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It’s almost gin o’clock here on a dull Friday afternoon, so you deserve to witness something magical. Sit back, hit play, and watch as the beauty of pure-colour inks flow and swirl past in eye-bleeding 4K detail. Ahhh, that’s better. [YouTube]
Coloured Dots Have Never Been As Mesmerising as the Ones in This Video
Watch This Tornado of Fire Swirl Around the Australian Outback
Watch These Dry Ice Bubbles Turn Into Swirling Alien Planets
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Just…wow
What’s that sound? Ah yes, that’s everyone’s bandwidth screaming for mercy.
Note – unless you have a 4k screen (and if you do, lucky you and George Michael) you won’t see the difference.
My Infinity managed it fine, was surprised.
What is an ‘Infinity’?
BT Infinity. Just fibre broadband.
Very nice. You round George Michael’s house then? Apparently he has a couple of 4k tellies just so he doesn’t miss the 2016 games broadcasting in 4k in Japan.
That was my first thought – how can I see it if I don’t have a 4K screen? Looks dull on my non-4k screen
On my cinema display it looks spectacular, I guess it depends what monitor you’re stuck with. Should look good on any decent phone though, obviously not at 4K though, unless you want to kill the thing.
Sam, it will look like the optimal resolution of whatever you’re looking at. So not 4k or anywhere near it. Yes, a retina display will look great, but still no 4k. Sorry.
I’m not under any illusion that I’m watching it at 4K, what’s the problem here?
You wrote – “Be Absolutely Mesmerised By the Stunning Beauty of Swirling Colour in Glorious 4K.’
Well I’d love to be on my laptop, but alas not yet for me and plenty of others out there. I have seen 4K on a 4K screen and it is great, but this article is a bit suspect under the sale of goods act.
Hey, I never said I was providing you with a screen. It’s up to you to do that side of things. I just put the content out there. Don’t shoot the messenger. I’m sure all one of our 4K-using readers was absolutely thrilled
I phoned him up. George said ‘If I need to watch video of swirly colours in a bathtub, I’ll give Andrew a bell and he can vomit in my pool’.
I think he’s been smoking the funny fags again.
While its unlikely that you will have a 2180P HD screen, with a Dell 27″ or 30″ Ultrasharp or even Apple 27″ you can at least experience 2560×1600
Yep, looks great on the 27″ Mac Screen
Looks good on my Ultrasharp
Apart from the irritating buffering, I actually do see a difference between the 1080p version and the 4k version, and I have a 1080p display…
The difference comes from the fact that the 1080p version is compressed like crazy where the 4k version is definitely not as heavily compressed. A 1080p version at the same level of compression as the 4k version would be indistinguishable on an ordinary display, save for the fact that more than 2 seconds of it would play before buffering again.
My uni internet had zero difference loading the 4K video. My graphics card, however, was an obvious limiting factor! Definitely gonna stick to 1080p for now, especially as that’s all my TV can display
And of course I meant difficulty…
Here is how to view this at ultra ultra HD at home for free, just make a cup of tea with milk, do not stir, and it’s infinite-K!
looks great on my nexus 10
Kinda funny how people seem to think they can see more when it’s physically impossible. The psychology of the moving wins again.
I selected ‘Original’ resolution and my screen went blank and then Windows blue screened and rebooted. I take it from that my hardware is not 4K-capable.