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LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 52 points 9 months ago (11 children)

My 55" 4K OLED LG is the single greatest TV panel I've ever looked at. I can't determine any individual pixels, the blacks are black. I have no issues with it in the slightest. And I see absolutely no reason why any TV of that size should need 4x more pixel density (or whatever it is).

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

    Not sure what the manufacturers were thinking, this chart has existed for a long time, you have to be sitting pretty close or looking at a rather large screen for 8K to make sense

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    Yeah, most people aren't within 6 feet of their TV, and most people aren't buying 100" TVs either. 8K is relevant for virtually nobody.

    A lot of companies are successfully working on larger panels (I saw something about a 165" TV recently), so 8K may have a good place in a theatre room one day, but that still leaves you a lot of problems to solve first, and is far from mainstream until all of that becomes a lot cheaper.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    We bought a 60" LG LCD first. It was too big for our living room, so when the backlight went faulty and we were offered a refund we chopped it in for the 55" OLED, which is basically perfect for our room.

    Turns out 5" really can make a difference.

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Yea same. But I fucking DESPISE the LG remote. Holy shit whoever thought about putting a fucking trackpad as the main navigation element needs to burn in hell.

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

    Yeah, it's not great.

    Luckily, we do 99% of our viewing through an Apple TV, and we have a soundbar, so the ATV remote covers basically everything we need.

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

    Doesn’t the Apple TV remote also have a trackpad as it’s main control?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Not the current gen. Well, it can act as a trackpad, but that's not the primary input method. The previous gen, however, did have a trackpad. Again, it could be clicked, but it was generally shittier. The current remote is actually pretty nice.

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