4K on 1080p monitor?

To play in 4K & Streaming in 4K, is it really needed to have a tv that supports 4K?

Or will 4K work on a 1080p TV?

I'm thinking of Playstation 4 Slim & PC.

You can't stream it with out a 4k tv Netflix want let you

Is it just netflix?

What about youtube, can I watch a video in 4K if it supports 4K, on a 1080p monitor?

You won't be able to do this on PS4 Slim - it will force you to display at the native resolution. Which is fine, because there isn't much benefit to streaming a 4K show on a 1080p TV.

However, the PS4 Pro will supposedly offer supersampling, which is a case where it renders at a higher resolution and it gets resampled for display on your 1080p TV. This is a feature that is easy to implement on PC. But the only benefits are as follows: it can substitute for or enhance anti-aliasing methods, and - when supported - it can get your system working with higher quality assets that were reserved for 4K resolution originally. So you can get *some* improvement in visual fidelity using supersampling, depending on how well it is supported by the game.

I see no point, whatsoever, for you to try to force 4K netflix to work on a 1080p display.

This is not a SW topic, I am moving this to General Discussion

Oh okay, thanks for the information!

So yeah I guess that even Playstation PRO wont let me to stream on netflix/youtube & play on a 1080p monitor?

And thanks for moving this, was unsure where to place this x)

Unless it gets super sample it won't look better in 1080p.....if you loving the look of 4k make the jump it's nice

A 1080p display can show at most 1920 * 1080 pixels. Pixels, in case you don't know, are small squares that have a specific color each frame. The more pixels a screen has, the finer details it can show.

4k screens have 3840 × 2160 pixels. So 4k video has 8,294,400 pixels. If you try to watch it on a 1080p screen that has only 2,073,600 pixels and since pixels can only have one color per frame each, excess pixels will be discarded. So there is no point viewing a source that is more than 1080p on a 1080p screen.

@pug987: Yeah you're right, didn't have a clue before, the only thing I knew were that more pixels = better picture x)

Ty!

@pug987:

I know this is an old post, but it's not all about pixels, but also about bitrate. Netflix's 4k video has a higher bitrate than the 1080p video. For example, how a Blu-Ray 1080p video looks better than a streamed 1080p, because Blu-Ray movies have a higher bitrate. Because of this, I think a 4k stream on Netflix would, in fact, look better than the 1080p stream, even though it's not showing all the pixels.