Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs

Sunflier@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How high detail if 300 dpi is already almost impossible to separate into dots for a human eye?

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  • Sunflier@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Some surgeries don’t open someone completely up and rely on imaging machines (like when they put a stint in a heart). Also some surgeries are done remotely. So high detail can be important.

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    • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think you’ve missed the point. At a certain pixel per inch, your eye cannot see more detail or discern any difference, so it’s completely useless to have more if you’re not able to pick up on it.

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    • SparroHawc@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The primary difference there will be in camera quality then, not monitor resolution - and if the doctor needs to see something in higher detail, they move the camera closer. Cameras that small aren’t going to be 4K anyways, the sensor density doesn’t get that high.

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    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yikes, if you’re trying to put a “stint” into someone’s heart, imaging is the least of your worries.

      Solution: use a stent.

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      • Sunflier@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Not a doctor, so I’ll take your word for it.

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• yogurtwrong@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why would the medical field need 8k screens? They can just zoom in on a lower res display y’know? Nobody is looking at a screen with a magnifying glass

  I think a possible application for 8k displays is the huge displays where viewer is extremely close to the display. But that would still just be the same pixel density as a lower res display.

  Another are I think high pixel density might be useful for is patterning. Like PCB manufacturing and other photoresist stuff. But that’s problem already solved by much cheaper technologies

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  • Sunflier@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Why would the medical field need 8k screens?

    I’d rather the doctor performing life-saving surgery not have screen resolution being an inhibition.

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    • yogurtwrong@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh come on most doctors still view stuff like scans on 720p VGA screens. It’s fine. High resolution imaging is important not hi res viewers.

      This is like saying you need to have a 128k screen to view electron microscope images

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      • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        But the doctor needs to see every quark and gluon in your molecules! How did they perform heart transplants in the 1960s! Please don’t get in the way of technophiles inventing all kinds of fantasy scenarios to justify their hoarder-like behavior.

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      • Sunflier@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        High resolution imaging is important not hi res viewers.

        You’re probably right in like 99.999999999999999999999999999999999% of cases, but I’d want to ensure we could save that extra 0.000000000000000000000000000000001%. I’d sacrifice anything and everything to save my loved ones. So, its probably overkill, but I’d rather screen resolution not being the thing that costs me time with those I care about.

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      8k screens won’t make any difference.

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• UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I work in construction and the “digital” plan table has a resolution issue.

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