How is consumer adoption of 4k compared to 1080p compared to this time last gen?

I feel people will prefer 4k tvs when Tvs are the main tv made and 1080p are the inexpensive budget models, with 720p panels not even made anymore. Mass public don’t actually care if it’s 4K, but if it’s the only option or the main option it will sell.

Since I think this probably needs to be clarified: What exactly was “this time last-gen”? PS3/Wii came out in 2006, so I presume early-mid 2011?

I feel people will adopt 4k tvs when Tvs are the main tv set fabricated and 1080p are the cheap budget models, with 720p panels not even made anymore. Mass public don’t really care if it’southward 4K, only if it’due south the simply option or the principal option it will sell.

So, from the past iii years?
You can’t get a good 1080p set anymore, and to exist honest I’m glad. In larger sizes the pixel door effect is massive.

Information technology’ll have time for people to get up to steam, but the XOX and Pro have been selling very well.

Side by side generation consoles will exist the bigger “push” for their owners to purchase a 4K TV, in my opinion.

I have a 40″ 4K Samsung TV in my office that up until well-nigh a yr ago was rated as having the lowest input lag of whatsoever 4K telly; since it’s used for gaming 99.nine% of the time, that was the i to become.

The problem I nonetheless have updating my other televisions is that – if I’m going to upgrade, I
definitely
want to go OLED. And OLED is still besides pricey for a secondary Television in the family room, and notwithstanding besides small for the theater room (the 77″ – the largest size – is $10K+). That, and I nonetheless think there’south room for big improvement on the input lag. I hate that I’m still using 1080p for TV, movies, and even games when my friends come up over. But I’d like to experience confident my next big TV purchases volition still feel peachy ~5 years downwardly the road.

I merely just now got a 1080p monitor. Lol. 4K is too much for my claret. When I have to replace something I imagine it’ll exist the but option at that point though. So I requite myself 5 years before something stops working and needs replaced.

But 4K consoles have only been out for 17 months (Pro) and five months (X).

I don’t feel like anyone really cares about 4K.

I bought a fifty inch Sony Bravia similar 2 years ago so I probably won’t upgrade anytime before long.

it’s rendering that needs to catch up, as a gtx 1080 ti is basically what y’all need to compete

and a damn big tv

Faster. At least on the TV side.

I accept 3 720p displays, and three 1080p displays in the firm I don’t run across upgrading to 4k whatsoever time soon like legit not till 2025 we still have SD cablevision telly service since Hd content is over the cyberspace.

Im not interested in 4K yet and I say this equally someone who had a 1080p television in 2006.

I feel people volition adopt 4k tvs when Tvs are the primary television receiver made and 1080p are the inexpensive budget models, with 720p panels not fifty-fifty made anymore. Mass public don’t actually intendance if it’southward 4K, but if it’southward the merely option or the main choice it volition sell.

They’re already upkeep and chief TVs. When you lot go to Walmart yous literally have to go to the discount corner to discover 1080p TVs.

I simply know one person in existent life that has 4k, and simply one of my cyberspace friends has i, too. I don’t know anyone outside of Era that has either a Pro or a X1X.

4k is nonetheless very expensive hither (to me) and I’m in no bustle to become to it. My pc monitor is non fifty-fifty 1080, only my showtime (and only) hdtv is. I promise it keeps working for many more than years.

Too, until I’thousand not really really certain on future proof HDR standards (for futurity consoles and digital content) I’k not fifty-fifty bothering investigating a new 4k/hdr fix.

Faster. At to the lowest degree on the TV side.

Is this truthful?

Information technology feels to me like adoption of 4K is more than to do with having a broken / old 1080p TV than actually gravitating towards 4K. – Gamers with Pro/Ten being the exception.

Is this true?

It feels to me like adoption of 4K is more than to practise with having a cleaved / former 1080p Tv than really gravitating towards 4K. – Gamers with Pro/X being the exception.

I think people only don’t remember how long ago 1080 happend. And the beginning years were very slow and many withal went either fat TVs or 720p.
4k is basically just starting yr 3 now.

To produce college resolution 4k panels is easier and cheaper than alter from one engineering science to another. The transition is just smother. For product, retail and too consumers. Makes sense…

I call back information technology’s the opposite tbh. Last gen pretty much everyone had a 1080p Television receiver past halfway through the gen. This gen I don’t think most people will have 4k fifty-fifty by the end of the gen.

And the importance of the Pro and X is overstated hither. I agree with the above affiche who said that adjacent-gen volition be the real examination of 4k adoption.

