4K source still not availible to public

[phaZed]

Youtube has some 4k content:

 

[brandonkick]

Youtube's 4K content is pretty crappy.

I know that I have an online friend who has the newest Go Pro 4
and he claims that when he uploads his 4K content from his
camera to youtube, the picture quality takes a serious hit.

I don't know if everyone's 4K uploads get the same treatment, but
his got degraded badly.

I'm also not surprised really that 4K isn't bigger. I'd like to think that
the market share for 1080P televisions is just recently getting to pretty
respectable levels. Blu-Ray players are now pretty affordable and the
price of Blu-Ray movies is coming down a bit.

I think it was back around the PS3 launch era that the Blu-ray technology
finally started spreading out of the "early adopter" circles. At that time even
small HDTV's were still pretty expensive. I paid nearly $500 for a 32" off brand
720p demo unit. Fast forward to today and for $300-$400 you can get a 42" 1080p
smart TV (and bigger/cheaper sets on sale or black friday).

I don't think you'll see 4K anything really take hold for a few years yet.

 

[Galdorf]

Finally we get to buy 4k movies release date is March 1 2016 too bad there is only like 26 movies you can buy in 4k uhd bluray lol.
But guess what 4k uhd bluray players will not be out till March 11 2016 at $600 can lol.

 

[brandonkick]

Nice to see the availability, but as I said last time it's still too early.

I wonder how discernable it even really is, when you have a quality 1080p source and compare against
a quality 4K source using displays of equal quality. I bet at around 8-10 ft, the picture quality would be hard
to tell apart.

 

[Galdorf]

Nice to see the availability, but as I said last time it's still too early.

I wonder how discernable it even really is, when you have a quality 1080p source and compare against
a quality 4K source using displays of equal quality. I bet at around 8-10 ft, the picture quality would be hard
to tell apart.

Don't need to be far away the diff between 1080p and true 4k is VERY noticeable like comparing vhs vs bluray.

 

[NerdyBuddy]

I don't think 4K will fall by the wayside like 3-D did, but the market sure is taking a long time to catch up. There's probably just too small a gap in difference for consumers to hop on the need-to-upgrade bandwagon. VHS to DVD - big difference, DVD to Blu-ray - big difference, Blu-ray to 4K - noticeable difference.

I could be wrong. I don't watch enough television to know.

 

[brandonkick]

I don't want to get into the argument realm, but from what I could tell each
jump made less and less of a "difference". The only outlier, as far as I can remember,
was VHS - DVD.

I think the jump from DVD - Blu-Ray was bigger then VHS - DVD. But it's been SO long since I've
seen a VHS maybe I forget just how crappy they are and VHS - DVD is a bigger jump then DVD - Blu-Ray.

720p - 1080p didn't seem to make that big of a difference to me. Granted the jump in resolution is quite bigger
when jumping from 1080p to 4K, I think now we get into a realm of when do our eyes start to become a bottleneck?

IMO it will take 4K a long long time to catch on. Cable / Satellite providers will be way on down the road as this hike in
resolution will really eat up tons of bandwidth. As stated, most still aren't even doing 1080p yet.