Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 4 days agoI am saying that the ability to store the content is needed before people will be able to make the demand for it. So take streaming platforms for instance. They won’t want to build more server farms and instead just upgrade what they have. So once 100TB drives are readily available they will start upgrading and then influence the media companies to start scanning at 8k. The people scanning the damn movies will need to store it too. You know whoever is the first to start offering the content be it Netflix or Disney will start a chain reaction and then 8k will take off but I’m sure it will be a slower build up compared to 4k.
borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Ah ok I see what you were saying. Honestly I think we’ll see physical media first, like multilayer Blu-ray Discs or something, that drive the initial adoption, just like with 4K. One people get a taste of it, demand will force streamers to offer it at a premium tier, until it eventually just becomes normalized.
But yeah I think it’s gonna be way slower than the buildup to 4K also.