This simply in! We have a 4K TV within the PC Perspective Offices!
While we’re nonetheless engaged on the power to check graphics card efficiency at this decision with our Frame Rating seize system, we determined to do a dwell stream earlier as we speak as we unboxed, nearly dropped after which finally configured our new 4K TV.
The TV in query? A model new SEIKI SE50UY04 50-in 3840×2160 prepared show. Haven’t heard of it? Neither have we. I picked it up over the weekend from TigerDirect for $1299, although it really a bit increased now at $1499.
The TV itself is fairly unassuming and aside from on the lookout for the 4K label on the field you would be onerous pressed to discern it from different shows. It DID include a blue, braided UHD-ready HDMI cable, so there’s that.
One level price noting is that the stand on the TV is fairly flimsy; there was positively wobble after set up and setup.
Connecting the TV to our take a look at system was fairly straightforward – solely a single HDMI cable was required and the GeForce GTX 680s in SLI we occurred to have on our take a look at mattress acknowledged it as a 3840×2160 succesful show. Keep in thoughts that you’re restricted to a refresh fee of 30 Hz although resulting from present limitations of HDMI 1.4. The desktop was clear and sharper and if you happen to like display screen actual property…this has it.
The very first thing we wished to strive was some 4K video playback and we tried YouTube movies, some downloaded clips we discovered scattered throughout the Internet and a few particular examples I had been saving. Isn’t that pet cute? It was by far the perfect image I had seen on a TV that shut up – no different method to say it.
We did have points with video playback in some instances resulting from excessive bit charges. In one case we had a YUV uncompressed file that was hitting our SSD so onerous on learn speeds that we noticed choppiness. H.265 save us!
And after all we demoed some video games as nicely – Battlefield 3, Crysis 3, Skyrim and Tomb Raider. Each was in a position to run at 3840×2160 with none complaints or INI hacks. They all seemed BEAUTIFUL when in a nonetheless place however we did discover some flickering on the TV that is perhaps the results of the 120 Hz interpolation and probably the “dynamic luminance management” characteristic that SEIKI has.
We’ll positively take a look at some extra on this within the coming days to see if we are able to discover a resolution as I do know many PC players are going to be enthusiastic about the potential for utilizing this as a gaming show! We are engaged on a group of benchmarks on among the increased finish graphics options just like the GeForce TITAN, GTX 680s, HD 7990 and HD 7970s!
If you wish to try the total expertise of our unboxing and first testing, try the total dwell stream archived under!!
