1080p content on a 4K monitor

Taemero · July 2, 2020

I keep reading articles saying that 1080p content looks the best on native resolution monitors and the scaling doesn't work if you watch 1080p on 4k monitors, but these post are from years ago.

I understand that for gaming this will be true, but what about youtube and other streaming services like Netflix?

Will 1080p look blurry on a 4k monitor? What's the point of having a 4K monitor if you can't enjoy all your content on it in the highest quality?

Jurrunio · July 2, 2020

It's not that 4K monitors will always ruin 1080p content, it depends on the exact monitor (also size). Some do ok, others not so much.

Thing with video broadcasting is that their video frames have blur in them already (due to motion), so blur caused by mismatched resolution isnt as prominent as gaming with motion blur disabled.

4 minutes ago, Taemero said:

What's the point of having a 4K monitor if you can't enjoy all your content on it in the highest quality?

If all your content is 1080p at best, then there's no point.

Origami Cactus · July 2, 2020

Pretty much almost all AMD graphics cards have integer scaling, and from my experience it works perfectly, 1080p goes into 4k exactly 4 times, so it is nice and sharp.

So if you have amd card just enable integer scaling in settings.

But in media it is absolutely no issue imo, it is far more noticable in gaming.

CTR640 · July 2, 2020

I once had a 21.5" monitor with 2160p resolution but I had no issue with that. Games looks so much better, wether on 1080p or 1440p and 1080p movies are no issue. But it had issues with scaling in desktop and maybe because I use Windows 7 but that's the only one issue I had.