wright
The UHD Bluray spec can use 444 tho.
Cameron Richardson
>not being part of the quattron master race
Lincoln Price
>Being this retarded.
See pic related,4k bluray downscaled to 1080p
Hunter Harris
>RGBY
it's a meme
Brayden Myers
Arri cams (most popular for movies) can shoot up to 6K 12-bit 4:4:4 which is then downsampled 10-bit 4:4:4 on 4K blurays. RED cams do similar. RED also has cams that can shoot 6K/8K. This isn't even an argument.
Looks like shit dude
Colton Mitchell
They have been shouting for more than 10 years now that 4k is the new big thing yet 4k is still overpriced and has worse quality than 1080p. Literal garbage
Henry Gutierrez
Current 4K blurays are 4:2:0 retard.
The 4K blurays support 4:4:4 but no movie has use it.
Robert Ramirez
no. you cant tell 4k from 1080 at normal view distance. its great because you can get a cheap pc monitor tho.
Gavin Edwards
Feels confy to be colorblind
I am don't need a meme 4k to watch cable TV broadcast as hd
Jace Miller
they dont. cameras record compressed.
Eli Kelly
btw my tv, 40 inch 3m sitting distance impossible to distinguish 720 from 1080
Sebastian Foster
1. how much 4k content do you want to consume?
2. do you have the internet speeds required to stream 4k content?
3. do you have a data cap?
If
1. a lot
2. yes
3. no
then yeah, buy one.
Nathan Ramirez
Every SCREEN pixel has 3 subpixels.
Every BAYER SENSOR pixel has just 1 color.
All I'm saying is you need a SENSOR that has at least as many subpixels as your SCREEN.
A "4K" camera has only 1/3rd the pixels of a 4K screen.
Dylan Sanchez
Cinema cams shoot 12-bit RAW
Ian Sullivan
Neck yourself
Gavin Lopez
Good argument
Zachary Butler
Don't buy a 4K tv just to have a new TV.
If you have a 1080p TV that works then keep it.
If your TV broke, then buy a 4K one.
If you want a 4K tv then wait until there is more content (or content you want in 4K) before you buy
Logan Nelson
Because no standard supports it? Dolby Vision is 12-bit 4:2:2. HDR10 is 10-bit 4:2:0.
Lucas Wood
Nobody's impressed by a puny 60" screen
Jaxon Ross
But it doesn't senpai. And like user said above 4K camera = 1080p real resolution.
Nathaniel Moore
>cameras record compressed.
Serious productions record lossless compressed.
Charles King
So what you're saying is 4K 12-bit 4:4:4 RAW from the camera is just 1080p? Wow I never knew that.
Jack King
>4:4:4
>raw
That does not exist.
Raw would be just one 12 bit value per pixel, either red, green or blue.
4:4:4 is what you get after demosaicing.
Aaron Anderson
No because 4K TVs are telescreens.
Evan Ward
There's no such thing as a good 1080p TV. Maybe a 10 year old plasma.
Dylan Reed
>spending exorbitant amounts of money on an unnecessary luxury tech item that will be reasonably priced within a few years
>"is this a good idea guys??"
Liam Nguyen
Not at the moment because there is hardly any 4K content and the prices are crazy. Unless you want it for gaming or for future proofing then sure get one, but I would give it a year for when the prices start to hopefully drop
Bentley Roberts
prices are coming down rather quick.
But I agree content is lagging.
Luke Perry
are there any 4k movies or tv shows? if yes are there more than 10 that are worthy? do you plan on watching the same stuff on repeat just cause its 4k?
Joseph Long
The only reason to buy a 1080p in the current year would be used or if you didn't want to be apart of the botnet and needed a dumb TV. Honestly 4k TV's are pretty cheap at this point so there's no reason not to get one.
Adam Harris
dude nobody was talking about 4k that heavily 10 years ago. 2013 was when 4k really started to be sold. Sort of like how 1977 was when the PC really started even though other products existed years before.
Jordan Brown
Glad I still have 1080p TV here. Internet fucking sucks for a ridiculous price. There's no way I could stream/download 4K content that could keep up with the speed. 1080p is fine.
Jackson Garcia
its makes sense to buy 4k now if you need a new tv for a couple of reasons
1) most people who buy a tv, buy one to last at least 5+ years, so long term the 4k content landscape is only getting larger
2)everyday more and more companies push towards 4k from game consoles to cameras to 4k blu rays, more and more companies sign on to expand every day
3) when looking for a good quality T.V. in the current landscape, the only ones that offer good specs such as high refresh rates, HDR, Dolby vision, and other color and contrast enhancements are going to be found only in 4k tvs.
