You'll need to buy the next PS4 or Xbox One revision for 4k.

I can see it now...fast forward a couple of years.

"You can't even see the difference between 1080p and 4k. Resolution is just a number!"

Just watch.

@FastRobby: Actuallymicrosoft said the Xbox One would be able to do 4K games because of the power of the cloud.

@Motokid6: When we were still watching 32" tube tvs the difference between 1080p and 480p would have been negligible. Tvs are getting bigger and bigger every year so higher resolutions are needed to keep the image looking good.

4K tvs don't make sense for most people. If you're buying a 55" TV, chances are you won't need 4k but at the right distance you could still see a difference. With 75-80" tvs becoming the norm, 4k will make a bigger impact.

I am personally more excited that LG is launching 65 and 75" OLED this year. If that 65" hits $3000 I will be all over it.

4k? lol. No thanks I'm not buying a new tv. 1080p is more than fine. And they don't even make games in 4k.

I'm not overly surprised. My next TV is likely going to be a 4K, but that'll be in a few months.

It begins.

55" Samsung's are going for $1500 now.

55" Samsung 4k, $1199 with free shipping on Amazon.

The only thing they need to change in order to output 4k is the HDMI port. HDMI 2.0 is surely planned in the revision of the consoles as it's the next standard anyway. It's not rocket science. You don't need to be nostradamus to make the connection.

The stupidity of this forum never ceases to amaze

You didn't read the article, did you? The consoles lack the hardware decoders necessary to stream Netflix and Amazon streaming video. It isn't just a matter of "just change HDMI port to 2.0."

Sadly yes...

4k stream? lol

4k Netflix streams look nice in 4k... I have a 55"4k tv next to a 52" 1080p in my game room and the difference between the 2 is like night and day ive tried a few games over both tvs using my pc i52500k with 970s sli and the 1080p set looks like a blurry jaggy mess next to it! I just use my 1080p set for consoles now. but having to upgrade ps4s/ones just to play 4k content is just plain stupid! just get a 4k smart tv that can stream 4k that also has hdmi 2.0 and been done with it cause neither console is gonna be playing graphic intensive games at 4k

It will be a few years until stuff is being broadcast in 4K, so it will be a few years until I have a reason to buy a 4K TV. By then the Slim PS4 and Slim Xbone will be out and they will probably have 4K support.

i wont buy 4k until i start seeing more 4k blu ray movies...which are less then 10

Don't you need display port or two hdmi cables for a proper 4k output?

No they didn't, but show me a source, I'll happily say I'm wrong

DisplayPort has high bandwidth...you may be thinking of Dual Link DVI, which isn't even two cables. I don't know of any single display that would use two HDMI cables. Almost all modern HDMI cables support 4k resolutions already.

Most don't? I'm not aware of any that do. None that I know of even broadcast in 1080p let alone 4K, just 720p and 1080i. And I'm talking about native resolution, not scaling. Sure, cable boxes might upscale to 1080p but if any channels through some cable company (Or even over the air) are actually broadcasting at 1080p that's news to me.

Speaking of 4K TVs why is it that every time I hear about a 4K TV with decent specs it has one of those ridiculous curved screens? No way I will ever buy a TV with a curved screen. Been a few times I've been reading about a TV and thought "hey, maybe time to upgrade" and then it says something about a curved screen and that kills it immediately.

http://us.hardware.info/reviews/5156/6/amd-a10-7850k-kaveri-review-amds-new-apu-extras-trueaudio-and-new-uvd

Hardware-based support for the brand new H.265 / HEVC codec that will be used for 4K content is not yet a part of UVD, but there's good news in this department. Together with Telestream, AMD has developed HEVC codec that uses HSA that's able to play 4K HEVC content on Kaveri with a very low load on the CPU. It's unclear how and when that codec will become available to consumers, but the fact that the chip is specifically suitable for 4K HEVC is great news if you want to build an HTPC. AMD also wants HSA to be used for Open Source projects, so it wouldn't surprise us if they release an HSA-compatible OpenCL open source H.265 codec

http://fr.slideshare.net/ssuser512d95/final-apu13-philrogerskeynote21

PS4's GPU (with 18 CU GCN) for HSA type work beats AMD Kaveri APU (with 8 CU GCN). PS4's GPU was design with improved GpGPU handling i.e. 8 ACE units.

Notice AMD is using Sony as their reference Ultra HDTV screen...

BattleField 4 at 4K resolution doesn't cross 970's 3.5 GB VRAM issue.

@mikhail: Didnt sony and MS state the consoles would play 4K video from the start? best check this like

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost.php?p=1337428124&postcount=5

AMD's Radeon HD 6870 HDMI with 30bit (10bit per component) mode.

@ronvalencia: Sorry i must be missing the point here?

And People give Nintendo bad lip for Doing this same thing with the New 3DS.

