Thanks Adam. That's a great BBC article.
On Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 5:19 AM Adam Bowie, <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 3:49 AM Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Close but not the same. >> >> >> https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/174221-no-tv-makers-4k-and-uhd-are-not-the-same-thing >> >> > UHD is very slightly below 4K. But from a consumer perspective, there's no > real reason to get rid of a "UHD" TV because a 4K TV is available. Nobody > is going to notice a practical difference between the two. Things like an > OLED screen or HDR might make a difference, however. > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 4:44 AM Doug Eastick <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Agreed on the compression. >> I happened to be quite close to my tv during a football game this >> afternoon (I think 1080) and wow those Eagles got blurry in motion. >> >> > I must confess that I like a bit of motion blur in sports coverage - or > indeed anything. Motion smoothing settings on TV sets is the work of the > devil. > > But yes, it's all about compression really. 4K is all very well, but if > the compression is low for bandwidth reasons or whatever, then the picture > is inferior. It's why a Blu Ray will just about always look better than the > same material on Netflix (unless they've tried to squeeze too many episodes > onto one disc or whatever). > > It's also worth saying that it's technically very challenging doing high > resolution broadcasting live. With pre-recorded material, computers can > compress the picture in such a way as to retain quality. But that takes > time. In a live environment, it's much harder. There's a great technical > blog that the BBC's R&D published about its broadcasting of the World Cup > last summer in 4K: > https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2018-07-ultra-high-definition-uhd-viewing > > > Adam > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
