Ok, so I am pretty down with the whole video content production thing, and my sideline business Pyro Productions is doing pretty well.

I've started shooting some content in 4k, mainly because in the particular area I am working in being able to shoot a bit wider and then crop in is a very nice to have!

So will all this 4k content floating around my system I thought I would try and output some to play on a 4k TV. This is where it gets interesting. I don't have a 4K capable TV at the moment, so I can't play around. So I guess my question is if you don't have a 4K TV that is abel to playback content form it's USB port, what options are there for the average Joe out there? I've seen a very expensive box from Sony, and something from Red. The Nvidia Shield seems to support streaming 4K but I can't find out if it will playback local content.

Anyone have experience with this stuff?

Cheers

Cris

A bunch of Bluray players can do 4k output for Netflix so can probably do the playback. Whether they can playback from a disc is another question.
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/13444

VLC supports 4k.

Am I missing something? You're asking how to playback 4K content?

I'd be surprised if a 4K TV couldn't playback from USB. It's the main way they demo them.

So all 4k TV's can playback 4k content from USB ???

I have no idea, which is why I ask the question...

Cheers

Cris

I can't say that all TVs can playback 4k. Of course there's various encoding methods, containers etc. High bitrates might case problems too. Slow USB drives could even be a weak point.

As I said, I would *expect* any 4k TV with a USB port to be able to playback from a USB drive.

You'll probably find it difficult to get a set combination of codecs, bitrates etc that work on all of them due to the nature of how standard standards end up being.