State Funeral - no 4k/UHD?

[Mr Pointy]

It's a bit odd that such a unique event isn't being covered in 4K & UHD. I realise that some of the sources might not be capable but the main rig should have been designed with 4K in mind & certainly today's ceremony should be in 4K. Hopefully they are at least recording 4K even if it's not being distributed.

[bigmacca1]

I am beginning to wonder whether the expense of a new 4K/UHD tv can be warranted with so little actual 4k/UHD being shown, even when i paid Sky for UHD there didn't seem to be much available, the F1 in my opinion didn't look any better and the football was marginal ?

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As a guess I’d say the cameras at Westminster Abbey and Windsor are several years old and aren’t capable of 4K. It could also be the cost to stream it compared to HD.

[StevieBee]

It would almost have certainly been captured in 4k

5 billion people watched it and I reckon half watched on an old fat-back SD telly. The number of people globally with TV that has 4K capability is still very low so there's little point using all that data when most people watching will see no benefit.

1080 (HD) is and was more than sufficient quality (IMO).

[Mr Pointy]

StevieBee said:

It would almost have certainly been captured in 4k

5 billion people watched it and I reckon half watched on an old fat-back SD telly. The number of people globally with TV that has 4K capability is still very low so there's little point using all that data when most people watching will see no benefit.

1080 (HD) is and was more than sufficient quality (IMO).

The majority of the world does indeed still watch TV in SD (it's actually more than half) but that doesn't mean that they couldn't have co-producd a 4K version alongside the HD World Feed & streamed it like they do with the other 4K programmes shown on iPlayer. It's such a once-in-several-lifetimes event that we can only trust they did attempt to capture as much source material as possible in 4K.

[anonymous-user]

StevieBee said:

1080 (HD) is and was more than sufficient quality (IMO).

Agreed, yet people are going out and buying 8K TVs and then watching SD 576 Freeview on them and wondering why it looks so rubbish.