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The original was posted on /r/nfl by /u/BeingBalanced on 2025-01-31 02:52:28+00:00.
This time of year a lot of people go out and by new TVs to watch the Super Bowl. The first live sports broadcasts in 4K were in 2015 in Europe and in 2016 in America. Almost 10 years later you can’t even watch the Super Bowl in 4K. It has to be recorded in 1080P due to lack of infrastructure then upscaled which your TV does this anyway. I can’t imagine all the naive consumers that actually think they are watching a native 4K resolution broadcast. And to think TV Manufacturers are touting 8K as a big selling point. What a complete joke. Granted the vast majority of people can’t tell a difference if you didn’t tell them. Only if you showed them an A/B comparison on a large TV.
"Fox’s decision to upscale 1080p HDR rather than deliver native 4K content reflects current infrastructure constraints. As Derek Prestegard highlighted, large-scale productions often rely on 3G-SDI routers, which cap workflows at 1080p60. While this limitation is rooted in legacy infrastructure, Mark Kogan pointed out that IP-based workflows like SMPTE 2110 are gaining traction and could support native 4K in the future. " (Ya at the current rate of progress the past 9 years, maybe we’ll have a man on Mars by the time that happens.)
"As Zambelli explained, “All HD video distributed to UHD TVs gets upscaled to UHD by the playback device anyway, so upscaling it at encoding time doesn’t actually provide any real value to customers. In fact, it can be counterproductive: since higher resolutions require higher bitrates to maintain the same visual quality, upscaling video prior to encoding ends up unnecessarily increasing the content distributor’s CDN costs and requiring more bandwidth for smooth playback – all while providing no improvement in quality over the original HD signal.”
Enjoy your “Fake” 4K Super Bowl.