4K upscaling question

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Hi,

I have a question regarding 4K upscaling as i am not too familiar with it. The TV we got upscales to 4K and looks great. But our blu-ray player died on us the day we got the TV so were in the market for a new one.

I was told about the versions of HDMI and that i should go for HDMI 2.0 with the highest bandwidth. I got given a cable with the TV mount but to me its just a HDMI cable with no info on it.

Anyways, my question is do i buy a normal blu-ray player or buy an upscaling blu-ray player? Reason i ask is because i would have thought that an upscaling blu-ray player would push the upscaled picture rather than the TV dealing with what it receives. Also which HDMI do i need as id like to get 3 of the same type for when i put the cables in the wall.

Any help/advice much appreciated!
 
Well managed to answer my question about the 4K blu-ray player upscaling. Basically a waste of money if your TV does it

What about HDMI cables, which is the best cable to get?
 
Hdmi cables are all the same. It's a digital signal so it either works or it doesn't. Get the cheapest one you can find of the latest spec.
 
I own a Samsung 55HU8500 UHD TV. I play bluray through a normal Samsung bluray deck, the TV upscales the picture to its native resolution and bluray looks fantastic, an upscaling 4K bluray player would simply take the upscaling process from the TV, which may in fact be detrimental unless the scalers in the bluray deck are better than the TV. In my case, considering the premium quality of the TV, any bluray scaler would not match that of the TV so would be a waste of money to change.

I would simply buy a standard bluray deck at a reasonable price and wait until UHD bluray is released sometime later this year or early next.

As far as HDMI cables are concerned, simply buy one of a decent build quality, you don't need to spend £50 on an HDMI cable, any high speed HDMI cable will do the same job. Just don't buy a pound shop one that will fall apart in a week.
 
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Cheers guys, went to PC World and got a matching blu-ray player for the TV, and already the picture quality is better. Not sure if the old one (bought in 2010) was an older spec HDMI or something.

Cheers for the clarification on HDMI :-)
 
Vonhelmet said:
Hdmi cables are all the same. It's a digital signal so it either works or it doesn't. Get the cheapest one you can find of the latest spec.
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This.
I go for ones that are well made and gold plated because I'm a tart
Amazon Basics ones fulfil all those requirements for something like 3.99

Spec is important as mentioned above 1.4a should do the trick (the amazon ones above are 1.4a compliant)
 
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