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With prime day coming up I really want to get my hands on a new TV. Im upgrading from a 2015 32 inch 1080p Sony TV. The TV itself isnt very good and with some money I have saved up im confident I can afford to get a decent 50 inch 4k tv for my bedroom. My problem is that 4k content seems impossible to get ahold of. Ive got a pretty decent htpc that I currently use for all my media needs, mostly, Twitch, Netflix, YouTube, and occasionally I'll rent a movie from Amazon. The pc has a Core i5 6500 and 16 GBs of ddr4 (yes i know thats overkill, mistakes were made). But it seems like its impossible to play 4k blu rays, without a new kaby lake cpu, or a high end graphics card. Is there something that I'm missing that makes 4k tvs worth the investment. If not what should i do considering 1080p 50 inches are going for almost the same damn price.

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either stick with your current tv and keep saving up so you can get a nice 4k tv when there is content everywhere, or take the plunge and enjoy the upscaled 1080p until 4k becomes mainstream 

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9 minutes ago, themctipers said:

either stick with your current tv and keep saving up so you can get a nice 4k tv when there is content everywhere, or take the plunge and enjoy the upscaled 1080p until 4k becomes mainstream 

That's what people were saying when 4K was new and we're still waiting.  I think for a number of reasons it's just not going to take off... at least for quite a few more years yet.

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Actually with nVidia latest driver all you need now is a Pascal card (yes its stupid that something like my old Maxwell Titan X is so much superior than a GT 1030 but DRM's every where lol) just buy a GTX 1050 and you'll be able to watch 4k netflix now on.

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The only 4k content I use is 4k Youtube (even on a 1080p screen I use 4k youtube though, much higher bitrate served so it looks much better than 1080p YT) and the occasional game my HTPC can run at 4k (like Rocket League or any older games). If you're gonna buy a new TV anyway you might as well get 4k but if you're just getting a new TV for 4k it might not be worth it yet and you might want to wait for it to become more common. If you have a PS4 Pro or Xbox One X then it might also make it worth it but otherwise it's just not worth it yet.

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Will the 1050 work? I read somewhere that only 1060 and avove had that feature, if so would that also work if i got the 5'25 inch blu ray player?

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The 1050 will work just fine. Don't expect to game at 4k but for video playback it'll do the job.

If you get the blu-ray player make sure it's one of the few that support UHD discs.

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8 minutes ago, LyondellBasell said:

The 1050 will work just fine. Don't expect to game at 4k but for video playback it'll do the job.

If you get the blu-ray player make sure it's one of the few that support UHD discs.

Have you done it, what im reading online says you need a special version of windows insider.

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I assume you mean, have I been able to stream at 4K with a Pascal card? Yes. Netflix, Amazon, and YT.

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1 minute ago, LyondellBasell said:

I assume you mean, have I been able to stream at 4K with a Pascal card? Yes. Netflix, Amazon, and YT.

Mkay, hopefully ill find a deal that i like. Maybe ill invest in a ps4 pro too, i know the xbox 1 s is better, but ive already got ps4 games and a system.

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Ah I see what you're talking about. I hadn't read that the Pascal card needed 3GB of RAM. You're right then, the 1050 won't work, you'll need the 1050Ti

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