Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 20 hours agoI don’t remember that discussion at all… I remember people being super excited for 1080p, but annoyed that there was no content for it because DVDs were still 480p and TV content was similar. Blurays were 1080p, but weren’t really a thing until the late 00s.
We’ve had 4k for a decade, and there’s still not much content for it. When there is, the difference w/ 1080p isn’t so significant as to be worth the cost, as it’s usually just upscaled 1080 content. 4k makes a lot of sense for a monitor that’s 30" or larger, but for a TV where you’re 10 feet away it doesn’t make nearly as much sense.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
I forgot to mention, I sold TVs when 1080p was popularized and HD-DVD and Blu Ray came out hahaha. That’s mostly where I heard the “you can’t tell the difference between 720p and 1080” BS. There was plenty of 1080p stuff by the end of the ‘00s and people were still making that argument.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Ah, ok. I’m mostly going based on personal experience from the time.