75" screen for large conference room - worth going 4K?

[Koofler]

Hi all,

I'm looking to put a new screen into a large conference room, which will be hung about 2m from the front of our conference table. It'll mainly be used for client presentations using a Barco Clickshare wireless presentation system - specs here http://goo.gl/jUYyDK

I've no idea whether going 4k is a good idea or not. Looking at some reviews, the say that this viewing angle isn't great, but is that 4k or just generally LED screens still.

Any recommendations appreciated.

[Ekona]

For conference stuff? I wouldn't bother, personally.

I bought a regular 1080p 75" TV in Jan, and at the time the same size TV in 4K was about 3x more expensive. As I have my doubts over 4K as a medium going forward, I saved the cash, If you're not even using it for watching media on, I definitely wouldn't spend the extra, even if budget didn't matter.

[Koofler]

Ekona said:

For conference stuff? I wouldn't bother, personally.

I bought a regular 1080p 75" TV in Jan, and at the time the same size TV in 4K was about 3x more expensive. As I have my doubts over 4K as a medium going forward, I saved the cash, If you're not even using it for watching media on, I definitely wouldn't spend the extra, even if budget didn't matter.

Thanks Ekona. I'm kinda minded this way already. 4k looks great in 'demo mode' but I'm struggling to see an upside, even though budget isn't an issue. As long as the presentations look ok, which I'm sure 1080p will be, I'll see what other toys I can get.....

Thanks again!

[Power Junkie]

I have used the 75" 4k Sony in our boardroom and it is great and also the price is competitive. It depends on what your client is displaying, if it's just powerpoint's etc then you wouldn't need 4k but the cost of the Sony's makes it a good option.

[varsas]

The 'viewing angle' thing is LED (actually LED lit LCD) screens in general, and nothing to do with 4k vs 1080p. For perfect viewing angles I suppose you'd get a projector, but then you have other problems like poor contrast and brightness. I guess an OLED screen would be perfect but I'm not sure they do them in 75inch size...

[TheRainMaker]

Barco ClickShare outputs 1920x1200, so no need for 4K

Spend the extra money on a good screen, something like the Panasonic TH-70LF50

http://business.panasonic.co.uk/visual-system/prod...

[Koofler]

Well, it turns out that the maximum dimension that I have to have to play with only really allows for a choice of about 3 models - two from Samsung and one from Sony. I'm not a huge Sony fan so it'll probably be Samsung. And all the offerings are 4k anyway...........

Ah well. Thanks for all your responses though.

[V8A*ndy]

Just be mindful that you will be displaying stuff outside the native resolution and some displays handle this a lot better than others.

I'd be wanting to see what your running on the TV first and making comparisons.