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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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 49 points 10 months ago (11 children)

4k is way better than 1080p, it's not even a question. You can see that shit from a mile away. 8k is only better if your TV is comically large.

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago* (7 children)

    I think you overestimate the quality of many humans' eyes. Many people walk around with slightly bad vision no problem. Many older folks have bad vision even corrected. I cannot distinguish between 1080 and 4k in the majority of circumstances. Stick me in front of a computer and I can notice, but tvs and computers are at wildly different distances.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I used to have 20/10 vision, this 20/20 BS my cataract surgeon says I have now sucks.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Thats what you humans get for having the eyes from fish

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I can immediately tell when a game is running at 1080p on my 2K monitor (yeah, I'm not interested in 4K over higher refresh rate, so I'm picking the middle ground.)

    Its blatantly obvious when everything suddenly looks muddy and washed together.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    I think that's relevant to the discussion though. Most people sit like two feet from their gaming monitor and lean forward in their chair to make the character go faster.

    But most people put a big TV on the other side of a boring white room, with a bare white ikea coffee table in between you and it, and I bet it doesn't matter as much.

    I bet the closest people ever are to their TV is when they're at the store buying it...

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