Even Samsung doesn't upload most of their videos in 4k

Torrenting (especially with debrid services) is such a blessing for 4k. Even bluray 1080p looks amazing compared to the "4k" streaming services that gives like half that bitrate.

Piracy always was, is and will be better then what they sell

Piracy, piracy, piracy. I have 60TB of Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray movie files. Some are even better than the original disks because the uploading pirate makes a new file using the best video from one disk (like from Japanese release) then the audio from another (say French) and other stuff from other disks getting you a better version than any Blu-ray available to buy in the world!

And drm free too hell yeah thats a steal right there

And for many streaming services, getting true 4K streams costs extra.

Otherwise they just feed you the 4K content but in lower resolution.

Or take your money but send you 720p anyway
- Netflix is very kind in this area, when they say it's 4k, it's 3840x2160p 4k, but it also is just a 720p video with linear upscaling applied.
So basically, it's not 4k
- It’s like 5g—it is if you believe it is.

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1080p less than content?

Content with a resolution greater than 1080p

Ehhh I mean… outside of up close, high res gaming? 4k doesn’t matter, it’s an excuse to add an extra 1k onto the price tag of a tv or monitor. Refresh rate is way more important.

If you watch a 4k bluray. It's night and day compared the 1080p. Same goes for the audio quality of them blurays. Compare 4k ones against standard bluray and there's a massive difference. And sadly there's also a massive difference favouring standard blurays against 4k streamed content.
- Oh yeah there’s definitely a significant difference between 1080 and 4k visually, but it’s not super impactful for me anyway
My TV is 4K and I wouldn't know if I'm watching something in 4K or not unless I was scrutinising it. Especially the attrocious bitrates services stream their 4K at. I do notice 720 is a bit "fuzzy", but that's about it.
- Yeah 720 vs 1080 is very noticeable. I will say even 1440 has its place for specific types of displays.
  But it all comes down to distance I think, the closer you are to the display the more the pixel density influences your experience; refresh rate is impactful at any distance and resolution
- Maybe because your TV is too small?
  4k is not about a sharper picture, neither was 1080p. The sharpness was already good enough. The point of the increase in resolution is larger TVs at the same sharpness. Back when I had an SD TV it was 576p on a 28” screen. When I moved on to 1080p I got a 50” TV. Notice how the size and the resolution increase are in the same ballpark. Now with 2160p I have a 77” TV, so there is still a little wiggle room. I could get to 100” at 4k before I would have to consider 8k.
  TVs got larger over the years, and that was made possible by the increase in resolution. There is still some room for growth in 4k.
- I always use the resolution above my screen's on youtube, because the bitrate's so bad, and the difference is very very noticable on monitors
As a person who stares at a lot of text up close, 4k makes a difference. I don't notice antialiasing pixels anymore, my eyes finally see it as a smooth blend and it looks like I'm reading actual print.
- Are you staring at the text on a monitor up close or a tv from afar?
You can get a new 4K TV for ~200€, and most phones come with a camera greater than 8.3MP, but there's almost no 4K content available outside of Netfilx shows and tech youtubers
- The dark seed of the force is a pathway to many resolutions that some might consider…unnatural.
- Point me to one of those TVs bud- im sure they exist but at what size?
Disagree. Watched a 4K HDR remux of Alien on my OLED TV last night and the quality was mindblowing. Bitrate matters more than resolution overall, but once you’re at the “enough” point you’ve gotta increase resolution to really push the quality up.
Depends. I never noticed it on streaming services (that might just be because they suck tho so idk) but once I tried it on a game on my PC it did look different. But the amount of added GPU power I‘d need is just not worth it imo.
Smoothbrain ignorance like this is just noise.
- someone has different opinions
  downvotes and insults
  You okay kiddo?

Because it isn't subjective. It's optics. I don't abide jibjab. Write better if you just mean that you're blind and couldn't see the difference between watching Videoman and a Dolby Cinema. And just as cheap, apparently, because 1080-anything is either extinct or about to be... And replaced by 4K/3K/2K forthe same price.

I'm not being hostile, I'm being smug. I can change to hostile if you like?

Can you change to coherent?
- Seems clear to me. Enjoy your framerate.