I really do want to buy a new HDTV, and 4K is the way the new TVs are going. I bought my last HDTV about 2 and a half years ago, no problems with it at all, however it only has 3 hdmi ports. Which is a pain because I have the surround sound, cable box, PS4, and Blu-Ray player that I use. So not enough slots, and those spliters do not work on my TV.

I figure I can sell my current TV for 200 or 300 dollars. I've seen reasonable 4K TVs sell for about $800, with the more advanced ones at $1,000. I have no intention of going out out tomorrow and buying a 4K TV, but if those 800 dollar TVs drop a hundred or so, should I take the plunge at that price?

I know a few users on here known a great deal about this technology, and would love to hear your thoughts.

I heard theybhave the soap opera effect and I hate that. You can see the camera angle smoothly hovering around as if watching a movie through someone with a camera phone.

Anything with a motion rate over 60 will cause that soap opera effect. My current TV does this, but I turn it off for everything but sports, it's best for sporting events. Doesn't look fake.

Yes I know. I heard that 4k TVs are 60 to 120 fps but I could be wrong. I do know that blu rays are at 24 fps and some movies look choppy.

Soap Opera effect is superior
motion interpolation like real life.

Oh yeah, on Amazon get an hdmi splitter. Its only $15 and works perfectly doesn't degrade the quality or anything.

They don't work on my TV, unless I connect it to the hmdi arc slot, and I need that for my surround sound.

I don't like the way movies look on them. They look so fake.

Watch a movie like the Hobbit and you can see the threads on the costumes etc. No good.

The Hobbit was filmed with a higher motion rate so it will look fake especially if you have your 120 or 240 motion rate turned on. This is only good for sports, otherwise, like you and the other user said, it makes it look fake.

Well wtf man you ask us for advice and you know everything about it.

I know about motion rate because I asked about it before I bought my current TV. Hardly knowing everything.

I got one 2 months ago.

Takes a while to get used to the crispness of the picture (Star Trek Original Series from the 60s has so much detail that I never saw before!) but overall I would say 'yes'.

Movies look very different. No more fuzziness during camera pan. Watch Mad Max Fury Road - utterly, utterly brilliant in Ultra HD.

"Watch Mad Max Fury Road - utterly, utterly brilliant in Ultra HD. "

But you're not watching it in Ultra HD, not if you're watching a TV broadcast of it or a blu-ray. Don't think you can download a genuine 4k copy either.

Google Play told me it was UHD.

Meh, whatever, it looked AMAZING.

You're probably right then. Sorry, I didn't realise they offered UHD streaming - or did you download it all first and then watch it?

There's a hundred or so titles being streamed. And there's up-conversion for everything else. 1080P up-converts infinitely better than 480i or any other interlaced standard did (Temporal interpolation can now get scaled appropriately instead of trying to manage the lag of synchronizing to a foreign clock cycle.)...so it doesn't deserve as bad a reputation as it had in the past. Of course, not all up-conversion chips are designed and created equal.

I work in photoshop all day and can confirm it is definitely easier to upscale a 1080p picture to 4k than a 480 one to 1080p. It's all just brain tricks in the end but I think having more pixels to work with helps the illusion pull off better.

I'm still not sold on 4k though, if the next TV I get has it that's fine, but I'd rather have a 1080p OLED vs a 4k LCD for instance, resolution isn't everything.

I was thinking about it, researched it and decided I could wait.

That's the one big advantage digital has (some may argue the only): scalability. It's really computationally hard to calculate 29.93 interlaced fields per second into 30 progressive frames per second. This generation of technology finally leaves the AC frequency dependency nest.

Personally I miss crt technology, you could send any resolution signal through those things and they still looked good, was great when you wanted to get some extra frames doing PC gaming at lower resolutions. Don't miss the weight though.