There’s plenty of life left in “Full HD.”
After all, it’s still just over two million pixels of detail!
Unless you put a 1080p and 4K UHD display side-by-side, you’re unlikely to perceive 1080p as low-res.
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Specifically, it depends onhow far you sit from the displayandthe size of the display.
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Image quality isn’t just a function of resolution, after all.
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Not to mention that 4K content still looks fantastic in 1080p.
Even 4KBlu-ray discsonly represent a small fraction of what’s available on standard Blu-ray and DVD.
However, increasing the bitrate also increases the size of the video file.
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Other services, such asApple TV+offer significantly higher bitrates, but nowhere near the gold standard of Blu-ray discs.
Considering that, as mentioned above.
The higher resolution results in higher-quality elements that are rendered at a percentage of the output resolution.
This often includes reflections and shadows.
This results in less “shimmering” in the picture.
