Blu ray

[BillJ]

Just out of interest, will a DVD on a suitable player fed to a UHD TV upscale to 4K, and if so, with that much approximated data, how does it look ?

Part of it will always come down to how well the source material was transferred. But, much of it will look like 240p YouTube videos.

I revisit my Married... with Children DVD's often. The source material was done on videotape and it looks like utter ass. Even on a 720p set.

 

[The Laughing Vulcan]

It all depends on how big your TV is. I have a small-ish HD panel Just 37 inches, and the difference between 1080 and 720 material is immediately obvious to me even at that size. I'm currently watching Deep Space Nine on DVD, after finally deciding to upgrade from VHS (hadn't watched those in nearly 15 years), and I'm using the home cinema for the surround audio, and you know, Deep Space Nine's supposedly crappy transfer is actually watchable on that set, although it gets a lot better in quality after Season 3. It looks bad for a DVD but it's not unwatchable at 37 inches.

 

[BillJ]

It all depends on how big your TV is. I have a small-ish HD panel Just 37 inches, and the difference between 1080 and 720 material is immediately obvious to me even at that size. I'm currently watching Deep Space Nine on DVD, after finally deciding to upgrade from VHS (hadn't watched those in nearly 15 years), and I'm using the home cinema for the surround audio, and you know, Deep Space Nine's supposedly crappy transfer is actually watchable on that set, although it gets a lot better in quality after Season 3. It looks bad for a DVD but it's not unwatchable at 37 inches.

Definitely agree here. SD material is much easier to stomach on my 32" 1080p set than on the 50" 4K.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

I dare say standard Blu-ray looks beautiful on your 4K TV, but at best, what are you actually seeing? 1080p upscaled to some sort of pseudo 4K?

Also your player won't play 4K Blu-ray discs when they eventually come to market en masse.

I think there's no better time than now to pick up a standard HD 50" or bigger. The prices are so low. Just seen a Sharp 50" for £299. Not smart, but I wouldn't care. I picked up one of the last 50" LG plasma sets last year for £450. Was a bargain at the time. Lovely telly though. Miles better than LCD which, being a sports fan, I truly hate with a passion.

Pardon me for asking, but are there really 4K Blu-Ray players?

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/samsung-4k-blu-ray-player/

Thanks.

 

[Salinga]

Its would be easy for the market to force more success to the Blurays: Just stop producing DVDs. Happened with the Audio CD when suddenly Vinyl (which was always way cheaper than the Audio CDs) dissappeared from the markets in the 1990s. So the consumer HAD to buy the more expensive CDs instead of the cheap Vinyls (doubling the costs for singles because you could now only buy Maxi CDs).

 

[Kemaiku]

Yinyl albums are still around and sold enough to matter to the music industry. So...no?

And that doesn't really matter, blurays are still more expensive than DVD's to produce, and even if CBS were to put DS9 and VOY out on them, they would be the SD episodes, just more of them on each disc.