4K Broadcast Orphans?

spinaltap

Distinguished Member
Joined
Oct 3, 2004
Messages
5,342
Reaction score
11,984
Points
3,321
Location
England
Today, Freesat sought interested parties to manufacture the next generation UHD Freesat receivers.

Currently, while today's crop of 4K televisions are capable of displaying UHD source material from a UHD player, Sky Q, or streamed from Netflix/Amazon, will the emergence of direct 4K broadcasting from Freesat or Freeview cripple (to some extent) existing 4K televisions?

Specifically, current 4K televisions have integral DVB-T2 tuners - while others have DVB-S2 tuners too. Looking into the proverbial crystal ball, will current televisions become, effectively, only '4K Broadcast Ready' in much the same way as some past televisions being 'HD Ready'.

Will we all have to ditch our supposedly 'future proof' 4K televisions for newer models with the latest 4K tuners on board?
 
Freesat will probably release 4k uhd boxes... But then they haven't got a massive choice of HD channels...
 
...currently: but you don't release UHD receivers if you don't expect there to be UHD satellite feeds.
 
Will we all have to ditch our supposedly 'future proof' 4K televisions for newer models with the latest 4K tuners on board?
Probably you'd need newer TVs if you want TVs that can receive and display broadcast specs that the current TVs can't display, like HFR UHD (eg. 100 fps), HLG. Though it's possible it could be able to show a version of it or a converter box could output it in something the TV could show.
 
I have had a 4k satellite receiver for over a year. They are available from quite a few manufacturers
 

The latest video from AVForums

Is 4K Blu-ray Worth It?
Subscribe to our YouTube channel
Back
Top Bottom