4K questions

[MonKENy]

So I hear they are working on putting out 4k capable Blu Rays

I know its going to require new players but whats the general feeling about 4k coming up? How long until it gets pushed main stream?

I was looking at the Samsung SUHD TV at best buy and I was for the first time since plasma kind of wowed by the quality. It was the 78" curved Suhd 3D LED. $8k so I told my dad its time to start watching because in the next year or two it will maybe be time to upgrade.

He has a 60" Pioneer Kuro Elite, but thats pushing 7+ years now. Fantastic quality but starting to show some age. Dark scenes are almost to dark, where if there is a lot of shadow its hard to tell whats going on. Seems to happen to older TV's.

With a PC pushing 4k, Its different playing a 4k video than say trying to play a game in 4k right? I assume because the game needs to be calculated and has physics rendering and what not its way more intensive than just a video.

So If I were to get a 4k TV, get a 4k video file and hook my r9 270x up to my 4k 7.1 ready receiver would I be able to play the video with no loss of quality, or stuttering, or issues?

 

[sdifox]

Video playback should be fine. Gaming, no.

 

[Murloc]

You can't game at 4K comfortably with most computers, except for specific games optimized to specific brands of video cards (and even then you spend a lot of money on hardware).
If you read some anandtech reviews you'll see that the question of single videocard 4K gaming is always used as a benchmark to see if we're there yet.
If you add the fact that many gamers cares about the refresh rate and the response time, there's nothing that satisfies all requirements.

4K playback is usually not a problem.

 

[JeffMD]

Actually 4k will initially require a performance bump as well. Most video cards and cpu hardware support hardware x264 acceleration, 4k uses h265. You will be seeing most modern PCs pushing software h265 decoding which will probably kick out a lot of budget processors like pentiums and a8/a10.

4k bluerays will jump in like 3d, but unlike 3d it will be a steady increase as 4k will eventually become more commonplace.

4k's target is owners of big screen tv's. 1080p really hit its limits at 50" and higher. I was just at best buy and giggled when one of LGs 1080p OLED tv displays looked like crap cause it made seeing the pixels even easier.

 

[s44]

No AMD card supports more than 30fps on a 4k TV (lack of HDMI 2.0/2.0a support).

edit - also, if your AVR is more than six months old, it almost certainly lacks certain features to pass the video signal perfectly through

 

[MonKENy]

No AMD card supports more than 30fps on a 4k TV (lack of HDMI 2.0/2.0a support).

edit - also, if your AVR is more than six months old, it almost certainly lacks certain features to pass the video signal perfectly through

http://www.onkyousa.com/Products/model.php?m=HT-S9700THX&class=Systems&source=prodClass