4) the prices are very solid. I dont know why people are still pushing the "4k is expensive" you can get good quality vizios or TCL's for under 500 in the 50 inch size range. However i would recommend a good Sony above that
Heres what i would recommend
Money is no object tier
Option 1
Jose Edwards
Where are you supposed to get the legal 4k media from? Physical media is dying, streaming doesn't have the bandwith to deliver full scale in most clapistan, downloading isn't going to fast even with compression.
Wyatt Ward
>Physical media is dying
Nice meme. Get an XBOX ONE S and enjoy UHD Blu-ray. Physical is still the best way.
>streaming doesn't have the bandwith to deliver full scale in most clapistan
Only in rural shitholes. You can stream with 25Mbps.
>downloading isn't going to fast even with compression.
wat
John Carter
What options are there for TVs without any (Or easily disabled/bypassed) 'smart' tv applications? I've had to interact with several smart tvs and they always blow ass.
James Reed
from my experience about every 4k tv i have seen is smart. I would say roku TV's, Samsung, and Sony have decent smart TV's. The vizio kinda of sucks for that so i might steer clear of that model. In terms of disabling i haven't had too much experience. Only thing i can tell you is i have a sony mart 4k tv and feel the smart TV is relatively advance and not too cumbersome. Though i do feel that the TV can be slow at changing inputs and turning on.
Asher Powell
Damnit. Whenever I've had to use one, they're always so finnicky and annoyingly slow to do anything. There's got to be someplace to buy a display panel without shitty annoying firmware. Probably way expensive though.
Tyler Lopez
Not fundamentally, no, but you will most likely be getting an older TV or a shitty panel since all the manufacturers have been pushing 4K for several years. Even the budget stuff from good companies is 4K these days and if it isn't, there's a good chance it's scrap heap shit.
rtings.com is a fantastic resource when looking at TV stuff by the way.
Ryan Brown
>UHD Blu-ray
The problem with UHD is some of the source material was never in 4K to begin with.
Some mad max scenes were shot in 1080 for example
arrival's source is 2.8K
but not every movie fakes it, rogue one is real 4K
Dominic Rogers
>4K video is actually 1080p video because of chroma subsampling.
1080p also has subsampling, which would "make it 720p" in your parlance.
Zachary Thomas
Still higher quality, still an advantage with HDR.
Kevin Taylor
>Xbox One S.
Can you schill any harder?
Connor Peterson
I don't live in cucked clapistan, I have 1gbps internet.
Jack Sanders
>schill
can you spell any dumber?
Josiah Green
...
Luis Wright
anime is only in 720p so what's the point of 4k tv?
maybe 4k monitor for games is good with gsync but tv is sily
Jason Powell
You're not gonna get a 1080p HDR OLED.
Why do you want HDR OLED for a cupboard tv?
Landon Cooper
Pretty much, ye. Unless you can find raw RGB uncompressed 1080p video.
Bentley Taylor
i'd take a 1080p OLED over a 4K "LED" LCD tv anyday
there's much more to quality than just the number of pixels
Luke Wilson
basically all consumer video 4:2:0, it's meaningless to say 1080p isn't 1080p because of subsampling, because all the ones below it are also subsampled
Carson Kelly
for now i wouldnt buy one. Im still happy with my 1080p tv and i dont see why i need a better one. maybe in a couple years its something 2 consider but until it gets really mainstream 1080p is fine.
John Morgan
am I right in thinking this is why full IMAX is still shot on film; because there's no recording medium that can write data fast enough to keep up?
Nathaniel Cook
if you're making a 1080p video it's a good idea to record in 4K and then downsample for this reason. Looks noticeably better.
Jordan Wood
shooting on film is already allowing for lossy images, so there's no additional harm in instead using high quality lossy digital encoding
even lossless video compression can trim a lot off
digital theatre (DCI standard) for example, uses (lossy) jpeg2000-encoded frames
Aaron Rivera
Nah, modern imax is shot digitally in 2K res. The reason it looks so crisp and clear is because they show a 4:4:4 video file on the projector else it would look like ass.
Adrian Howard
But that's not easy to find, user...
Hunter Price
Everyone would, but you act like you can just buy a 1080p OLED. 1080p OLEDs are often within a hundred or so dollars of 4K OLEDs and are hundreds more than it takes to get a decent 4K LCD.
You really aren't paying that much of a premium for resolution anymore. There's no 4K content, but it's still become the standard manufacturers are looking to put out with even their mid-tier TVs.