I have known for a few months 4k TVs exist, but come on. In March they are starting to release a ton of 4K UHD movies for the TVs and 4k UHD players. Are you kidding me?

I have been updating my BluRay collection and now I am gonna eventually have to buy 4k to keep up with the times as they will slowly faze out DVDs then BluRays and by then have 6K or 8K like they do in Japan. UGH. This is getting too expensive lol

You don't have to do anything. A lot of people still use DVD's and never transitioned to blue-ray.

You're an idiot and a sheep. 4ks are a scam. My old Samsung Galaxy S6 had a 4k screen so I can watch idiot millennial sheep on YouTube reacting to other YouTube clips on a 5 inch display.

I watched The Empire Strikes Back on a 4K tv a friend got for Christmas. It made the actors movement too fast and the special effects look like low-grade cgi's. It reminded me of the live action scenes from the old Command & Conquer PC games.

That's not because of the 4k resolution, it's because he had that motionflow crap turned on, it's been around for years on a 1080p set. I hate it too and turned it off my friends TV, then he goes and turns it back on. Best part is he complained why the models in the original Terminator looked so cheap seeing the movie for the first time, had he not turned that junk on the illusion of the special effects would be preserved.

Exactly! Auto-motion Plus is a joke. Gives films a soap-opera effect. It is great for sports and news, etc., but is horrible for movies.

I saw the Hobbit in 48fps in the theater and it was god awful, it looked like a broadway play and the effects look so much more amateurish, you could even see the paint lines and seams in the costumes and masks.

Did you catch Lynda Carter at the Third Rail Yet?

It's pretty cool.

No. I just looked it up. I completely missed her as my only companion was Piper during my first run. I have to go to goodneighbor and check her out

Think of it in terms of fixing the biggest weakness.

What are the movies you are watching falling down on, as you experience them? Picture clarity? Sound? Content / plot etc.?

Fixing the weak point is often cheap.

If you already have good picture clarity but sound is letting you down, better headphones or a bigger set of speakers might change your movie-watching experience radically.

If you're already seeing the movies and hearing them well enough, but what's driving you crazy is the plots, you have no real incentive to upgrade.

You should emigrate. Those guys are getting a new 4k in their welcome packages.

I've read some articles about how some people can't even tell the difference between a 1080p Blu Ray and the 4k picture.

They said that it only really improves the image if you have a huge TV (or if you're sitting really close to a smaller TV.)

You can't, I think the threshold is 60 or 75 inches and at that point you're not sitting a few feet away anyway. I mean I'm not an anti new technology guy by any means, but some of this stuff you have to take with a grain of salt.

Yes the technology in terms of picture clarity is surpassing the human eye's ability to even see it and appreciate it.

And there's already 8K TVs in the works.

8K TV's are already on sale (at $133,000):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34267265

The 4K bit stream rate is an important factor too.

It's not that high on Netflix (and other streaming services) because the higher it is the less people will have a broadband internet connection fast enough to handle it.

Maybe when 4K discs come out people will be able to see a more marked difference in picture quality.

Yeah I waited years for Bluray and I am glad I did since the movies are so cheap now. I am replacing my favorite DVD movies that I watch all the time with Bluray and leaving the rest DVD.

As I have. I just picked up my first Bluray player, and I won't replace DVDs that I still possess, but there are a few that I lent out (to never return) that I guess I will upgrade.

Haha I said the same thing. Then I bought a bluray movie just for the hell of it and man its WAY better than DVD. The thing I notice the most with Bluray is that you can see high detail on things far in the background that is not even in focus. Like someone could be in a NY crowd and you can see people sitting in a cab crystal clear 100 yards away.

I already have a few multi-platforms, so I see what you mean, and agree. I am pleasantly surprised in the difference, but can't justify doubling up on what I already have.

Incredible sound & picture though.

Welcome to capitalism.

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If you hate capitalism so much, then stop supporting it. Only buy goods from worker collectives, or make your stuff. Or, continue being the lazy hypocrite that you are.

I don't hate it. Why do you assume I do? Planned obsolescence is, in part, what drives a capitalist or a consumer society. Consider that once everyone goes out and purchases a 1040p TV that will generally last ten to twelve years, then before long there's a slow down in the market and TV manufacturers, retailers, etc start to lay off employees. But with a more advanced model like 4K coming out long before the 1080p's life ends, then the economy stays healthier.

Now, a few above are complaining about something that is very good for our consumer economy, why are you not calling them names.

I agree, who needs more than 240i resolution and a 5" screen, right?

Capitalism is also refuting this technology like we did with 3D TVs

I have a 55" 4K and I can confirm that there is a huge difference between 1080p and 4K. It has the capability of displaying over twice as many pixels as 1080p. Most of the content on Youtube and Netflix is still in native 1080p but there are a few 4K videos and they look considerably more hi-def...a world of difference. In 2016, there will be a lot of 4K content being released. If you can afford the upgrade, it's worth it.

" It has the capability of displaying over twice as many pixels as 1080p"

4 times as many.

I was looking at tvs and ended up with a 55' Samsung smart tv....but I realoly considered spending the 2-3 grand for the 4K.

Personally if I had the choice between a 4k LCD or 1080p OLED though I'd go with the OLED, I think the color and contrast ratio far surpasses shoving more pixels in an inferior display, plus frankly alot of the first 4k titles coming down the pipeline are crap, Exodus, Amazing Spiderman 2, the Smurfs....until I see classics like Star Wars, Alien or Lawrence of Arabia in 4k I can wait a few years.

How are you going to ever see those in 4k if they weren't shot in 4k? It's like those SD movies that get "upgraded" to HD. Phoney baloney garbage that steeple the eat up

Because they were shot on film which has way more detail than digital RED cameras that can be scanned in at even over 8k resolution. 35mm is king.

70mm is even better but few movies were shot in that historically.

Seriously why do you think old movies look great on blu-ray? Because analog film has a seemingly endless amount of detail to scan in, especially when you factor in the grain detail of the film.

Do they look great?

The new Star Wars was shot in 35mm film, so was the Nolan Batman movies, do you think they look great?

Not on a 4k TV I hear.

My friend bought one and said Star Wars looked like a cheap video game on it. Wishes he got a 1080p OLED

mine is 3d.

Not one person I know has a 3d TV

i'm cool like that.

4K, that is so 2003, 8K broadcast services started last year.

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16K broadcast news by BBC and HNK started 10 years ago in Japan.