Cubase and 4K monitors?

JMCecil · August 4, 2013, 11:35pm

Patanjali:

JMCecil:

This isn’t 100% correct … video is typically shot or converted to 24fps which can be translated by whatever video engine the display has to a comparable refresh rate. Computers generate refresh rate based feeds which can be very irritating at lower or non-matching frequencies.

Well, what refresh rate stuff gets into the TV, what it is actually displayed at, and what it looks like are different things.

That is why a particular TV has to be seen to know whether it actually works as a monitor. At this stage, all anecdotal observations/reviews are that the Seikis appear to be a reasonable 4K monitors, as long as the vertical lock is off. The Seiki site even proffers their use as 4K monitors. They are not gloss screens either. However, the same reviewers cite that as Full HD TVs, there are much better TVs at lower prices.

Until DisplayPort connections are included, they (and any other HDMI 1.4 only TVs) are just not going to cut it for gamers, or video professionals. Mind you, Red (professional video camera makers) bought heaps of them.

If one wants to run 4K video at high refresh rates, multiple top-end video cards are required, which is why I suggested feeding video in at lower resolution into another monitor or an actual TV(with overscan off), or timecode sync to a separate video machine.

I get what you are saying, but the techy part is usually too confusing to most people who just want to use TVs as monitors but then find out it sucks for the average guy who went out and bought a low end TV and hooked it up to a low end laptop. They think HD is HD, or hell that HD is actually a high resolution for that matter. It is a good resolution for TV/Video.

However, when you start getting into pixel density and refresh rates required to support a computer experience … that’s an entirely different kettle of fish, and TVs are NOT typically set up to support that. Nor are computers/video cards necessarily set up to support going to a TV either, other than what a TV expects for video, which again, is not ideal for computer screens.