Resolutions and Monitors

[K0MP4CT]

Just a general question for a curious PC user  my monitor is a 1080p monitor. I'm curious, if I watched a video in 4K, would it only display 1080p or would there be some benefits to watching at 4K on this monitor?

[Guest]

It would be displayed in 1080, at higher bitrate, or a over sized video.

[K0MP4CT]

Just now, Mycrafter5 said:

It would be displayed in 1080, at higher bitrate, or a over sized video.

Can you elaborate? What does that mean? Will I see any noticeable difference?

[NeoFrux]

Just now, K0MP4CT said:

Can you elaborate? What does that mean? Will I see any noticeable difference?

If you watch a 4K video at 1080p, the benefits you'll notice are the following:

• Fewer compression artifacts due to proportionally higher bitrate than 1080p
• Very slightly better fine detail (less shimmering on sharp edges / etc) due to downsampling and the filtering involved

Beyond that... Nothing much, really.

[eLucid]

It's common sense, is it not? There would be no benefit from this. It'll just get scaled down to your native res. 

[Glenwing]

4 minutes ago, K0MP4CT said:

Can you elaborate? What does that mean? Will I see any noticeable difference?

 

 

[K0MP4CT]

10 hours ago, Runefox said:

If you watch a 4K video at 1080p, the benefits you'll notice are the following:

• Fewer compression artifacts due to proportionally higher bitrate than 1080p
• Very slightly better fine detail (less shimmering on sharp edges / etc) due to downsampling and the filtering involved

Beyond that... Nothing much, really.

That's all I wanted to know, thank you

 

10 hours ago, eLucid said:

It's common sense, is it not? There would be no benefit from this. It'll just get scaled down to your native res. 

If it were common sense, there wouldn't be any need for there to be videos explaining it.

[eLucid]

5 hours ago, K0MP4CT said:

That's all I wanted to know, thank you

 

If it were common sense, there wouldn't be any need for there to be videos explaining it.

Well, there's lots of people that lack it, you seem to be one of them.

[K0MP4CT]

6 minutes ago, eLucid said:

Well, there's lots of people that lack it, you seem to be one of them.

Well that was rude and unnecessary. I assure you, it's not a common sense question. If you wish to be ignorant and arrogant online, be my guest, however, I really don't want to bother with people like that