Quick point of note regarding TV resolution requirements: I've got an old Samsung 45" screen that's only 1080p. Usually films and other media look great on it

Quick point of note regarding TV resolution requirements: I've got an old Samsung 45" screen that's only 1080p. Usually films and other media look great on it and I was pretty convinced I didn't need a higher resolution. Last night I tried playing back some filmed-in 4k drone footage which ended up looking impressively awful. It was sharp, but lots of pixel level brightness noise changing from frame to frame, which looked grainy and was extremely distracting. I can only assume it's the way VLC or my graphics card are downsampling to display it at 1080, but it was annoying enough I'm now thinking of a new 4k TV at some point in the future. TLDR: Your source media might make a big difference.