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SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 hours agoWhy? 4k is already just past the human vision resolution. Anything denser is just masturbation.
Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 hours agoWhy? 4k is already just past the human vision resolution. Anything denser is just masturbation.
accideath@feddit.org 7 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.