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4K monitors
It seems like every week I get another news release on yet another 4K monitor from another manufacturer. They are sub $600 now, with some even cheaper.
Does anyone have any experience with any of these, or have one that you like, based on your research or actual use?
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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We have two Seiki 50 inch ones at the office and I have a 65 inch Seiki at home. The 65 is more glossy than the 50, but all told they’re relatively solid. It’s a nice relatively affordable way to see 4k in action. The real issue is there aren’t many options to feed 4k to these TV’s to see it. iMacs don’t output 4k so you’re really looking at either a rMBP or a nMP.
In terms of near 4k monitors, we also have 2 of the 34in LG UHD monitors with our two nMP’s and those are really really great. $999 at Frys.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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That’s the big question I have. They are selling the TVs, but what 4K content is there to play on it? And how? BluRay isn’t 4K…no 4K TV networks yet…Netflix/Amazon/youTube have 4K yet?
Shane
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[Shane Ross] “Netflix/Amazon/youTube have 4K yet?”
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Steve Connor
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To be fair, 4K Netflix is streaming beautifully in south London.
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I think Disk and traditional broadcast are going to be the late adopters to 4K- online distribution will get there first, where a company like Netflix can serve you at whatever resolution is sniffs out that you need.
I know Netflix has some 4K programming right now, but playback is limited to a couple of TVs with the right internals.
I was really hopping that we’d have seen wider adoption of h.265 so far this year, which is going to be critical for more widespread 4K distribution.
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All the major streamers (except the iTunes Store) have either started limited 4K streaming or have announced it is in the works. Comcast and Time Warner Cable have announced 4K streaming is in the works. Sony has launched it’s own 4K streaming movie service and all the major TV makers (Samsung, LG, etc.,) have accounted 4K streaming partnerships.
Like Marcus said, I think traditional TV broadcasting will remain HD for the foreseeable future because of all the technical hurdles of switching from HD to 4K. Streaming services, on the other hand, can much few limitations. YouTube, for example, went from 240 to 4K in about 7 years, IIRC, and it was pretty invisible to the end user (unlike like the switch from analog to digital broadcasting).
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Dear lord, I can’t imagine how terrible the 4k / compression will be on Time Warner or UVerse. I suggest they figure out how to get HD right first!
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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The 21:9 ones? How is the ergonomics?
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[Marcus Moore] “Netflix can serve you at whatever resolution it sniffs out that you need.”
sure netflix might be sniffing 720P for around a decade.
Larry Jordan has been pretty full on on this though right? the computational decode needs for h265 are pure savage?
and it’s a triple time encode relative to h264?and is it true no one can see 4K over 2K (whatever that is) unless they’re sitting bizarrely close to a 40″ screen in their home?
4K sony images on room slabs are enjoyable, but I’d rather full pipeline high dynamic range and crazy brightness nits myself I think.You’d think the panel manufacturers are pushing themselves down a culdesac where they are engaging in PC destructive commoditisation on pixels, when they could perform apple level quality up-sales on certified film grade acetate plate 12 bit panels measuring forty five inches with 12000 nits faithfully reproducing the 35 mill of apocalypse now.
you’d think the panel makers could do worse than create an internal value driven competition for true home celluloid?
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