Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K

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• blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Hell, OLED and high bitrate 1080 is probably good enough for me for the rest of my life.

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  • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Shitrate 4k and 1080p are all you get on streaming platforms. Hard to get good quality bitrates outside of I guess bluray and piracy.

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    • blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I feel like that was implied in my comment ;-)

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    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And piracy gets them from Bluray.

      Now that that’s dying I’m afraid we’re gonna be stuck with streaming bitrates.

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      • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I guess we should buy more Blu-rays. But I don’t have a good space to library all of them… wait a sec… I have an idea…

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    • Wooki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If you don’t use an “approved” browser Netflix reduces the stream to 320p. God awful service. Fucking streaming

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    • fizzle@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I never choose higher bitrate releases. IDK why exactly. When you search for a movie and there’s a half dozen releases, you choose the groups you know, and the number of seeders, and usually end up with a 2gb to 4gb release size. The bitrate doesn’t really factor into my decision, partly I suppose because it’s always “good enough”, and partly because it’s not a reliable indicator of image quality anyway.

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      • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Once I upgraded to a 4k tv I started pulling 4K HDR versions. It can be hard to know how good the quality will be between 5GB, 10GB, 25GB and 50GB movies, because there are many substandard releases out there. Especially true with older content.

        Newer stuff can make a difference, but let’s be realistic. It costs nothing to just download a few versions and see. :)

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  • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Same, I have a 55" OLED and I game in 1080p. 4K looks a bit crisper, but my video card doesn’t like me when we do that.

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  • morto@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    People tend to forget bitrate when talking about image quality, and arguably it’s even more important than resolution. Even a 480p video can look great at a small screen if encoded with a good bitrate, and even a 4k video can look like shit if encoded with too low bitrate

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’d be surprised if the average person can differentiate 720p and 4k

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    • blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I legitimately cannot tell the difference between 1080 and 4k, however I do wear glasses.

      But 720 feels like garbage to me.

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      • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Wasn’t speaking about you.

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    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Depends on the screen size and distance.

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      • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        At a typical screen size and distance

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• QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I love OLED and can’t go back, hoping that we enter uniform OLED adoption at some point. I’d like to see them focus on lowering the price and raising the longevity of OLED displays. Doubt it on that first one though. Kind of a tangent but I also want to see what the future of e-ink displays are, especially with better colors and refresh rate.

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  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve steered away from OLED thus far due to concerns about burn-in. It just isn’t something I want to have to deal with.

    It’s bad enough that I need to worry about write cycles on SSDs, but the advantage over HDDs is so overwhelming that I deal with it.

    Longevity is a very important criteria for me, as I tend to upgrade infrequently and buy near top of the line for its time.

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    • ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I play Guild Wars 2, and I’m worried if I bought an OLED I would end up with the UI permanently burned in. The technology just doesn’t seem compatible with games that feature a persistent UI.

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    • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My OLED is going on 8 years now and it has no signs of burn in. I don’t watch TV with permanent station logos though, if that is something that your OLED would have to withstand

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  • LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    future of e-ink displays

    Call me batshit insane, I want them to figure out dual stack displays.
    OLED for watching, E-Ink for showing art when the TV is turned like Samsung’s ‘Frame TV’, but lower in power consumption, more life-like and in the same TV set.

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