can be a bit tricky sometimes, can't it? If you had a 42" 4k television or monitor you would need to sit no farther than about 4 feet away to see the full potential of it come out. If you sat 6 feet away the image would be indistinguishable from 1080p if you were using the full potential of a 1080p monitor (probably accomplished by downscaling a 4k video).
Then you've got the fact you need a good source material to make the most of whatever resolution you choose. You can download 1080p blu ray rips of movies that usually come out to around 2.7 gigabytes for a 2 hour movie, having been re-encoded from a 25 gb source file. These videos are bit starved and although they are technically "1080p" the detail level that is seen in any scene with even a slight bit of movement is probably not much more than a full-power 720p encode.
And even if you do everything technically right, if the people making your source material were even slightly off-the-ball during production you won't get the full quality of 4k. Any slight loss of focus will blur the image and reduce resolved detail to around 1080p or less. 4k is pretty hard to sustain from a production standpoint. 8k is a nightmare. And there is the fact that a lot of consumers record things in 4k with lenses that just aren't sharp enough to really gather the detail for that to make a difference except in very controlled conditions.
There's viewing angles, contrast levels, response times... these things also influence whether an image looks more detailed or not.
This is why 8k will never actually be "a thing" for home users.
Liam Howard
or you can simply use it like a normal person, ignoring that meme graph
Eli Fisher
>ignoring facts
lol, you can ignore it, but it's still true an 85" 8k at 6-7 feet will look identical to a 4k monitor of the same size.
Asher Parker
they should get rid of the native resolution thing instead of bumping the resolution every year and making old content look even worse.
Chase Gray
Oh it's far too late for that, user. It was always too late.
More autism:
Back in the 90s before HDTV was widespread you could have owned a 36" CRT television if you wanted to be a hot shot. You could order a service called 4DTV that was available on C-Band satellites. When you did this you would have access to the highest possible signal quality available, the "master feed" used to transmit television programs to lesser satellite and cable networks. This was as close to straight-out-of-the-camera as you could get. I was lucky enough to see one of these set ups and watched quite a lot of television on it. It blew me away, and I haven't really felt like many improvements have been made since.
