4k TV at 1080p look like

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#1  Edited By skipper847
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I'm planning on getting a 55" 4K TV HDR. Just wondering what PC games be like on it at lower resolution like 1080p or what resolution is best if you cant use 4k on your PC. I would be using it though for Netflix 4k etc from PC but what about gaming at other resolutions?. I know that on my 1440p monitor that 1080p looks very blurry at 27" will this be same for a 55"TV at 1080p.

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#2 firedrakes
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gaming and 4k video are two separate things.

4k video is made for movie size screens.

gaming video is different two.

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#3  Edited By skipper847
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Ive seen this TV https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-and-home-entertainment/televisions/televisions/lg-50uk6470plc-50-smart-4k-ultra-hd-hdr-led-tv-10178164-pdt.html Its LG 50UK6470PLC 50" Smart 4K Ultra HD HDR LED TV its an extra £100 for 55" so will go with 50" instead. Its £479.

Is there different versions of HDR now as this is 4K HDR Ultra HD Certified with HDR10. Hope its this price in 3 weeks as that's good savings.

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#4  Edited By skipper847
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@firedrakes: Hi. Thanks I didn't realize that. What will the default resolution be then for PC gaming and console.

Been to a shop today and had a good look round and decided on SONY BRAVIA KD49XF7073SU 49" Smart 4K Ultra HD HDR LED TV which is £599. Not ordered it yet but will be doing. Getting wall mount too where you can swing it round in any position. Prefer to pay that bit extra and get bells and whistles hehe.

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#5 firedrakes
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the box can say hdr. but unless it has the certificated. then its a gamble

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#6  Edited By Ish_basic
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TVs use mathematics to best-fit a lower res image to a higher resolution display - this is uncreatively called upscaling. I suppose how well this works is dependent on the TV, but you have to expect that in an age where 4k is just not that available for TV purposes that 4k TVs have to be able to do this to keep themselves relevant to non-gamers. In other words, it shouldn't be blurry. I mean, try to get them to show you some 1080p stuff on the 4k TV at the store if you can.

Monitors tend to have less going on inside them than your average TV (which isn't necessarily a bad thing) and so may not perform upscaling as well, turning the image into something that looks like it was resized in photoshop. In the case of a monitor without decent upscaling my preference is to set it to 1 to 1 mode, which keeps the picture sharp at the expense of screen size.

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Will any HDMI cable work with 4k from a 1080gtx or has it got to be a certain type?. I no that where I'm getting the TV from will try and flog me a £50 HDMI even in this day of age they still try. The TV im getting as HDMI 2.0 so will it have to be a newer HDMI cable?.

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#8 Ish_basic
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afaik HDMI is backwards compatible, so even if you're using a 1.x cable, it should work, but you probably want at least a 2.0 cable for its better performance and future proofing in general. I'm pretty sure cables pre-2.0 limit 4k framerate to the movie standard (24fps). I believe 2.0 is capped at 60fps for 4k and 2.1 brings it up to 120fps for 4k+.