4K content you need to watch

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Okja, Netflix’s controversial entry at this year’s Cannes, is a visually amazing fantasy about a Super Pig bred to provide the world with more jerky. It may be a powerful polemic on consumerism, but we mainly loved it for the tasty visuals. The opening scenes set in a resplendent Korean forest are glorious, and if you watch the film in HDR, Okja’s bristly hide appears disturbingly realistic.

We’ve seen a slew of superb UHD Blu-rays this year, but our current favourite is John Wick 2. Its UHD image quality will test the technical mettle of the finest 4K TVs. Opening with a soaring city view, there’s plenty of scope for spectral HD highlights, wide colour and huge detail. Dan Laustsen’s cinematography is vibrant, while the action scenes are immaculately staged. Gun-fu has rarely looked so gorgeous.

If you want something a little more fanciful to push your panel, grab a copy of The Martian, which has a colour palette and cinematography that dazzles (no surprise from Ridley Scott), or Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, which is mind-bogglingly inventive from start to finish.

For more down-to-earth eye candy, The Grand Tour (Amazon Video) takes some beating. The irreverent car(ish) show features some of the most spectacular automotive photography on the box, and it also looks ravishing in UHD. HDR highlights cause those cars to glint with almost three-dimensional realism.

Marvel’s Netflix universe provides a more gritty UHD viewing experience. Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist share a highly realistic dark aesthetic, characterised by copious shadow detail – for best effect, watch their hijinx on an OLED screen! Similarly rewarding is Stranger Things (also Netflix). This ‘80s-influenced horror show is another example of gorgeously dressed binge-worthy TV.

And if you like historical drama with a flurry of Kung-Fu, don’t miss out on Marco Polo. Lusciously filmed by Vanja Cernjul, it was the first Netflix show to be shot in UHD HDR.

Finally, don’t miss Amazon’s alt-history fantasy The Man in the High Castle. The depth that 4K brings to the show’s hugely ambitious visuals is mesmerising. Get 3 i ssues of T3 for just £ 6! See p56