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Originally Posted by biker1
Maybe, it depends on visual acuity issues. For example, the size of the TV and how far you are sitting from it. Beyond a certain distance from the TV, you will not be able to discern the differences. However, a properly prepared, true 4K source has more information than a 1080p source upscaled to 4K. If you sat close enough to the TV you could see it. Say a couple of feet; where most of us don't sit ;-)
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Sorry, wasn’t what I was getting at.
The quality of the picture, the information it contains will be less. The 4K signal itself, the rate, the structure, what the decoder inside the television cares about, will be a 4K signal.
The broadcast will transmit a native 4K signal. The signal being received at the television will be a native 4K signal. The image may be a 1080 image which was upscaled to a 4K image but that 4K image will be carried on a native 4K signal.
And yes, most people won’t see the difference between 1080 and 4K and really won’t see the difference when the 1080 image has been enhanced/upscaled to 4K.