UltraHD Blurays and players will start coming by Christmas 2015. Still buying blurays

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Pecker

A quick aside - might the uptake of 4K TVs (which appears to be fairly robust) actually start to accelerate Blu-ray Disc sales?

If someone has a large 4K TV, their DVDs are only producing 1 pixel in every 16, with the other 15 being 'guesses'.

That's got to look pants, I don't care how good your upscaling is.

Steve W

I know you like a bit of empirical evidence Steve, so try this on for size. It depends on whether you consider 55" to be large (said the Bishop to the actress) but a well-mastered DVD is solidly watchable on my 4K TV, and as I've mentioned elsewhere even non-anamorphic stuff is bearable. Bear in mind that once the SD to 1080p conversion takes place inside my BD player, the 4K upscaling is then directly proportional from 1080p up to 2160p so the scaling at that stage is as mathematically precise as such guesswork is ever going to be (which is also why BD to 4K looks so seamless). The quality of a DVD upscale into 4K is more reliant on that initial SD to HD step than anything IMO, as well as turning off all them gash picture enhancement algorithms that reside inside many TVs today. I dread to mention the "c" word but that helps too...

BTW I can't see the pixel structure on my TV (which has 8 million of the little bastards) unless I literally put my eye to the screen, unlike a 1080p set where I can see them from a good few feet away, so even with all those other pixels being guesses it'd take one eagle-eyed mother****er to pick which one is the real deal from a proper viewing distance.