Where Can You Get 4K Video?

[tomsguideUS]

Though 4K televisions are out now, it looks likes 2014 will be the year you have something to watch in the format. Here's why.

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[tomc100]

Do movies even film in 4K? Also, there are no camcorders that record in 4K either so forget about home videos. For 4K televisions to catch on they need to start producing media or have home equipment that records in 4K.

 

[blader15sk8]

@tomc100, it was a while before 1080p came into the hands of the consumer in the form of camcorders, so it will just be a matter of time before 4k is as well. The biggest hurdle we have at the moment is storage.. 4k video content can fill a memory card 4x as fast as fast as 1080p, so most 4k cameras record on to super fast and super expensive SSDs to keep up. Consumer cameras will need to start supporting h.265 (or some similar codec) as well as faster and larger storage and a processor capable of encoding it in real time. Right now that is limited to professional and some prosumer cameras like the RED cameras, or the Blackmagic cameras.

 

[targetdrone]

A bigger question is what's going to replace Blu-ray to distribute Ultra HD content?
Streaming 40GB per movie will eat up a 200GB month data cap very very quickly and the time to download that much on the average consumer grade connection will take a long time. Not everyone goes for the 100MB+ fiber line.

 

[techguy911]

Cable is still running at 720p in North America still don't have true 1080p also saying they can stream 4k video that is a laugh do they realize that bandwidth will eat the caps isp's placed on file transfers in 2 movies.

Can amazon really handle that much data transfer the costs would be enormous files would average 160-200 GB.

 

[InvalidError]

Movies are usually filmed at beyond-HD resolutions to make editing easier and cleaner: much easier to remove green-screen bleed-through when you can mask it out with 4X the precision... and after down-scaling, whatever bleed-through remains ends up accounting for a much smaller chunk of the final pixel's value.

 

[techguy911]

Uncompressed 4k version of the trailer for The Amazing Spiderman takes up a whopping 500GB of hard disk space.
Just imagine what a 2h movie uncompressed would take!.

 

[4k Note 3 user]

It was reported that the 4k video feature of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 was disabled on the units sold in North America, that is not the case. My Note 3 has the capability of shooting 3840 x 2160 at 30 frames per second. I bought it in Michigan.

 

[10tacle]

"Vizio is promising a 50-inch 4K TV for $1,000"Sign me up for one! It would be a great 4K PC monitor to replace my 27" 1440p. Now the video cards to run games on it, that's another story. "Sony and Panasonic have announced the two companies are working on 300GB Blu-ray discs for the end of 2015"Holy crap! Just 10 movies on a hard drive stored would be 3TB, almost the capacity of the largest available single HDDs (4TB). So those like me who like to back up their Blu-Ray movies to a media server are looking at 6x the storage space needs per movie with 4K. Wow. I suppose everything is relative however as the jump from 4GB movie DVDs to 25GB movie BDs seemed monumental in 2006, and it certainly was considering the largest HDDs back then were 750GB. But even so, that meant you could theoretically stick 30 Blu-Ray movies on a single HDD at that time (depending on movie length of course). Compare that to the theoretical 16 BDs that can be stuck on a 4TB single HDD.

 

[david__t]

And in all of this discussion, once again audio is a poor relation to the picture. We only just got poor quality Dolby Digital on some programmes / films. I would rather dedicate the extra bandwidth to HD-Master Audio rather than 4K. This is all about TV manufacturers trying to find new ways to sell TVs now that 3D has epically failed. The other issue for cable / satellite is not the content being available but the bandwidth on the comms satellites in orbit and on people's broadband connections.

 

[joe1946]

If we had to wait for what consumers want we would still be living in caves. I have the 4K Panasonic GH4 on order along with a 4K UHD TV and will get the Asus i3 ChromeBox to stream 4K content off youtube and Netflix.

 

[mygica8]

you can stream 4K content on the new Mygica ATV 582 or MyGica ATV 1800. retail price is $159 to $189. this is the cheapest way to stream it on your TV.

 

[GeoInSD]

4k is great. I am all for it as long as the price isn't too bad. That said, there isn't really all that much quality 1080p content available outside of Blu-ray. I would rather the industry perfect 1080p before moving on to a greater number of cr*ppy pixels.

High quality 1080p looks great even viewed up close on a 60" screen. Content providers still have quite a way to go delivering good 1080p, let alone 4k. I predict it will be a few years before there is quality 4k considering the industry still hasn't pushed 1080p to its limit.

 

[joe1946]

4k is great. I am all for it as long as the price isn't too bad. That said, there isn't really all that much quality 1080p content available outside of Blu-ray. I would rather the industry perfect 1080p before moving on to a greater number of cr*ppy pixels.

High quality 1080p looks great even viewed up close on a 60" screen. Content providers still have quite a way to go delivering good 1080p, let alone 4k. I predict it will be a few years before there is quality 4k considering the industry still hasn't pushed 1080p to its limit.

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Show me a screenshot from a 1080p youtube video with as much detail as the following 4K UHD 2160p youtube video:
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[khpura]

@tomc100, it was a while before 1080p came into the hands of the consumer in the form of camcorders, so it will just be a matter of time before 4k is as well. The biggest hurdle we have at the moment is storage.. 4k video content can fill a memory card 4x as fast as fast as 1080p, so most 4k cameras record on to super fast and super expensive SSDs to keep up. Consumer cameras will need to start supporting h.265 (or some similar codec) as well as faster and larger storage and a processor capable of encoding it in real time. Right now that is limited to professional and some prosumer cameras like the RED cameras, or the Blackmagic cameras.

Well said as hardware gets cheaper the more 4k videos will be uploaded on the web. As we know now most of the new cell phones are capable of shooting 4k videos, so it is just a matter of time that youtube will be filled with 4k videos.