4k UHD – Is it worth it?

Well, VHS was original £100+ for a film to actually buy

Yeah they were. That’s a distant memory but I can remember radio rentals having Far From The Madding Crowd and Enter The Dragon to buy at around 70 quid.

Personally I wouldn’t be looking at Netflix as a good source of 4k. While it can spit out the resolution, the content is likely variable bitrate encoded and the stream is variable bitrate depending on your broadband.

There ain’t nothing wrong with variable bitrate, especially given the level of sophistication of encoding.

Also Netflix use an extemerely clever system of encoding, far beyond discussion here.

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Basically they’re ahead of the game of most other streaming platforms.

There are better ways to serve 4K but our almost lossless Red Raw needs 80MB/S to see in total glory so there’s bound to be trade offs.

OLED might be affordable by the time you need to replace it

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We have OLED view-finders. They are pretty good.

I went OLED HD instead of LCD 4K, the 4K OLED was out of my price range, 99% of what I watch isn’t available in 4K and I get the benefit of decent black levels with whatever I watch.

Given the choice again (even though there is more 4K content now) I would still make the same call.

Quick update. Watched another episode of Stranger Things last night and the picture was superb.

I have changed my Netflix from Auto to High. Also played around with various picture settings on the TV.