A new TV offers the possibility to watch 4k movies to me. I am thinking about upgrading my library but I’m not sure if I want to replace my 1080 collection. I’ve read that some use a separate 4k library.

Do you? How do you deal with it? I mostly add movies with trakt and radarr automatically. Do you use separate accounts?

  • hperrin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    I honestly can’t tell the difference between 4K and 1080 unless I’m right up to the screen, so I only have a few choice favorites (that are heavy on the special effects) in 4K. It’s such a massive amount more space just for a slightly better picture.

    • PrecisePangolin@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      This right here. We can obviously tell a difference but the leap in quality from 1080p (Blu-ray) to 4k is not the leap that dvd to Blu-ray was. I have most in 1080p and my very few favorites or very iconic movies that benefit from the higher res, in 4k.

      • wolfshadowheart@kbin.social
        0·
        9 months ago

        I think the only difference is the encoding quality of 1080p can beore noticeable, but if it’s a high quality file then it’s fine. Other than that, dark movies. Dark movies seem to greatly benefit from 4k even on 1080p displays.

        Could be the encode again, but I’ve tried a few different versions of files

    • topinambour_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      I remember an article explaining 4k in theater was interesting only if your screen was over 10meter wide, it was maybe 7 or 8 years ago.

      Back then the debate for theaters was should be the “next gen” be 48fps, or 4k.

    • pacoboyd@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      I’m pretty close to this, I still don’t keep 4k, I re-encode to 2k and save buckets of space for the things I want a really nice copy of. Even on my big screen I’m hard pressed to tell the difference.