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Here is a 4K video sample from the galaxy note 3. Make sure to watch it in original.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=87nDlOPSPog

From what I can see, the gain in resolution cant make up for the lack of latitude.

It doesnt make much sense to watch a 4K video on a HD monitor (as almost all users have) or at least a 2K+ monitor. The image will always be scaled down showing a higher resolution than it really is.
But... the 1080p version already looked very good for a phone. I would risk saying its way sharper than DSLRs. Color rendition is good also. The lack of latitude is obvious though. But it did hold well the highlights in my opinion.

I just think we're losing it these days. We're running starving for specs and not care for the most important thing when making video: How does it look like. What emotion/sensation it gives us. When I watched Pacif Rim at theater, I couldnt help noticing the superb image quality. Very, very clean and great sharpness. They shot on raw 5K on the Red Epic and delivered the 2K final.

Few days ago, I watched Mortal Instruments City of Bones. They shot on film. Yeah, film. 35mm film, not 70mm Imax. The look was completely different. It was more organic, more dreammy and I prefere that look. It's more like fantasy or imagination or...you know, not the real thing. I once read somewhere "Video is like what you see. Film is more like what we dream". Every movie is fantasy. We are led into another world were we just let ourselves be driven by the story shown. We navigate, we dream, we experience things. Watching a movie is entertainment, is seeing a good story presented the fantastic way, the fantasy way, the imagination way, the way we dream. In documentaries you wanna see the real thing happening. No magic, no tricks.

Thats why Alexa has a softner filter on the camera. Thats why they choose the Canon C500 to shoot the new "Need For Speed" movie (Alexa was the B cam and even the gopro 4k was used). The look! Not the camera, not the specs, its the look. And I feel that way with the image of the BMCC. It just gives me the same emotion I had when I was a boy watching movies but not with that old look. Modern look but in the organic and pleasant way. I just think it could have a bit less noise, no moire and be a bit sharpen/ more resolution.

From my test of the Galaxy Note III, the 4K video frames look like the full res stills but more highly compressed. The compression is so much that it destroys the 4K detail, so you're really just shooting 1080p, albeit slightly oversampled and not undersampled like on a DSLR!

Good video for a phone but not 4K. More a marketing gimmick really.

120fps 720p on the iPhone 5S... Now that is genuinely useful!!

Samsung seem to be taking a scatterdash approach to the application of their technology. They have amazing technology but the products are meh. Curved phone, big phone, 4K video phone, etc. etc. yet none of them are actually as useful or as well implemented as the 5S.

The android system beats out any ios however.

Yeah, I'm just going to go ahead and nip this IOS vs Android debate in the bud... lol

I rather like this idea. Not because it'll be useful for 4k, but because the oversampling will make 1080p usable. I have a 16 megapixel DSLR whose photos are useless at 16 megapixels, but look pretty good when scaled down to 1080p. I'm hoping that the emergence of 4k devices will finally make 1080p look like it should.

The 4K looks great!