Quality difference between BluRay 4K and Streaming

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Originally Posted by sapiendut

Perhaps minimal for some people, but on the dark areas 40 IRE and lower, that’s where the biggest differences are not “minimal at best”. There are so many 4K movies I rented from iTunes that I end up watching either on my 65” as it’s unbearable on the projection screen and HD movies needed to be watched on my 55” in my bedroom because the macroblocking and colour banding are too noticeable on the 65” and completely unwatchable on the projection system.

I'm sure it's much more noticeable on a projection screen.

But I have a 70 inch LCD, and I almost never observe issues with the picture. I was actually disappointed when I got a UHD player there was not a noticeable difference in the image quality.