Are 4K Movies worth the Price

jms19 Agreed! If you're watching on your phone or tablet ... nope. If you're watching on a large 4K TV screen, yes However, I'm not sure I'd change existing movies I had bought. Only choose 4K going forwards. There's some nostalgia to lower quality older things anyway

martinlufc5637 Thank you for that. I see that blu ray prices tend to be a lot more reasonable so I will consider that

PaxAmerica 4k is only as good as the player you use, the TV you have and believe it or not the hdmi cables you use , it's an expensive set up to enjoy 4k movies as they should be watched, I notice the difference on some movies but some movies are no better than a blue-ray player.

momhobnob666 Oh I never considered the library of 4K not being as wide. Thanks

PaxAmerica there is thousands of 4k movies, just about every major film new or old is available on 4k

ACR thanks

BonzoBanana funny that chart features 480 because in Europe/Australia it was 576.

And getting into that, it's a shame that Europe/Australia was cursed with the PAL format, it just should have been NTSC for all.

PhilipMarc Cursed seems a bit strong, 576i or 576p is still a higher resolution and the colour accuracy was much more accurate. NTSC was jokingly called 'Never twice the same color' as its colour accuracy was so poor. Yes I realise the frame rate was less at 25p or 50i but people watch movies at 24p and don't complain. I think the Pal Superbit DVDs were really great quality. They looked much better than your standard 480p dvds.

Yes that chart is from a US source I assume but 576p/i wouldn't be much better, I guess you would have to be slightly closer to appreciate the difference between 576p/i over 480p/i.

BonzoBanana For games it ran at 50Hz so slower than the standard 60Hz and for movies/shows they made it slightly faster although the viewer wouldn't be able to tell if he/she didn't know.

It's mainly the gaming aspect that affected it the most as PAL games were technically inferior and only by the DC/PS2 era they started offering PAL60 so they knew it needed to change.

www.benoitren.be/60hz-palps2.html

Red Dead Revolver was one of them and thank god that game is awesome.

PhilipMarc Fair comment about the games that used to annoy me as well, in fact I fitted a 50/60hz switch to my Megadrive back in the day so I could game at 60 frames per second for the full gameplay experience.

BonzoBanana Oh yeah nowadays I can't even play a PAL Genesis/SNES/NES because of that slowdown so collecting PAL games just seems kind of pointless to me.

However, Dragon's Lair PAL version on the NES is somehow faster than the NTSC and that makes the game a lot more playable.

NTSC (first) vs PAL (second)

I'll stick with emulation and via emulation old games can look brand new with some impressive filters (e.g. PSP games and okay it's not that old but wow does it look great), and PS1 PAL games can be forced to run at 60Hz so that's pretty cool.

PhilipMarc The only good think about 50Hz or 25 frames per second was when it slowed down games a bit I often could get better scores as it gave me a little bit more reaction time on some games. I seem to remember years ago there was a device that would slow down games by attaching to the interface port and causing interrupts to the CPU so it would drop the frame rate and then crap players like me had more time to react. I never had one myself though and I can't even remember what format it was for. I was never a great games player despite really enjoying them but now as get older I'm even slower reacting. Games I once found easy are now getting more difficult if they are reaction time based.

PhilipMarc I watch a lot of kodi stuff and often its only available in 480p or 720p and 1080p even with a fast connection is not reliable even if you get that option which isn't very often. I've never seen a Kodi 4k option for popular kodi addons like Scrubs. I did watch Equalizer 3 in 1080p for about 3 minutes before I realised it was missing the subs which you really need for that movie so ended up in 480p because it had working subtitles.

BonzoBanana I watch via Kofi because of its intuitive UI, but it's always from a USB stick typically 128GB.

I also have a 256GB USB (bought it primarily for PS4 backups yet the console recognizes as less than 256GB so that's disappointing oh well). Having 128GB and 256GB on the go is really handy as you can store a ton and take it with you.

And now there's even 1TB SD cards. Kinda crazy that a tiny card can hold so much and if you told people about it in the 90's they wouldn't believe you.