Perfect answer. For most people, no. I actually did make the jump to a 4k TV and sit close enough to it that I can visibly see the difference. About 8 feet from a 65" TV, still barely in the “Ultra HD Worth It” category.
It truly is ridiculously large for the space, everyone who visits us comments on it. My wife likes to joke when we watch Make Some Noise that the people are “life size”. If you don’t have a small living room and aren’t planning at least a 65" or larger TV, than it’s almost certainly not worthwhile.
Crazy to me that most AAA console games push 4k as the standard at the expense of 60FPS, given these realities.
Who the hell has a 100 inch tv less than the height of an average Scandinavian man away??
You probably wouldn’t even be able to see the edge of the picture in your peripheral vision, let alone have enough of it in focus to be able to have a solitary clue what’s going on in any movie scene or video game action sequence or whatever 😄
It is on work PC due to app scaling. On TV it greatly depends on it’s quality, the quality of a source video and so on. Since I lucked into have an okay display, and mostly watch old 720-1080p shows and movies I never cared to update my TV, but since enormous 4k torrents are popular I guess people do seek and enjoy them. See if you have some friends with it and try watching a movie with them to know if you care about the difference.
For me, it does, granted what other people said OLED you’ll notice more than 4k. But ultimately it depends on what you like. If fidelity is your thing then go for it. If you don’t care and are happy, then no need to rush
do you have any source that would provide 4k content? I feel like even 720p is good enough at a decent bitrate. But it also depends on the size of the screen and the distance to it.
I just upgraded because we got a new condo and I’ve never had an awesome TV, and I’d say it’s totally worth it if you can put it to use, but with a decent 4K TV it’s a lot more than just the resolution. You’ll probably get HDR and 120Hz and Dolby Atmos and anti-jitter settings and upscaling and all sorts of crap and that really does seem to do a lot, compared to a midrange 1080p TV from >10 years ago, even if the source is 1080p. I even noticed a huge difference playing Baldur’s Gate 1 on Switch. For reference I went from some midrange thing to an LG C4 65" (seems to be the best ‘balling on a budget’ TV out there based on reviews, I mean there are better TVs out there but this thing delivers 95% of it for half the price)
I just got a new LG 4K and I love it but (1) it’s not connected to the internet (NVIDIA Shield Pro handles everything) and (2) I have a ton of 4K/TrueHD media.
FWIW I’ve also got 1080p and some old school TV rips and they look fine.
Made a huge difference when I replaced my 12 year old 1080p with a new 4K that wasn’t even expensive. Media these days is made with 4K in mind with the tiny texts and stuff, it was barely readable anymore on my old TV. But I also bought a PS5 at that time so I wanted to enjoy that as much as possible.
I gave the old one to a friend who’s not as privileged and always tight on money. Win Win.
For real though, I’m rocking 1080. Is an upgrade to 4k worth it?
Depends on screen size and distance. Here’s a nice graph:
I do recommend an OLED or QLED, though.
Perfect answer. For most people, no. I actually did make the jump to a 4k TV and sit close enough to it that I can visibly see the difference. About 8 feet from a 65" TV, still barely in the “Ultra HD Worth It” category.
It truly is ridiculously large for the space, everyone who visits us comments on it. My wife likes to joke when we watch Make Some Noise that the people are “life size”. If you don’t have a small living room and aren’t planning at least a 65" or larger TV, than it’s almost certainly not worthwhile.
Crazy to me that most AAA console games push 4k as the standard at the expense of 60FPS, given these realities.
Who the hell has a 100 inch tv less than the height of an average Scandinavian man away??
You probably wouldn’t even be able to see the edge of the picture in your peripheral vision, let alone have enough of it in focus to be able to have a solitary clue what’s going on in any movie scene or video game action sequence or whatever 😄
Doesn’t really look like it then, though all the OLED and QLED were 4k.
It did make me wonder what quantum led means though.
It is on work PC due to app scaling. On TV it greatly depends on it’s quality, the quality of a source video and so on. Since I lucked into have an okay display, and mostly watch old 720-1080p shows and movies I never cared to update my TV, but since enormous 4k torrents are popular I guess people do seek and enjoy them. See if you have some friends with it and try watching a movie with them to know if you care about the difference.
For me, it does, granted what other people said OLED you’ll notice more than 4k. But ultimately it depends on what you like. If fidelity is your thing then go for it. If you don’t care and are happy, then no need to rush
do you have any source that would provide 4k content? I feel like even 720p is good enough at a decent bitrate. But it also depends on the size of the screen and the distance to it.
I just upgraded because we got a new condo and I’ve never had an awesome TV, and I’d say it’s totally worth it if you can put it to use, but with a decent 4K TV it’s a lot more than just the resolution. You’ll probably get HDR and 120Hz and Dolby Atmos and anti-jitter settings and upscaling and all sorts of crap and that really does seem to do a lot, compared to a midrange 1080p TV from >10 years ago, even if the source is 1080p. I even noticed a huge difference playing Baldur’s Gate 1 on Switch. For reference I went from some midrange thing to an LG C4 65" (seems to be the best ‘balling on a budget’ TV out there based on reviews, I mean there are better TVs out there but this thing delivers 95% of it for half the price)
We still have a fair bit of 360p content, it looks awful on the 4K tv in our lounge room.
On our old 32” 1080p screen in our back room it looks just fine. So we’ve been watching different content in different rooms 🙄
I just got a new LG 4K and I love it but (1) it’s not connected to the internet (NVIDIA Shield Pro handles everything) and (2) I have a ton of 4K/TrueHD media.
FWIW I’ve also got 1080p and some old school TV rips and they look fine.
Made a huge difference when I replaced my 12 year old 1080p with a new 4K that wasn’t even expensive. Media these days is made with 4K in mind with the tiny texts and stuff, it was barely readable anymore on my old TV. But I also bought a PS5 at that time so I wanted to enjoy that as much as possible.
I gave the old one to a friend who’s not as privileged and always tight on money. Win Win.