Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K
magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
That’s because the answer isn’t higher resolutions, it was legally enforcing h.265 to be open source. Now the solution is AV1, but video codecs shouldn’t be locked down like that.
To act like that was ever in favor of “protecting the sciences” is a fucking joke.
jj4211@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Umm… ok, but that’s not really related to this article…
Everyone ditching H265 in favor af AV1 universally doesn’t make TVs sell any more or any more expensive.
magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
No, my point was that people don’t need higher resolutions, they need good transcoded that don’t look like shit.
Streaming services run at bitrates/codecs that look like cookie compared to bd rips even on my shitty $100 sceptre 1080p Amazon special TV.
Who the fuck needs an 8K when no ones willing to conveniently provide content that looks good on it, especially legally?
jj4211@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Ah, ok, that’s fair. I agree that codec/bitrate choice has made a lot of ostensibly ‘4k’ content look like crap, so why have 8k when many providers/internet connections won’t even cover the requisite detail to drive 4k in streaming.