When will we get UFC in 4K???

[GrantB13]

I'm with ya. Some of the ultra HD stuff has a weird uncanny valley effect for me.

Things become TOO clear. They make real life look fake.

 

[TR1]

Am I the only one who doesn't need to see every extra pixel of bloody and messed up fighters?

Shit even 1080p is borderline disgusting at times.

 

[TR1]

They use some 8K camera when they do the fighter introductions at the Apex and it looks so fucking weird.

Like to the point my eyes are telling me the picture isn't real.

That and motion interpolation make things look weird and soap opera esque.

 

[Clark Rogers]

Things become TOO clear. They make real life look fake.

Exactly. It's like they're more HD than our eyes perceive in person, making it seem abnormal, idk.

Some of em feel more like the next iteration of Final Fantasy graphics than a real scene lol.

 

[davidlemonparty]

They don't film it in 1080p lol.
Also 99% of paying ppv customers have absolute access to 4k displays and capable network infrastructure.
@Doughie99 should delete that post which was, to put it kindly, nonsensical.
the. Only reason we don't get 4k streams is the same all UFC decisions... greed

 

[bubbleboyjones]

$45 SD $55 HD when I started watching. I remember the realization when we got an HD TV and I ordered the SD to save money and it looked like shiiiit.

The UFC didn't even have the HD option until I believe it was the same card as CroCop's debut in early 2007 and even then it was only DirectTV. Those days were awful because everyone converted over to 16:9 HD TVs but all the UFCs were fucked up in that shitty SD signal for years after HD was standard. You couldn't even get UFC HD for all carriers until around somewhere after 2009. Even carriers like Comcast didn't have HD options during UFC 100. And I recall Hooters even having directtv were too cheap to show it back then in HD.

4K isn't a big deal. Don't get me wrong I'm all for seeing higher quality but the fights look great today.

 

[GrantB13]

The UFC didn't even have the HD option until I believe it was the same card as CroCop's debut in early 2007 and even then it was only DirectTV. Those days were awful because everyone converted over to 16:9 HD TVs but all the UFCs were fucked up in that shitty SD signal for years after HD was standard. You couldn't even get UFC HD for all carriers until around somewhere after 2009. Even carriers like Comcast didn't have HD options during UFC 100. And I recall Hooters even having directtv were too cheap to show it back then in HD.

4K isn't a big deal. Don't get me wrong I'm all for seeing higher quality but the fights look great today.

I have 1440p monitors but not a 4K TV. I'd have to see the difference but I don't know what I'm missing so I'm fine, personally.

 

[Istryker]

You know what ...


Why don't we get fights in 4K?

 

[Spinkick KO]

They don't film it in 1080p lol.
Also 99% of paying ppv customers have absolute access to 4k displays and capable network infrastructure.
@Doughie99 should delete that post which was, to put it kindly, nonsensical.
the. Only reason we don't get 4k streams is the same all UFC decisions... greed

I have like 30+ years experience in the the industry relating to cabling for live events, isp/data centre networking and tier 1 telco engineering. It's one of the things I've taught in the past and now part of my work is teaching telco workers whs-ohsa/occupational first aid for working at heights and underground. In all the history of all "getting technical here" posts I've seen on the internet, I've never been sober and laughed so uncontrollably. Normally I like to be an asshole as much as possible to morons giving bad tech advice, but it would have been like doing sambo on a guinea pig.

When Sean Strickland retires from fighting he'll be able to get a trade, the average sherdog poster will still be posting about their infinite wisdoms and yelling at mom for moar tendies. Fatherless bastards.