Question 4K TVs & DVDs / BLU RAY DISCS

[Reno]

I am currently undertaking researches to implement a long outstanding upgrade of my broadband/tv services and the related hardware. I'm finding it a bit of a mine field! Questions keep arising and as I tackle them another arises. That said overall I am certain that whatever I decide will provide an improvement on picture quality and quality of access to streaming services.

My latest query. I have a heap of hard disc material in both DVDs and Blu Ray Discs. Largely films and TV series box sets. My question is simply to ask how these are likely to appear on a 4K TV screen on the budget level Blu-Ray player I currently own.

I am coming to the view that I am eventually just going to have to take a dive and see what gives but on this issue what is the likely outcome? Will my hard discs become more or less useless to me because the picture quality is so poor on a 4K TV? The opposite? Or do I need to just take the chance and wait and see? I "think" I am reading that a lot of TVs out there do a pretty good job of upgrading and that another option is to buy a player capable of a decent upgrade.

The TV I am currently steering towards is a 55" or 43" LG OLED eve AI C4 4K but as yet no final decision reached.

Any thoughts gratefully received.

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[bigboss]

The 4K TVs do an excellent job of upscaling pictures. Not sure about DVDs, but your blu rays should still give excellent pictures. As it's all digital, the price of your blu ray player doesn't matter. You can always upgrade the peripherals later if you feel the need.

 

[michael hoy]

The 4K TVs do an excellent job of upscaling pictures. Not sure about DVDs, but your blu rays should still give excellent pictures. As it's all digital, the price of your blu ray player doesn't matter. You can always upgrade the peripherals later if you feel the need.

Some DVD's i have pulled out of the cupboard recently are actually quite good on my 55" LG OLED, mainly the ones not in 4:3 format. Blu Ray is very good and compares with so called upscaled to 4K discs.

 

[Messiah]

I can only reiterate what the others have said. On a decent TV DVD still looks good and Blu-ray is excellent.

I'm still so impressed with Blu-ray (and it's far cheaper price compared to 4K discs) that even though I have a 4K TV is still primarily buy Blu-ray.

 

[Jasonovich]

Your choice of TV is fab. I gave all my DVDs to an old people's care home, so I can't comment on the upscaling.
Standard 1080p Blu-rays look Ok, the LG C4 does a fine job even at 65".
The 4k Blu-rays are absolutely magnificent.
I would suggest upgrading your Blu-ray player to 4k UHD one, like the Panasonic BP-UB820 and won't costs you an arm and a leg.
Also small things, like good quality inexpensive HDMI cabling.
If you're streaming, or have a Netflix subscription, there's a lot of 4k content.
The merits of cables are pretty much polarised here. I mentioned this in view of a little experiment I did with ethernet cables.
I swapped my generic ethernet cable with Supra Cat 8 (you don't need Cat 8 for 4k Cat 5e will do but Supra didn't come with cheaper options)

I won't comment on the sound because the improvement was slight or the same but eyes don't lie, the picture quality from Netflix was noticeably sharper than the generic one and all for a small outlay.
Though it's quite possible the biggest improvement came from the ASUS 2.5gb ethernet adapter (compatible with LG).
I was getting only 79 mps using LGs C4 Lan but using the ASUS more than trebled the bandwidth and thus less 4k compression from Netflix.
Tweaking doesn't have to come at a cost 🙂

 

[RoA]

Your choice of TV is fab. I gave all my DVDs to an old people's care home, so I can't comment on the upscaling.
Standard 1080p Blu-rays look Ok, the LG C4 does a fine job even at 65".
The 4k Blu-rays are absolutely magnificent.
I would suggest upgrading your Blu-ray player to 4k UHD one, like the Panasonic BP-UB820 and won't costs you an arm and a leg.
Also small things, like good quality inexpensive HDMI cabling.
If you're streaming, or have a Netflix subscription, there's a lot of 4k content.
The merits of cables are pretty much polarised here. I mentioned this in view of a little experiment I did with ethernet cables.
I swapped my generic ethernet cable with Supra Cat 8 (you don't need Cat 8 for 4k Cat 5e will do but Supra didn't come with cheaper options)

I won't comment on the sound because the improvement was slight or the same but eyes don't lie, the picture quality from Netflix was noticeably sharper than the generic one and all for a small outlay.
Though it's quite possible the biggest improvement came from the ASUS 2.5gb ethernet adapter (compatible with LG).
I was getting only 79 mps using LGs C4 Lan but using the ASUS more than trebled the bandwidth and thus less 4k compression from Netflix.
Tweaking doesn't have to come at a cost 🙂View attachment 8590

We have a SKY 65mb/s internet 🙂, It's ok but hardly the speed we had in Spain. Gotta love the UK.

 

[Jasonovich]

We have a SKY 65mb/s internet 🙂, It's ok but hardly the speed we had in Spain. Gotta love the UK.

We should all be on full fibre 1gb broadband, we're so behind on the rest of Europe. I guess they want to keep it exclusive so internet providers can milk us for the privilege! 🙂

The thing I don't understand, I have 1.2GB broadband from Virgin Media but I'm getting only 230mps (attached to the ASUS ethernet adapter via LG C4 USB socket) from Netflix?

I'm wondering if Netflix has a cap on it's bandwidth? About 30mps is sufficient for 4K but the more you have the less compression and it is noticeable.
It's also a shame LG's build in Lan is limited to 10/100 mps, I was expecting 1 GB as it's a premium brand.