4K Blu-ray content on the horizon?

[Jimmy Smith]

Originally Posted by Fabiosugitani

I like the idea of the 4K Tvs, but I wonder how much the old movies can get improved from it. At the moment I'm more interested in the thinner frameless tvs, but I understand what the market is trying to do and i can't wait to see it get cheap enough.

Ironically older movies may benefit from it more then many newer ones. 35mm film used for closer to a hundred years now has enough detail to support 4k. Some movies of the last decade were shot digitally with 1080p cameras. A movie is stuck at whatever resolution it was shot at now and forever. For example Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, Sin City, and Star Wars Episodes 2 & 3 were all digitally shot in 1080p and thus the Blu-Rays look as good as these movies possibly can. Re-releasing them in 4k would be completely pointless though they would benefit a bit from upconversion. Meanwhile movies from the 30s like Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind would benefit from 4k and would look better in 4k then many recent movies that were shot in 1080p