Yea same. But I fucking DESPISE the LG remote. Holy shit whoever thought about putting a fucking trackpad as the main navigation element needs to burn in hell.
Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market
djdarren@piefed.social 12 hours ago
My 55” 4K OLED LG is the single greatest TV panel I’ve ever looked at. I can’t determine any individual pixels, the blacks are black. I have no issues with it in the slightest. And I see absolutely no reason why any TV of that size should need 4x more pixel density (or whatever it is).
madcaesar@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
djdarren@piefed.social 9 hours ago
Yeah, it’s not great.
Luckily, we do 99% of our viewing through an Apple TV, and we have a soundbar, so the ATV remote covers basically everything we need.
CandleTiger@programming.dev 8 hours ago
Doesn’t the Apple TV remote also have a trackpad as it’s main control?
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
To be fair, Apple’s track pads are substantially better than the rest of the industries. Credit where credit is due.
djdarren@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Not the current gen. Well, it can act as a trackpad, but that’s not the primary input method. The previous gen, however, did have a trackpad. Again, it could be clicked, but it was generally shittier. The current remote is actually pretty nice.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Not sure what the manufacturers were thinking, this chart has existed for a long time, you have to be sitting pretty close or looking at a rather large screen for 8K to make sense
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rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
What it feels like to look at a TV that’s close enough to justify 8K:
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Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
Where would 1440p lie on this?
olympicyes@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
1440p screens are all monitors you sit 2-4’ from. That close you can justify a higher resolution but people pick 1440p for other reasons like frame rate.
Hazzard@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Yeah, most people aren’t within 6 feet of their TV, and most people aren’t buying 100" TVs either. Basically everyone is failing to make 8K relevant.
A lot of companies are successfully working on larger panels (I saw something about a 165" TV recently), so 8K may have a good place in a theatre room one day, but that still leaves you a lot of problems to solve first, and is far from mainstream until all of that becomes a lot cheaper.
djdarren@piefed.social 9 hours ago
We bought a 60” LG LCD first. It was too big for our living room, so when the backlight went faulty and we were offered a refund we chopped it in for the 55” OLED, which is basically perfect for our room.
Turns out 5” really can make a difference.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 8 hours ago
I am sitting within 6 feet of mine, well lying in bed really. The 50 inches of my TV are huge from that distance and it’s still well within the 1080p zone of that graphic. And this 4k TV was already pretty cheap when I bought it almost a decade ago. I gave up watching 4k content years ago when I could not tell the difference to high quality 1080p content.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
and then you have people like me who use 50inch TVs as computer monitors.