Hi there, would you say the shield is worthwhile when one wants to watch FHD sport (e.g.) Football, Cricket, F1 on a 4K TV? To be honest the TV is too big for the room, very clever of me. It's perfectly fine for 4K content but that isn't available for most sport. I see pixels on Sky Sports FHD channels (the quality is noticeable down from other channels like Now Sports, TNT Sports etc. I would get the shield if it could easy the pain of those pixels on this new TV I stupidly bought.
Any wisdom on this topic would be greatly appreciated.
That’s is a problem people don’t realise that the bigger the screen the poorer lower quality content may look depending on the source.
Especially if you are sat to close as well as you will see the poorer resolution image even more. Which you have found out the hard way, unfortunately.
This needs to be considered if you are going to be using it for daily TV lower bitrate iptv viewing, but if you’re going to be watching a lot of 4K HDR or DV content then it will look great. Also an authorised service should look good as well with lower resolution.
Also the majority of tv channels we view are 1080p but modern TVs are upscaling the image to 4k some better than others depending on the brand.
Also the quality of the source material has to be taken into account.
But it can’t upscale it and make it look like a native 4K picture. Bitrate plays a factor as well, the higher the better the image will be upscaled and the less compression is used the better also.
What’s it like for viewing Freeview 1080p SDR content?
Are the FHD channels that look poor actually 1080p 50hz?
What brand, model and size is your tv and how far away from the screen are you?
It’s upscaling lower quality content already.
But the source material is key as to how well it will upscale the image.
The Shield only uses Ai upscaling on content below 30hz 30fps.
Great for 1080p 30fps and below content.
So will not work on sport channels at 50hz 60hz.
Which ideally you should be watching for sport.
The shield will only use the default enhance feature.
Which doesn’t work as well as the Ai upscaling and probably won’t do as good a job as decent modern TV.
The only way you are really going to know is by purchasing one.
I suppose you could buy one on Amazon and try it out and then return it with their very good returns policy.
If it doesn’t give you the results you were after.