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.
Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market
Hazzard@lemmy.zip 7 hours agoYeah, 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.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 5 hours ago
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
and then you have people like me who use 50inch TVs as computer monitors.
djdarren@piefed.social 6 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.