Can we have them do a steady 1080P before we worry about 4k with these machines? Next gen will be out before 4k is relevant.

nope is not and considering hardware supported HECV is almost non existent at the moment its obvious new hardware is needed since software rendering HECV is quite cpu intensive ( even on my i5 i see 70-80% usage playing a HECV at 4k ) and impossible not only on consoles but most pc's as well . In fact the only consumer product with native HECV support i can think of is Nvidias GTX 960 ( not even 970 and 980 have a hardware decoder for HECV )

Last gen: Cows: "Nobody cares about 1080p, only hermits do. 720p is good enough"

This gen: Cows: "Lolololol Xbone and WiiU can't do 1080p, what outdated hardware."

Meanwhile on PC:

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Sorry peasants maybe in 2-3 gens from now you'll be able to experience 4k at 25-30fps......

Bummer. In a few years 4K TVs will be the price of regular TVs, and even the cheaper GPUs will be able to handle it.

4K display prices are already starting to drop pretty quick. You can even get super cheap ones with linear upscaling for less that $1000 (less if you go below 50"); and who cares about the upscaling algorithms when you have a 4K source.

...by that time, the current gen of consoles will not even be half-over.

@ShepardCommandr: Eh. It's not like a huge leap....

Just because you don't know they exist doesn't mean they are irrelevant. Just makes you look stupid. Most would agree, you're stupid.

@l0ngshot: how many android consoles have been sold? 10? lmao yeah its irrelevant.

@FastRobby: http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/23/4359450/xbox-one-will-support-4k-output-resolution-and-3d

They said there's no hardware restriction there at all and the Xbox one. This was shortly after the botched announcement.

4K compressed?

@ShepardCommandr: My iPhone can play those tech demo videos too... Why not show us some images from YOUR PC. Oh wait, you probably can't since only the 1% can run those at respectable frame rate.

4K is not something Im paying attention to or see my self looking at in the next few years either.

If a PS4 comes out with 4K capabilities... cool... I dont need it, but maybe in 5 -8 years from now it might be something that I would look at.

By then I would assume 4k TV and consoles will be much cheaper (or the PS5 would be out so I'll just get a PS5 then).

Neckbeards playing World of Warcraft and the Sims in 4k lol!

no MMORPG for ps4 moo cows....

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/02/sony-sells-sony-online-entertainment/?ncid=rss#HTLa4w:cgS

Well it won't be used for gaming since PS4 and Xbox One are struggling to output in 720p on some games. As far as video, I'll be ready to stream 4k when I upgrade my gaming laptop. My TV won't be 4k until the price on 4k OLEDs comes down.

If he's a PC gamer then yes.

Thing about 1080p is I don't think a lot of people realize how sharp that is if the source content is good. About the only thing we've got that is high-quality 1080p is blu ray movies and the problem with those is that older films are grainy because of film stock of the time and newer movies, even those shot digitally, pretty much always have artificial grain added to them because for whatever crazy reason directors/cinematographers have convinced themselves that a movie doesn't look like a movie unless there's some graininess (I personally agree that 24fps is more cinematic cuz I don't know, maybe I'm use to it. But I don't agree that adding artificial grain to a source that is grainless makes it more cinematic at all). I have a few hundred blu ray discs and sadly I've gotten to see what true 1080p without filters to intentionally make it muddy-looking and at a good bitrate looks like only a scant few times. And in those rare instances it really is amazing. Unless you've got cyborg eyes or have your face pressed up to the glass of the screen 4K really doesn't look any better in those instances. And if ya think movies are gonna be sharper on 4k blu ray when it launches at the end of the year I'm thinking that ya should think again. Already 99% of films on 1080p blu ray aren't as sharp as it's capable of because of age or intentional muddying so outside of improved bitrate how can 4K discs look any better when directors/cinematographers have already decided that even 1080p is too sharp of a presentation to be cinematic?

SLI 970's? WTF

Single 970, and I have a Xeon X5660 CPU, not a 5820K.

Check the benchmarks:

Top Gamespot PC Benchmark Scores

I have the 2nd best Single GPU score in 3DMark, best single GPU score in Catzilla, 2nd best single GPU score in CloudGate, best single GPU score in Skydiver,

Medium Settings on a LCD Display, LMAO.

Ill stick to Ultra @ 1080p with lots of AA on a Superior Plasma Display

and are you gonna achieve those ultra settings and lots of AA on consoles ?

I have a 60" hu8550 4K samsung, the thing is a beast for picture quality. I'm pretty pissed that a new hardware revision is required, but then again, the TV already has a plex app and netflix app. In one swoop my TV apps have almost completely taken away all of my console's media features. I literally only use the consoles for games now. Plus the TV has similar features to kinect so ... if they can't output games at that res (which we know they can't even all do 1080p fully) then I guess it's not so bad.

Still, it's a disappointment that they were so short sighted after only one year on the market.

And people are ok with this if Nintendo were to release a new wiiu with features that our current wiiu can't do people would slam them looks at new 3ds I won't buy another ps4 or Xbox one sorry they aren't worth the money