Tv advice!?

[Grieve]

I'd be a little dubious about this jump.

Even standard to HD is too much for a lot of TV. A lot of shows that looked perfectly find in SD look cheesy in HD. Like the quality of the makeup, lighting and props was good enough for SD but HD just brought out the flaws.

HD is great for high-budget stuff, especially CGI, but a lot of stuff looks worse in HD.

I imagine UltraHD will be the same thing, but the percentages of shows that actually look good will be even more limited.

It's double 1080p (or 4X total), so the upscaling should be more straightforward than for SD shows to HD. I mean VHS is what, 333x480? That's a huge jump to 1920x1080. No wonder old shows look crap. A HD show should still look good in QHD, just not as good as a native 4K movie or show.

On the bright side, TVs will finally have higher resolution than computer monitors. (HD monitors are just slightly less than my favorite computer monitor resolution -- 1920x1200. 1920x1080 is the common one these days.)

Looks like that will be jumping up soon. Apple's next line of Macs and Macbooks appears likely to be retina (2,880 by 1,800 for a 15.4" MacBook Pro, and potentially a monster 5120x2880 for a 27" iMac), which will likely drive the same thing across the Windows PC industry as well.