No one in my family is currently rocking a 4K display whereas we were fairly early adapters of 1080p screens. I remember people were quicker to adapt to 720P and 1080P displays equally it marked an era where Telly’s slimmed downwardly which may be more of a selling bespeak than pixel count. Your average consumer is likely happy with what they accept.

I don’t think that’southward a fair comparison, mainly considering PS4 and Xbox One did non launch in 2013 as 4k consoles. When nosotros bought a PS3 in 07, we bought an Hard disk drive 1080p idiot box to become along with it. How many people bought 4k sets in 2013 to play Xbox One and PS4?

Feels like it’s going at near the same speed, but people are more excited to movement to 4K. The move from 1080 to 4K has far more in common with the jump from SD to HD than it does with the bound to 1080 from 720.

Honestly, 720 to 1080 felt like a half-step, whereas 1080 to 4K feels similar a full upgrade to me.

1440p (two.5K) isn’t even mainstream notwithstanding…

I recollect people would be crazy to buy 1080 now with TCL 4k TVs being around $300. Unless of course they want cheaper.

1440p (2.5K) isn’t even mainstream notwithstanding…

1440p is a stopgap, nobody sells 1440p TVs in mainstream.

Anyone who buys a 4K TV today probably well above ii/3rds are going to be 4K in well-nigh places.

I imagine information technology’southward gaining traction fast. Exercise manufacturers even really make 1080p TVs anymore? Almost every single 1 at Best Buys and other stores are 4K and they’re much, much cheaper than they used to be.

I take a 4K Samsung KS8000 and honey it, but I hardly know anyone else with a 4K TV right now. However, at present that 4K TVs are pretty much the just ones you tin become at stores, I think they’ll start picking up in adoption rates. Like xxracerxx said above, I think next gen will be a good point in time where most ppl should take ane, or exist getting i very soon.

I recall among all my friends and family there is a single 4k tv. And it’s non used a ton.

I think we’re farther away from 4k adoption than people recall. 1080p (even 720p) is skillful enough for most people.

Personally speaking, I’m waiting for a overnice 4k OLED monitor. That’s still years away if information technology e’er happens.

We’re in kind of a weird infinite correct now where 4Ks are at consumer-friendly prices only the content still isn’t there. X1X is helping, only we are still short of many important 4K catalogue films/TV shows. I’grand starting to suspect network TV may skip the 4K upgrade altogether, as I accept heard nothing about upping that standard.

Nonetheless, I got a 4K because it’s not bad for gaming and 1080p content still looks “OK” while I expect for the content to grab upward.

Most of my friends including myself do non have 4K TVs. More than have nicer monitors simply that’s ordinarily justified in the creative work they practise. I take a pretty old Samsung plasma and I just can’t justify an upgrade unless the TV dies or I move.

4K hit when many people had just upgraded to 1080p and TVs are pretty well made , hard to justify upgrading when they work fine and you need to salvage money.

Don’t know a single person with a 4K Tv set, including my enthusiast friends.

i was thinking of getting a 4K tv only decided to wait. in that location is no style to justify it correct now. my PS4 can’t practise 4K and i’m not spending hundreds on a new Television receiver
and
spending £250-450 on a PS4 Pro/XB1X
and
upgrading my blu rays to 4K. if i bought a 4K tv set i’d still be playing games, watching netflix/blu rays at 1080p. it’southward just waay as well much money. my plan is to endeavor ditch physical media completely (getting there), expect for next gen consoles to be announced, purchase a 4K telly, await for consoles to come out and purchase one. that fashion i’m non dropping all my money at one time on a new Tv/panel. also for whatever it’south worth nobody i know has a 4K tv.

on the PC/steam side of things according to steam hardware stats:

user meridian over the terminal 48 hrs is 15,521,989.

72.01% (-four.46% / 11,177,384 users) are using a 1080p screen
xiii.92% (2,160,660 users) are using other resolution screens
9.86% (+1.66% / ane,530,468 users) are using a 768p screen
3.l% (+0.10% / 543,269 users) are using a 1440p screen
0.71% (+0.22% / 110,206 users) are using a 2160p screen

4K is definitely non mainstream and probably won’t selection up for another couple years.

I did not necessarily care about 4k myself, just when I went to buy TVs 4k was pretty inexpensive, and then I said why not. I recollect information technology is more than adopted than nosotros remember. Most people I know have i too, heck even my parents. They went to buy a normal TV, don’t know annihilation nigh 4k but information technology seems the salesman at that place sold them skilful

Both my 4k 55″ TVs were around $600-700

Granted one was on blackness Friday

people swtiched to 1080p because it was more than than resolution. old tvs just used likewise much power and had shit color. and produced heat

jump from 1080 to 4k is but just resolution. which is worthless for nearly people.

