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Will You Buy a 4K HDTV for Your Next Gen Console?

Will you get a 4K for your new console?

  • Hellz Yeah!

  • No, I have EBT

  • I have a Wii!

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Seeing how both Playstation 4 and Xbox One have 4K support, and with the prices of 4K dropping below 1K, would you consider getting a new 4K TV to compliment your next generation console this fall?
 
4k support sure but no games would realistically be able to use it. They would just be upscaled which means nothing. The newer consoles are more powerful but they will still have trouble running games @ 1080p60 like with Battlefield 4 which will be 720p60. At least we will have more than just a handful of players on the battlefield like current gen games though which is more important to me.

4k will take a long time to adopt, specifically because of the huge file sizes 4k movies would demand. I would wait at least 3 years until I even think about 4k tv's. Obviously, if you're using it as a computer monitor that's a different story.
 
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No, it will be awhile before I decide to get a 4k TV. Only very few games will ever natively be 4k anyways, just like 1080 this gen.
 
Both consoles have weak CPUs and midrange GPUs, so if we're lucky they'll go a good job of rendering at 1080p.

They may "support" 4K through upscaling, but no games will be rendering at 4K native.
 
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Total waste to get a 4K TV for these consoles. Neither of them will have any games that run at higher than 1080p.
 
Also show me a 4k TV that is under $1000 and I don't mean some off branded monitor. It's gotta have a tuner, scaler, etc
 
Current gen consoles support 1080p, but that doesn't mean any of the games are 1080p, or even 720p for that matter. Getting a 4K game strictly because of video games is a waste of money.
 
Nope. My current 1080P plasma and LCD's are just fine. Even if their was an actual resolution advantage with the next gen consoles I'm not replacing my TVs just for gaming.
 
I have a regular 32 LCD 1080p LG. I'll most likely be using this. I could get another one, led, and probably 42 inches. But that would require selling my old tv, getting a new stand, all things I don't feel like doing right now lol.
 
Soon as I upgrade my PC to do 4k then I will get a 4k TV. I wont use it for gaming, just for more real estate while computing.
 
Baked said:
Seeing how both Playstation 4 and Xbox One have 4K support, and with the prices of 4K dropping below 1K, would you consider getting a new 4K TV to compliment your next generation console this fall?
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I do not like to throw money in the garbage.

#1 there is no 4K content on cable or directTV, in fact there is not even 100% 1K content on either.

#2 there are no 4K games.

So why buy something that has no use, and pay through the nose for early tech with no content.

4K will begin to arrive as end user content in about 10 years.
 
Shit I still have a 720p/1080i lcd tv, I always stay a good gen behind on tv's so I'll just now be buying a nice 1080p LED tv this coming january
 
zerocool84 said:
Your wish had been granted. This tv has been out for about 2 months. Quite a few people have already jumped on it.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...w_bottom_links
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I guess I always assumed that 4K would mean ~4000 lines of vertical resolution, which is how people have generally referred to TV res. 1080p, 720p, etc. Have "they" changed it to now refer to horizontal res in the hopes of making it sound like a bigger deal than what it really is? Or is this TV just a stepping stone to a real 4K TV?
 
No. I stick to native displays. I even have a CRT with RGB input for pre component video systems.

Even thinking about looking for native 480p and 720p panels for last couple generation systems.
 
SaurusX said:
I guess I always assumed that 4K would mean ~4000 lines of vertical resolution, which is how people have generally referred to TV res. 1080p, 720p, etc. Have "they" changed it to now refer to horizontal res in the hopes of making it sound like a bigger deal than what it really is? Or is this TV just a stepping stone to a real 4K TV?
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Yes to the 1st. 4K is officially 3840x2160.

That cheap TV is kind of cool, but 30hz is a little bit of a deal breaker. I'm almost certain the 30hz limit is due to the cost of a fast enough processing board to pump the image data in, rather than the panel itself. I'll jump to 4K when I can get 55" 120hz for $2k, which will probably be a few years. Coincidentally, that's probably when PC GPUs will be able to do 4K with good details on a single card, and when 4K content is much more available. If I cared about 4K as a desktop, I might consider it, but I don't want to use a screen that large for a work desktop. I actually really like 1920x1200 and 2560x1600 the best. The 16:9AR bugs the crap out of me for work purposes lol.
 
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