Of course, not everything you watch on a 4K TV is made for the same resolution. Older shows and movies are usually edited in 1080p or 720p. If these programs were displayed with their original ...

Upscaling is where we take the native 1080p resolution and stretch it to 4K. This of course, looks very different to ‘Native 4K’, which would require more power as it is the native resolution.

And on top of that, there’s still hardly any 4K content available to watch, so for now, 1080p is really all the resolution you need.

You can clearly see the difference between the two and how 1080p, when stretched to a large screen size, becomes blurry. But why should you care? Why should you buy a 4K TV?

Microsoft demonstrates the massive differences between Project Scorpio's native 4K and supersampling versus Xbox One's 1080p.

The fourth-gen 1080P Apple TV is powered by Apple’s A8 processor. Bluetooth is also upgraded up in the Apple TV 4K, with Apple making the jump from Bluetooth 4.0 to Bluetooth 5.0.

Yes, it still costs hundreds more than non-4K LCD TVs, and the difference in extra detail between 4K and 1080p is still basically invisible at normal screen sizes and viewing distances.