Yes, this is exactly what I meant
The reason I asked.
I bought the (at that time) $3000 LG 55EF9500 (the first flat OLED) and the Hopper 3. When I got the Hopper, I found out there almost no 4K content and the only way to actually get it was via Internet. Now I was stuck with a 3 mbps DSL at the time, so no help there. So I figured, why should I pay for 4K when there was NO 4k? The 1080p should be just as good...right?
So I exchanged the 9500 for the 55EG9100 which was $1000 less. Besides being curved (which I hated) the picture was NOT as good. The 9500 blew it away by any and all measures. And having pixels 1/2 (or whatever) the size of the 1080p's meant no scan lines whatsoever. I rushed to get the 9500 back (even though HH Gregg charged me a $300 "restocking feed"
) and as luck would have it, within 30 days Comcast moved into the neighborhood and I was able to drop my Windstream DSL and get a whopping 300 mbps from them...so 4K from Amazon and Netflix!
I'm guessing that since my (two) TVs were both very premium that the upscaler on the 9500 was better than the difference may be on more entry level TVs. At least that's my theory and I am sticking to it.