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HDR on my 55-inch OLED seems to make little difference, all it does it make the begining credits brighter and that's about it. The picture doesnt benefit from it, at least on 4k Blu-ray. I am not going to be wasting any more money on it.bigboss said:Depends on the screen size and viewing distance. As I said before, it's HDR more than 4K resolution that will make the biggest impact.
gel said:I am not going to be wasting any more money on it.
bigboss said:gel said:I am not going to be wasting any more money on it.
And I'm not going to make a case for you to spend more money.
Agreed. Not impressed with people pushing and praising it.simonlewis said:I think it is a big con they have dicked about with the brightness and darkness but not with the sharpness (resolution) which is what i was expecting a pin sharp picture but what you get is a load of rubbish and something no better than 1080p.
*good*ellisdj said:Should be seeing HDR and 4K on a big screen this weekend in ideal conditions - I will let you know what I think.
I will say I watched the Martian at the weekend upscaled 4K and it looked good enough to me not to worry about it in HDR 10 but etc
However opinions could well be changed this weekend.
theflyingwasp said:I think you have a pretty good point there .HD is more than adequate for the masses.its only film buffs pushing 4K.
You need glasses mate.Edbo2 said:I believe HD is adequate as it does improve quality. 4K artificially enhances the image to unreal sharpness. Test this by using your eyes and look around you. Your eyes will relay to your brain of your surroundings in standard definition quality. My family do not even choose HD channels. If that is good enough for them then it is good enough for me. Shame 3D has been discontinued in favour of 4K. When I worked in the TV industry widescreen was the new boy on the block with the 4:3 format stretched to fit 16:9.
4K Blu-Ray is crap! The best demo I have seen is just 4K by itself via YouTube actually taken with a 4K video camera and then it looks quite decent. 4K movies via YouTube are crap too.MajorFubar said:Load of valid points here, especially concerning the fact most people don't properly understand what it is they're buying into, and more to the point we don't have any proper 4k TV channels. I haven't seen Netflix 4k and I don't know what codecs they use, but I suspect there's quite a bit of data compression to reduce the impact of storing and streaming films of such huge dimensions; they won't be as good as 4k BD because the infrastructure isn't in place to deliver such quality reliably over the internet, and by 'deliver' think of everything in the chain, not just that you have a 70mbit bb connection; that's almost the least of their worries.
It Edited by mods was that bad!theflyingwasp said:I would like to have seen your Panasonic OLED calibrated with the Panasonic 4K Blu Ray player playing mad max - it can't have been that bad.
my concern at the moment is that the current 4K blu Ray movies aren't really 4k the majority of the film is 2k with the special effects in 4K.the tech has to start somewhere.anyone buying a 4K tv to watch anything except 4K Blu Ray is kidding themselves.its the only media that's going to give you actual proper 4K content.if it looked crap on your state of the art Panasonic gel God knows how it must look on cheaper 4K TVs,catalogue garbage and supermarket TVs.these are the people have most definitely been conned.lets not forget about the poor folk that invested in 4K straight away they can't even watch Netflix!.
gel said:4K Blu-Ray is crap!