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Re:Why 4K TVs are stupid by belorn on Friday October 19, 2012 @11:04AM (#4673811)
Old content is also unlikely to end up being re-encoded to a size above 1080p. Old TV-shows are already having problems getting to 720p, and shows like star trek has to re-render things to get up to 1080, and shows like babylon 5 has yet to make it to the 720p mark.
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Re:Why 4K TVs are stupid by ludovicurbain on Friday October 19, 2012 @11:07AM (#4673830)
Actually while this may be right for some very old or very cheap content, movies tend to be stored on much higher resolution material - Either way if 4k is not a problem, 8k will be, so it remains an increasingly important concern.
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