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Preparing 4K video sources

The LG 55UB850 TV has limited video formats that it can handle. 4K(4096x...) sizes are not allowed, only UHD sizes, the 3840x... are allowed. .mkv files are also not supported. I managed to play mp4 files only. .mp4 and .mkv file names show the container file formats. A container can contain many video, audio and subtitle files of various formats. You can see the file formats supported by each type of containers from the wikipedia link at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_container_formats. That information is a life saver for me in solving the conversion of the 4K short movie, the Tears of Steel, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6MlUcmOul8. It is the fourth movie created using the 3D editing software Blender, an open source project. No wonder it is based in the Netherlands. You can download them using bittorrent more reliably. I got mine with many audio files of ac3 and flac formats. The video is in the h264 format. The subtitles in subrip formats. The original uses mkv...

Introduction to 4K video availability in Kota Kinabalu

Kota Kinabalu should be the place with the latest equipment but SenQ has branches all over Sabah so theoretically whatever is available in Kota Kinabalu should also be available in the other towns in Sabah I started searching for 4K equipment when PS4 dropped in price during the year end sales and managed to buy one with its camera for RM1675.00. It was a mistake. PS4 cannot play 4K video. Youtube in PS4 only plays in 720p. Luckily, by October 2014, PS4 can play 3D bluray, because Xbox one started supporting 3D bluray. PS3 has a much better support for media than PS4. Even worse, PS4 is incapable of playing 4K at 60 frames per second. It can only play at 30 frames per second. Shortly after I bought the PS4, the price of the LG 55 inch 3D 4K has dropped in price to RM5300, even better, if you buy through Senq, my CIMB credit card allows me to pay by installment of RM144 for 3 years, which is interest free except for an additional RM88 for the processing fee. The TV set is the 55UB...