{"id":684,"date":"2013-01-19T11:02:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T16:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nccomputertech.com\/?p=684"},"modified":"2013-01-19T11:02:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T16:02:09","slug":"answer-line-4k-hdtvs-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2013\/01\/19\/answer-line-4k-hdtvs-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Answer Line: 4K HDTVs Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2023051\/answer-line-4k-hdtvs-explained.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/nccomputertech.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/0114-thumb-100019035-orig.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 4K HDTV, also known as an Ultra HDTV or a UDTV, is a television with approximately 4,000 pixels of horizontal resolution. Or, to be more specific, not quite 4,000 pixels of horizontal resolution. A UDTV actually has 3840 pixels horizontally and 2160 vertically, giving it four times the resolution of standard 1080p.<br \/>\nAnd yes, there&#8217;s an extremely confusing terminology change here. For many years, we&#8217;ve been describing television resolution by the exact vertical resolution&#8211;480, 720, 1080. Now we&#8217;re supposed to move to an approximate horizontal resolution&#8211;with the familiar 1080p (1920 horizontal pixels) being the equivalent to 2K.<br \/>\nFor what it&#8217;s worth, the xK terminology is only new for consumer technology. Professional digital cameras, scanners, and movie theater projectors have been labeled 2K and 4K for years.<br \/>\nBut does 4K make sense in a consumer environment? I doubt it&#8211;at least if you don&#8217;t have a front projector and a wall-sized screen. And even then, you&#8217;ll get little out of the difference.<br \/>\nMost of what you see in movie theaters these days is in 2K, and it looks great. Most movie theaters have 2K digital projectors, and even the ones with 4K projectors usually run 2K content, because that&#8217;s what the studios provide. In fact, a great many theaters with 4k projectors never remove their 3D lenses, which effectively turn them into 2K projectors. (Some of them don&#8217;t even bother to remove the 3D filters, which make them very dark 2K projectors; you&#8217;ll find more on that issue here.)<br \/>\nAnother reason why you don&#8217;t need a 4K TV: There&#8217;s no 4K content to speak of. Sure, the TV manufacturers are going to include some content in the TV itself, but that will be limited and possibly not what you want to see.<br \/>\nIn the long run, I may be wrong. But in the here and now, 4K TVs are worthwhile only for people suffering from TMM (Too Much Money).<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2023051\/answer-line-4k-hdtvs-explained.html\" target=\"_blank\">Answer Line: 4K HDTVs Explained | PCWorld<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 4K HDTV, also known as an Ultra HDTV or a UDTV, is a television with approximately 4,000 pixels of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[23,474,483],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-technology","tag-4k","tag-hdtv","tag-home-theater"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/papNkV-b2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8839,"url":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2016\/02\/22\/roku-4-vs-amazon-fire-tv-reviews-which-box-is-best-for-4k-streaming\/","url_meta":{"origin":684,"position":0},"title":"Roku 4 vs. Amazon Fire TV reviews: Which box is best for 4K streaming?","author":"NCCT","date":"February 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"By Jared Newman | PCWorld First came the 4K TVs, now come the 4K streaming boxes. 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