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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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by artifex@piefed.social 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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[–] Olap@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

That's why I have a 65" and sit barely 2m from it. Stick on a 4k Dolby Vision encoded file through Jellyfin. Looks fucking great!

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

They did get around to saying it's pixel density at the end...

But still, it's human variation. Everybody is gonna be different. I'm not a resolution snob, but anything under 100fps pulls me out of the experience. So usually I just run at 1440, when I have fps to spare I'll put all the settings up rather than go to 4k.

Other people would rather 30fps at 4 or even 8k

[–] vane@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

But they are much better for energy companies

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Me getting 480p videos for my video projector : "Oh... no really?" ¯\(ツ)/¯

PS: FWIW I do have a Vision Pro (for work, I didn't pay for it personally) so I technically could enjoy high res content... but honestly I can't bother using this to watch videos. I'm fine with just my desktop screen or video projector. I just don't get the high res.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is pretty obvious due to how they had to add HDR at the same time to sell it. The HDR was a real progression, but they wouldn’t get to sell you higher res Blu-ray formats and streaming packages with just that.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 5 months ago

I watch 576i DVDs on a 24" 1366x768 TV and I don't mind because I sit reasonably far.

[–] caboose2006@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I've been saying this for years.

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