Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2

• SolarPunker@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well, 4k is a great technology for gaming and cinema, highly recommended if you have the space.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m with them; my 1080p TV still gets the job done and looks great to me. Maybe I’d be more invested in cinema if cinema cared more about what I want. I can’t even walk into brick and mortar and buy a movie anymore, and it’s not like there’s a GOG for movies.

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    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s a time and place for 4k. It is not all the time. But some things are treats with high resolution and pixels-per-fov of your vision. Also oled looks so, so good.

      That being said, 1080p for older stuff looks perfectly fine, and I’d argue audio quality, audio stereo image, and accurate frequency spectrum resolution is game changing, and arguably more important.

      RE: gog for movies: that is a fascinating idea. What would that look like, to you? I’m very curious.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I just need to be able to buy and download DRM-free movies. Outside of that, I don’t care what it looks like. Movie studios put so much DRM on my Blu Rays that they’re a pain to rip (but notably, not impossible to rip), and “digital copies” of movies are just long term rentals. Meanwhile the movie industry is on fire while their old revenue streams dry up, and they’re scratching their heads as to where they went wrong.

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    • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My tv is 4k, but I exclusively watch 1080p movies and series on it. I’m not going to double my subscription costs just to get 4k streaming, and most piratable files are 1080p.

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      • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yar har har

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      • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Piracy has been on 4K for longer than streaming has been charging extra for it. New releases on the scene have actually started skipping FHD unless explicitly requested.

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    • SolarPunker@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah if you care about cinema you definely want a better resolution and considering to buy your UHD versions whenever available, but I could say the same for some modern videogames.

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  • drasglaf@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    highly recommended if you have the space.

    And the money. Especially if you game on PC.

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    • vonxylofon@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m watching things in 4K and playing in 1080p. It’s exactly four times the pixels, so it’s pixel-perfect scaling and it looks fine. (58" TV and the sofa is about 3 metres far, so a bit on the smallish side. I’m sure a 65" would look just as good.)

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      • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Woah 3 meters is really far for a 60 inch. I have a 60 inch at about 1-1.4 meters and it’s great. Perfect for two people on a couch with some nice bookshelf speakers heavily toe’d in. It’s not great for entertaining, but for watching things it’s honestly better than some theaters.

        It’s all about how much it fills up your field of vision and how closely your retina’s resolution matches the display’s resolution. I don’t want to have to turn my head at all to see things, and still be able to use my peripheral vision to have good awareness of the entire scene, and not see individual pixels if I can help it. But, still have it fill as much of my vision as possible while within those constraints.

        Been wanting to upgrade to a 70-80 inch screen, too, at the same distance.

        Another big variable is height placement of the tv in relation to one’s head height and angle while comfortably sitting where you’ll sit. Sit, close your eyes, sit comfortably, play with tilting your head forwards and back until you find a comfortable and sustainable pitch angle, with your eyes still closed look directly out from your skull, open your eyes, and that location is where the middle of your tv should be (it’s usually about 10-20degrees down from directly ahead, but is different for everybody and your seating position and body). So if your tv is 3meters away, your optimum tv height might be on the literal floor. (And also speaker woofer and cabinet size for the volume of the room (bigger speakers for bigger rooms), and placement, depending on viewership location and count, go for an equilateral triangle between your seating position and the two speakers and default to having the tweeters at ear height with no obstructions and pointing at your ears for the most accurate imaging and least amount of comb filtering, and keep the woofers and tweeters vertically aligned to minimize time variance, which is good for stereo image, and try not to have you or speakers too close to walls or especially corners).

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    • SolarPunker@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s another reason consoles still make sense for many gamers.

      PS. From a PC player

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      • drasglaf@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’ve been a PC player for 2 decades now, but it’s getting so expensive! I can’t go back to consoles after being so free, but high end PC gaming is probably over for me. I feel one of my biggest mistakes was buying my first 1440p monitor, everything gets more expensive and I put myself in that position.

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