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Study Boldly Claims 4K And 8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes, But Is It True? (hothardware.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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A new study published in Nature by University of Cambridge researchers just dropped a pixelated bomb on the entire Ultra-HD market, but as anyone with myopia can tell you, if you take your glasses off, even SD still looks pretty good :)

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[–] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

It sounds like the study actually did include display distance, and gave different requirements depending.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    My point is, I could do a study too and claim that 4K/8K TVs are much better than HD to your eyes. Its just the setup and source that makes the difference.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Now that I've actually looked at the study, what they did is make an apparatus with continuously adjustable distance to display and try to get people to distinguish scaled, fairly similar clips until they couldn't anymore.

    Actual maximum pixel-per-visual-degree values varied quite a bit based on colours involved and the like. And like @GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org said, they framed the results the opposite way to the article - human vision can distinguish more than previously thought.

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