8k xuhd tv

[anticpated]

Ok I've seen these things pop up in adverts recently. I was wondering how far companies like samsung will go.

Will the advent of 80"+ displays eventually become a more financially friendly alternative to going to the cinema. And will eastenders will have a higher extremity of misery when shown.

There is very few examples of 4k use other than a handful of sport channels, bluray, video games on Xbox one and ps4.

Whilst native 4k display is good I just don't see the advantage from a real-world point of view.

[Glory1]

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@Poppysmum wrote:

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@Anonymous wrote:

Like all these promotional numbers on packs.. never heard of anyone winning the big prizes, until now. Good stuff PM!

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Ignore bowl Poppy was supposed to be having her tea lol 

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I see you watch Pointless too @Poppysmum 

[Poppysmum]

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@Glory1 wrote:

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@Poppysmum wrote:

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@Anonymous wrote:

Like all these promotional numbers on packs.. never heard of anyone winning the big prizes, until now. Good stuff PM!

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Ignore bowl Poppy was supposed to be having her tea lol 

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I see you watch Pointless too @Poppysmum 

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Yes love Pointless missed it when they had the summer break  

[sheepdog]

The problem with these big TV's is that the average UK home is really too small to take advantage of it. Then you start to notice all the details you really don't want to see. The 55" in our house just about works but then again we knocked a wall out (it wasn't for the TV before you say it. That came later). Anything bigger and it just dominates.

The other problem is that there's going to be a need to have (for producers) a rather large hard drive array to process these amounts of footage which leads onto the perennial issue of what do you do with the lack of money to pay for storing long term. I can see a lot of programming being deleted forever intentionally or un-intentionally.

Good for quality to record at high resolution as it can be downgraded but SD is good enough now so it will be around 30 years before we see the benefits of recording at 4K/8K. Then again, the quality of content isn't going to help longevity for viewing public to bother with. 

[anticpated]

I have an LG 43" uhd tv. Recently virgin launched a 4k channel and whilst the detail is good I'm not really sure my shoddy eyesight can deal with it.

Secondly all HD content is upscaled by the tv so you never see the original scaling.

Not that I would go back to SD now in the long term. Modern tv and films do have a cleaner look about them.

[Poppysmum]

Think 49" is just right for my living room i have freeview and my son got a Netflix account which he's set up on my tv but i rarely watch anything on it lol.

My recording box and catchup tv along with freeview channels do me fine