HDR, perhaps not a big deal now but it will be. (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Saturday, July 29, 2017, 15:54 (2734 days ago) @ DEEP_NNN
edited by Cody Miller, Saturday, July 29, 2017, 16:06

You should not try to hold back the clock.

There is a difference between a snowy awful SD TV signal, and a 1080p signal. There are limits to human perception. You could record and playback 192khz 32bit audio, and it would sound just like 44.1khz 16 bit (and actually possibly worse due to the inaudible signals causing distortion). Because 44.1khz 16 bit is enough to perfectly record the entire range of human hearing.

There is a minuscule, if any difference between 1080p and 4K on a 40-50 inch screen. You need to sit 10 feet from a 150 inch screen to fully resolve 4K over 1080p. This is optics and human biology. Meanwhile you are using horsepower to render 4x the pixels. You will improve the image in much more demonstrable ways by using that GPU power for more shaders and graphical effects. There is a huge sacrifice to 4K, and very little if any gain.

Believe me. I am a stickler for quality. I purposely saw Dunkirk on a real IMAX screen with real IMAX film rolling through the projector. Wasting that on the dinky screen of your local multiplex was unthinkable.