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Originally Posted by combustiblefuel
HD channels looked good because we all adopted 1080p and on a 1080p display it looks good. Now they still broadcast 1080p on 4 k so what takes 1 pixel on 1080p display takes 4 pixels 9n a 4k display broadcasting 1080p. Thus looks extremely blurry.
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No, not really true, in my experience.
We had a 720p display for the first couple years of HD, and were feeding it with 1080p that was downcoverted. And, that 720p looked, I'm gonna say, 15x better than 1080p HD looks on my 1080p display now.
By the time 1080p was affordable, we had a 50 inch first, and it looked about the same as the 720p, but was bigger, so marginally acceptable. But it was clear then, that too much compression was already happening. Then they improved the compression algorithms, and my 65 1080p looked about as good as the 50 inch. And now, compression is so heavy again, that the 1080p doesnt really look like HD at all; just a huge low definition display.
I know and understand what youre saying though, and I shudder to think how bad this current over compressed crap HD 1080p would look on a 4K display. I'm guessing about as good as a cell phone video texted vai MMS over Fido's LTE network! In otherwords, unviewable!