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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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[–] 31 points 10 months ago (10 children)

8k no. 4k with a 4k Blu-ray player on actual non upscaled 4k movies is fucking amazing.

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

    I don't know if this will age like my previous belief that PS1 had photo-realistic graphics, but I feel like 4k is the peak for TVs. I recently bought a 65" 4k TV and not only is it the clearest image I've ever seen, but it takes up a good chunk of my livingroom. Any larger would just look ridiculous.

    Unless the average person starts using abandoned cathedrals as their livingrooms, I don't see how larger TVs with even higher definition would even be practical. Especially if you consider we already have 8k for those who do use cathedral entertainment systems.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago* (6 children)

    (Most) TVs still have a long way to go with color space and brightness. AKA HDR. Not to speak of more sane color/calibration standards to make the picture more consistent, and higher 'standard' framerates than 24FPS.

    But yeah, 8K... I dunno about that. Seems like a massive waste. And I am a pixel peeper.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    For media I highly agree. 8k doesn't seem to add much. For computer screens I can see the purpose though as it adds more screen real estate which is hard to get enough of for some of us. I'd love to have multiple 8k screens so I can organize and spread out my work.

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

    Are you sure about that? You likely use DPI scaling at 4K, and you’re likely limited by physical screen size unless you already use a 50” TV (which is equivalent to 4x standard 25” 1080p monitors).

    8K would only help at like 65”+, which is kinda crazy for a monitor on a desk… Awesome if you can swing it, but most can’t.

    I tangentially agree though. PCs can use “extra” resolution for various things like upscaling, better text rendering and such rather easily.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Truthfully I haven't gotten a chance to use an 8k screen, so my statement is more hypothetical "I can see a possible benefit".

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago*

    I’ve used 5K some.

    IMO the only ostensible benefit is for computer type stuff. It gives them more headroom to upscale content well, to avoid anti aliasing or blurry, scaled UI rendering, stuff like that. 4:1 rendering (to save power) would be quite viable too.

    Another example would be editing workflows, for 1:1 pixel mapping of content while leaving plenty of room for the UI.

    But for native content? Like movies?

    Pointless, unless you are ridiculously close to a huge display, even if your vision is 20/20. And it’s too expensive to be worth it: I’d rather that money go into other technical aspects, easily.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The frame rate really doesn't need to be higher. I fully understand filmmakers who balk at the idea of 48 or 60 fps movies. It really does change the feel of them and imo not in a necessarily positive way.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago*

    I respectfully disagree. Folk's eyes are 'used' to 24P, but native 48 or 60 looks infinitely better, especially when stuff is filmed/produced with that in mind.

    But at a bare minimum, baseline TVs should at least eliminate jitter with 24P content by default, and offer better motion clarity by moving on from LCDs, using black frame insertion or whatever.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I think you're right but how many movies are available in UHD? Not too many I'd think. On my thrifting runs I've picked up 200 Blurays vs 3 UHDs. If we can map that ratio to the retail market that's ~1% UHD content.

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