If your phone is 1080p you won’t be being served 8K video on any streaming service. 8K phone screens aren’t coming any time soon, as even 4K is overkill and rarely done - and even then, netflix etc still don’t stream 4K to them.
Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 4 days agoThat’s true, and to add to that, most mobile phone and many land Internet based connections are not unlimited and have caps. Nobody wants to stream a few 8k movies and use up their entire monthly cap in one shot.
-speaking as a US user, many countries offer unlimited as standard but not the evil empire.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 days ago
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah, storage/bandwidth is the overall limiting factor regardless for 8k. Also, most peoples xp with 4k is streaming, so there would likely be 100x more of a market for increasing bitrate from the current “compressed as all fuck” up to 4k Bluray bitrate, before anyone cares about 8k… but of course, that isn’t something that TV manufacturers can control or use to sell more products.