[rubber_duck]

IMO watching a few sci-fi movies in 4k+ looks ridiculous - I start noticing the difference between CGI environment and actors and it kills the immersion completely, it goes from "that character is really there" to "this guy is larping in front of a green screen"

[colechristensen]

A lot of it is the lighting, I think.

Higher resolution, better color replication, and frame rate make very obvious the fact that there seems to be a magical glowing orb following around the characters right behind the camera. Immersion breaking because you can get away with it with less quality, it's more difficult to notice.

Something that I've also found more and more irritating is the foley artists doing ridiculous things for sound effects, especially in nature documentaries, but all over the place really.

[skybrian]

So, um, why do things that make games and movies look bad? I'm not sure why we need anything above HDTV for video or games.

[ayyyolo]

that's not the point - they were saying that retroactively going back and viewing old content on 4k, you can easily spot the CG/issues etc.

ex: Farscape - all the CG was rendered in low res, so even when you view a 1080p copy it looks silly. Imagine all the content that would have to be re-done and upscaled to make it watchable in 4k.

[skybrian]

It still seems like it would be better to try to reproduce the original experience by viewing it at the original resolution.

[piva00]

Good luck watching movies in NTSC or PAL, I for sure don't want to be watching movies on a 720x480 window.

[danielheath]

Are you going to keep a CRT TV running in your house to do so?

[skybrian]

No, but I wonder if there is a good way to emulate one?

[danielheath]

Most SNES emulators have a mode for this.