Wait, what? - No native 4k playback on 6s?

[dugbug]

this has got to be the dumbest thread I have seen this year. And I'm including the "touch id is a gimmick"

OF COURSE YOU CAN WATCH YOUR DAMN 4K VIDEOS. Press 'play'.

 

[D.T.]

Anyone know what happens if you try to Airplay a 4k video to the Apple TV? Will it just down-res it, or will it give you an error?

I would imagine it would work just fine. You could play 4k blue ray on a non-4k TV.

Though I've never seen the technical details, I assume AirPlay has some up-front negotiation to request the right stream spec, or it will simply be re-sampled at the receiving device.

What I'm curious about: will a direct device connection via the Lightning port (and L>>HDMI adapter) send a 4K video to a 4K TV ... ? Wasn't that a whole thing, that the adapter re-sampled output from the Lightning port and downsampled even 1080p? Was wondering if this was any different on the new models[?]

 

[protobiont]

Things to research OP:

How to do research

Critical failure... does not compute...

 

[Eau Rouge]

this has got to be the dumbest thread I have seen this year. And I'm including the "touch id is a gimmick"

OF COURSE YOU CAN WATCH YOUR DAMN 4K VIDEOS. Press 'play'.

It's only September.

 

[bizack]

Is there any sort of visual difference between that and a video displayed natively at 1080p? Could be just me, but everything from pictures, to video look so much more crisp on the 6 display.

Actually, what I said was partially correct. Video playback (and image rendering) is native on iOS. So videos are rendered directly to screen with no downsampling (although you're still viewing 1080p). The iPhone 6+ has a larger display and only a marginally larger pixel density, so videos and images might not appear as crisp as they do on a 6. Doesn't have anything to do with downsampling - just pixel density vs screen size.