Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market
kameecoding@lemmy.world 9 hours agoNot 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
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.
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.
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.
and then you have people like me who use 50inch TVs as computer monitors.
Where would 1440p lie on this?
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.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
What it feels like to look at a TV that’s close enough to justify 8K:
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