Just because you connect to a 4K TV doesn’t mean is has to play in 4K.
I’ve connected my Steam Deck to my 8K TV.
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voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 9 hours agoThis machine is designed to be played on a 4k TV. Upscaling may help, but it will hard limit the machine in the future.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Well, at least we now know you have more dollars than sense.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
That’s been true for years now! 😉
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Why? 4k is already just past the human vision resolution. Anything denser is just masturbation.
bilb@lemmy.ml 1 minute ago
Well, not everyone posting here is human.
accideath@feddit.org 8 hours ago
Yea, a lot of people don’t realise, how stupid 8K TVs are.
4K does make a lot of sense in many cases, especially if you set up your TV for an optimal „cinematic“ viewing distance (roughly 2-2.5m for a 65“ TV, for example) allowing it to fill roughly 30-40° of your field of view, as recommended by the SMPTE.
At 30-40° our eyes have about the resolution of 3-4K (or, technically, a bit less than 100 pixels per degree in greyscale, even less in colour).
Meaning, you would need a screen that fills more than 40° of your FOV for there to be a meaningful difference between 4K and 8K. That would translate to a distance of less than 2m to the 65“ TV in the previous example. More like 1m if you want to get the most out of the 8K. That’s about the FOV you get in an IMAX theatre. I don’t think very many people would set up their home TV like that, and unless you are, 8K is just throwing money out of the window.