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Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest
4K is a resolution. This is how it was explained to me from a cinematographer when the Red cam came out years ago and I'm too lazy to verify my memory right now. A 3 chip or Cmos video camera is a sensor were they typically shoot 4:2:2 resolution in 1080. 4 is uncompressed and 2 is compressed. So you get Red Cams that shoot 4:4:4 or very close to it. That's what these TV's are for. Double the 1080 resolution.
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4:2:2 vs. 4:4:4 is about colour compression, it's a way to save a huge amount of storage or bandwidth in video because the human eye doesn't see colour all that well. 4K is just the number of lines displayed.