BBC iPlayer 4k support in time for the World cup?

[ajwool]

So, will we finally get Bbc iPlayer support in time for the World Cup? Announcement coming imminently:

https://www.whathifi.com/news/bbc-4k-hdr-world-cup-confirmation-week-away

[bemaniac84]

Holy moly. My new £670 Philips Hdr1000 monitor has arrived I think I'm the
first in the UK with one. Compared to the XD8599 the BBC footage is bright
and vibrant and amazing. The BBC are pumping out really bright footage you
just need the right hardware to display it! The £1500 Sony has been binned
off to the spare room because Sony suck. Sony don't suck at exclusive games
though and Uncharted 4 pops in HDR like crazy on this Philips panel with
highs of 1300nits brightness. Or 1300cd/m2 if you are allergic to nits.
Basically if you want good world Cup footage dump your Sony!

[Fruitcake3]

Thankyou Roku.Watching the World Cup in UHD as we speak on my Sony A1.

Sent from my iPad

[bemaniac84]

Well on the A1 I would still bow to the technical prowess of oled. I may
have many back-lit zones and no bleed or dirty screen effect but the second
they can pump upto 1200cd/m2 into oleds and the little things don't die
after 5 years I'm onboard.

[jan.hansen957]

Bright screens is what we want, but I hope you don't watch the World Cup on a 43 inch monitor lol. Unless you sit 2 feet away you won't be able to see whether it is 1080p or 4k. 43 is so small that I would throw it out with the trash if I was sitting more than 3-4 feet away.

Are you a Philips insider??

[bemaniac84]

A more than fair assumption lol. I have stuff from all different companies.
I'm only 2.5 feet from the desktop monitor. I don't really have a living
room so to speak. The bedroom TV is a Samsung q9fam which is meant to be
2000cd/m2 but it too is dull on the HLG stuff. Only the monitor displays it
well I find. Obviously if I had a larger area I'd use a TV.

[rgledhill]

What, he's an insider for "only" having a 43" display?  What a ridiculous thing to say.  Not everyone has huge sitting rooms, or a wife who accepts or wants a 55+" display.  If you can't tell the difference between Full HD and 4k on a 43" then that's your problem - I could clearly see the difference.

The only reason I have a 50" TV is because Sony didn't put the better panels and processing in a 43" which was the best size for our room.

[jan.hansen957]

https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/4k-ultra-hd-uhd-vs-1080p-full-hd-tvs-and-upscaling-compared

4k also comes with higher bitrate. If your 10 ft away you wont notice the bump in resolution

Sent from my iPhone

[rgledhill]

This is a myth which I busted myself.  I sat at home with our (previous) 43" TV and got my wife to show various videos from YouTube in HD and 4k resolution.  Sitting around 10 feet away I could consistently tell the difference (more than 90% correct).

It's very subjective, in the same way that many people don't notice dropped/repeated frames, but for others it makes the picture unwatchable.  My wife can hardly tell the difference between a decent SD signal and 4k, even on our 50" TV from 8 feet away.  People's abilities and perceptions differ and so this supposed "hard and fast" rule is just a guideline and shouldn't be touted as fact.

[ScrattyTV]

I really don't believe that you can't see the difference from more than 10 feet away despite the article. I sit around 10-12 feet from my 55" TV and I can clearly see the difference with the World Cup coverage on iplayer. 

[stormyuk]

I don't even have 20:20 vision and my screen is only 49". I can tell a massive difference between 1080p content and 2160p content.