ISP's and routers can easily deliver the required bandwidth and handle the speed.
Premium cable packages offer Football/Soccer and F1 in 4k. HFC connections can easily handle 100mb/s.
Youtube and all the other media providers like Prime etc have 4k content. Even off other paid IPTV services you can stream 4k and 7.1 audio bluray rips on a 50-100mb/s FTTC connection, ethernet preferred over wifi to avoid buffering.
Are you still on dial up with windows 98 bro?
Yes I am obviously fully aware of 4K on youtube etc etc, I use it myself but it'is NOT reliable. (See reasons further below).
nevertheless, very few CONSUMERS have 4K Tv's, GLOBALLY. Yes they're cheap in USA, but they're not cheap in the country i am currently in. If you ain't got a 4K TV or a 4K computer monitor there is no point having a 4K signal.
Having said that, the higher bitrate does show fewer compression artefacts on my 1080p TV. Downrezzing a 4K signal to 1080p will show some image benefits, this is has been well known in videography for a long-time.
"Premium cable packages offer Football/Soccer and F1 in 4k"
Yes jolly good and people are already PISSED OFF paying the ludicrous fees for a 1080p image, what are UFC gonna charge for a 4K signal ? US$120? US$130? It is self-defeating, because they'll spend the money on it and barely anyone will choose that option. Net financial loss for Zuffa LLC. Good work! (not).
Again, most countries and most consumers do NOT have infrastructure / cabling / fiber-optics or FAST-enough modems/routers to handle RELIABLY 4K signal. oh and what happens when your wife / sister / kids / whoever else in the house hops on your wifi and takes half the bandwidth? Did you think about that? No you fucking didnt.
"HFC connections can easily handle 100mb/s."
Remember USA is just 4.2% of global population bro. in other words 96% (to 1 d.p.) of people don't live in USA, and a high percentage of those don't have hi-end infrastructure and endless fiber-optic cables etc etc, Not every country /region / city has advanced high-bandwidth broadband cabling etc. I knopw you're prob American (its the arrogance) and like to think the entire world is like USA with equivalent cash-rich economy to throw on premium hi-end networking for their entire beloved population but....they don't.
Ethernet thing -- absolutely you'd want an ethernet cable, wifi is struggling to cope with these bitrates. Again, I have a nice fast net connection, about 80Mbps often, and usually it's 50Mbps and i STILL cannot reliably stream a 4K youtube video. It buffers. Connection ios shared with a couple of other people, but that is *normal* for most households and is a practical demonstration that 4K signals will buffer due to outside factors such as ISP bandwidth variability / oher end-users taking bandwidth in same house / building, etc.etc.
Again, you're being a bit of a smart-ass here using 1st world countries (USA / Canada / some Euro countries) as the "SURELY THE WHOLE WORLD IS LIKE THIS WITH THEIR NETORK INFRASTRUCTURE in 2023??!!?!?"
NO THEY ARE NOT!
and yes USA/Can are important markets but tiny fraction of the global population (4.6% the 2 countries combined).
Finally yes I started off on 56k dialup in the 1990s. Dell 450 desktop in 1998 at home and Compaq desktops (386/20e and 386/33 etc) gear at work since the late 1980s with HP Laserjet II for hard-copy stuff. Just saying that I've been around I.T. infrastructure for a long-ass time. First computer at home in 1982.
Halcyon days, in some ways.
