How to view 4K material

[Mir96TA]

Is that possiable to view 4K movie, out of todays computer
5870 GPU (12.4 Driver)
1900X1080
Colors True 32Bit
Basically I am talking about following links
where they are selling 1440 4K movie clip
Link
I am not sure right in computer world what is our limiting factor
Back in CGA EVGA and VGA times it was mostly monitor then DAC then
Video Chipset limitions
From Win 3.10 we are stuck at 16.7 colours nothing more.
We did went up in resoulation but very slow after 1024X768
and we are pretty much stuck at 1920X1080

 

[Cerb]

You can't, with an easily purchasable monitor. The largest readily available monitors are 2560x1440, which I'm sure is why they have that very resolution. 4K is in the pipe, and when it gets cheap enough, we'll have them, but that's not today, not tomorrow, and probably not next year. Bandwidth could be an issue, especially for computer monitors, but I wouldn't be surprised if we see double-bandwidth specs come out soon for HDMI and DP.

Colors True 32Bit

24-bit. The other 8 never make it to your monitor. You can thank NVidia for using "32-bit color" as a marketing tool 12-13 years ago.

From Win 3.10 we are stuck at 16.7 colours nothing more.

Incorrect. We just don't need more colors for purposes other than blending and managing of rounding errors, 99.9% of the time (for example, GPUs support 32 bits per color, internally). True 30-bit displays exist, as well, and quite a few Quadro models can use those bits.

 

[borisvodofsky]

You can't, with an easily purchasable monitor. The largest readily available monitors are 2560x1440, which I'm sure is why they have that very resolution. 4K is in the pipe, and when it gets cheap enough, we'll have them, but that's not today, not tomorrow, and probably not next year. Bandwidth could be an issue, especially for computer monitors, but I wouldn't be surprised if we see double-bandwidth specs come out soon for HDMI and DP.

24-bit. The other 8 never make it to your monitor. You can thank NVidia for using "32-bit color" as a marketing tool 12-13 years ago.

Incorrect. We just don't need more colors for purposes other than blending and managing of rounding errors, 99.9% of the time (for example, GPUs support 32 bits per color, internally). True 30-bit displays exist, as well, and quite a few Quadro models can use those bits.

With current display technologies, we are actually only capable of replicating less than 80% of the visible color space of the human eye.

 

[Cerb]

With current display technologies, we are actually only capable of replicating less than 80% of the visible color space of the human eye.

That's more a RGB issue than a bit-depth one, though. More available RGB colors will gain very little, towards reaching 100% of what we can perceive.

 

[tommo123]

i tried one a while back. DXVA didn't like it so i just used the CPU to render. was fine. no point as i have no 4k output to view on