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LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 34 points 9 months ago (9 children)

The only market for 8k is movie theaters and megatrons. It’s absolutely not necessary to have it in your tv in your house. And it’s also insanely expensive to get the proper hardware to drive it at full resolution.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Most cinemas are 2k as well I think

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    IMAX has a laser thing that renders in 4K, but the point still stands. 1080p is good enough for me, and cinema once a year to have fun with friends.

    The automatic HDR on my TV was a revolution because it changed the picture. 4K changes nothing.

    It's not like we went from black-and-white to color TV, it's like "here are way more pixels but most people don't care because they talk and drink during the movie." Movie nerds may care and it's fine, but I can't justify buying a new TV for that.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    And it’s also insanely expensive to get the proper hardware to drive it at full resolution.

    The shame being 8K (as 2x4K or even more) is awesome for VR headsets, but the only things capable of really driving them are stupidly expensive (thanks NVIDIA) or dual card setups (thanks Mobo producers for making that bad, and CPU manufacturers who insist consumers only need 20-24 PCIe lanes to artificially segment the market, sigh).

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Even there it's wasted. There is just no place between pixel density, size and distance for anythng much over 4k. Humans can only see that sharp. Except maybe video walls, where you don't see the whole image at once.

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