4k on a 1080p display

nightrider1470

nightrider1470

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Is there no way to enjoy future UHD 4k blurays on a 1080p display, downscaled?.. All mine are HDMI 1.4

What about if I backed up the 4k discs to my HTPC and removing the 2.2 copy protection? And used a 4k supported video player?

4K netflix work at all?
 
IIRC UHD bluray requires HDMI 2.0a

As for streaming/playing the content of one, I'm not so sure. It probably depends a lot on the scaler.
 
I have no idea why you are bumping this. The UHD bluray market is in its infancy so you can easily research what the technology can do at this time.

If it is possible, it will be the player that does the downscaling and you theoretically wouldn't need a hdmi 2.0 cable.
Vice versa makes no sense. Why would a TV be ableto take a 4k signal and downscale it.

If your intention is to rip them to a htpc, why bother just get an digital copy. Netflix would have to offer an app that downscales on the fly, probably crippling your TV.

The main question is why do you want to do this? I suspect it will not have the same impact as nvidia dsr if that's your thinking
 
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'What about if I backed up the 4k discs to my HTPC' they havent released a uhd br player yet as far as I know, but you would need one to go into your pc.'

Converting it down to 1080 will cripple all the visual goodies that uhd is meant to supply.

But at the end of the day if you can afford a uhd player and the disks, buy a 4k tv.

Found this:
At the same time, the industry has acknowledged the shifts in viewer habits with an Ultra Blu-ray feature called "copy and export." As its name suggests, copy and export lets you make a bit-for-bit copy of an Ultra HD film or program and store it on an authorized hard drive. That means you can probably expect to see Ultra HD Blu-ray players with 1TB or more hard drives.

Using the export feature, you'll be able to transfer a file—presumably a lower-quality version of the content—to authorized mobile devices. But you can't transfer it directly on your own to that device; it will have to go through a third-party service such as Vidity or UltraViolet. Both the movie studio and the player will have to implement this feature for it to work.

And
Earlier this week, Panasonic announced it would ship its first UHD player, the $3,000-plus UBZ1, to stores in Japan in November. There are no firm plans for a U.S. launch. Samsung previously reported that its first UHD Blu-ray player won't arrive until 2016.
 
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Why on Earth would anyone want to buy 4K Blu-ray's with the intention of playing them downscaled at 1080P?

Only way that makes any sense, is so a collection of 4K Blu-ray's can be collected until a 4K display and 4K BD player can be purchased. If that's the intention, rip them and convert them to 1080P with Handbrake. That way you still have 4K discs until you get a 4K display and player, but can watch them at 1080P in the meantime.

I'm not sure though if current BD drives will support these new 4K discs.
 
I suspect most will do this without it being a particularly well advertised feature. Just like existing 1080p bluray drives will downscale to 720p if you only have a 720 TV.
 
You wont get a blu ray drive that will support 4k discs. The best you can hope for is what they are doing with blu ray/dvd which is " double play" , which gives you 2 discs of the film.

A proper 4k disc player WILL however also play standard blu ray discs , and will downscale a 4k movie disc to 1080p. But that wont be cheap
 
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