I personally don’t see enough deviation from 1080p to 4k to consider an upgrade. Maybe for a projector, I could consider it.

4K is definitely picking up steam, simply it isn’t for whatsoever sort of interesting reason. 1080p TVs are getting fabricated less and less, while 4K sets are getting cheaper and cheaper. This is a space where y’all can now get a pretty decent TCL 4K HDR screen for as cheap as $300. I call up the key difference here betwixt SD to Hd is that at that place does not, at least to me, seem to be great fervor to switch. HDR might actually be the bigger driving factor in the desire to switch (speaking only for myself, of course). Nonetheless, if anyone is in the market for a TV today and isn’t extremely budget witting, at that place’s really no reason to bother getting a 1080p or lower screen anymore.

people swtiched to 1080p because it was more than than resolution. erstwhile tvs just used too much power and had shit color. and produced heat

jump from 1080 to 4k is simply just resolution. which is worthless for virtually people.

besides you’re non gonna observe much a difference unless you lot sit closer or buy a larger screen. i have a 42″ 1080p and was looking to get a 55″ 4K so straight away information technology’south gonna be more expensive. a 42″ 1080p goggle box has a pixel density of 52.45. to go that same density at 4K y’all would demand an 84″ screen!

I personally don’t encounter enough deviation from 1080p to 4k to consider an upgrade. Maybe for a projector, I could consider information technology.

I thought the same thing until…and this is going to audio actually silly, merely until I watched Netflix on my dad’s 4k TV. That’s when I went “…Huh. Okay, this actually really does look a lot amend.”

as well you’re not gonna notice much a difference unless you sit closer or buy a larger screen. i have a 42″ 1080p and was looking to get a 55″ 4K and so straight away information technology’southward gonna exist more expensive. a 42″ 1080p tv has a pixel density of 52.45. to get that same density at 4K you lot would need an 84″ screen!

yes. not to mention a lot of content is not available in 4k. about cable tv isn’t fifty-fifty 1080p. its upscaled or 720p.

or even streaming channels. the internet and television receiver needs to exist ameliorate to justify well-nigh people switching. they are cheap I tin go buy one right now. in fact it costs me more to buy both my 1080p tvs in 2011 and 2015 than it costs a really good 4k tv at present. only I don’t need information technology. i will become one when this tv dies.

i actually merely saw 4K for the first time the other mean solar day while looking at tvs in a store. it was a noticeable deviation just i was standing correct in front of it. i guess it’d be nice only don’t remember it’s worth the price. prices demand to come down quite a chip. the TV i was looking at was £730 which is £400 more i’ve ever paid for a TV.

Personally I expect to pass on 4k. I volition look for an comeback across just resolution.

Well, almost anybody in my family unit has a 4K TV. And that’due south from the hardcore to the casual. Pretty much everything in my Bestbuy and Walmart are 4K TVs and they being and so inexpensive now (tcl) there’s just no reason for anyone to exit of their way to non get one.

As long as many cable channels are still broadcasting in 720p I don’t see the need to upgrade my 1080p set up to a 4k one. I scout a whole hell of a lot more TV than i play games.

I notwithstanding have my 1080p telly and information technology nonetheless looks amazing. god of state of war looks then skillful i cant imagine it looking better.

Give it some other few years. Some/virtually people don’t pick up new TVs that often, I take a 144hz monitor but I don’t take a 4k tv yet. Will probably exist another few years until I get one.

I still have my 1080p tv and it withal looks amazing. god of war looks so skilful i cant imagine it looking better.

I felt the same way nearly some games(Wolfenstein two was one) on X1 until I saw them running on my roommates X1X on their 4K TV. Information technology gets fifty-fifty ameliorate.

I know a few with 4K TVs and plan to go i myself past the end of the year.

At that place aren’t many Full Hard disk drive TV’southward on the market anymore, particularly when the bigger and more higher terminate models give you lot no choice other than to buy a 4K TV. Full Hard disk drive pretty much stops at aomething like 49 inch and afterwards that it’due south only 4K so consumers who want a bigger TV for their living room (55 inch for example) are always willing to make the resolution spring because they have no other choice. Every Tv set we sell is basically 4K so I await the attachment charge per unit to choice up in the side by side few years seeing as they’re getting a lot cheaper besides.