01-05-2016, 08:01 PM
Quote:Very interesting, I wonder if it will come to pass.
I would say almost certainly. Black Friday this year I saw many 4K sets in the ~$800 range, these weren't some POS Element or not quite proven Hisense displays- Samsung and Sharp were included- given they weren't the top of line displays by any means, but they weren't terrible. Two year more for price adjustments, I think it will be akin to 720p, before too long you won't see it on larger screens at all, and then it will vanish from the small ones too.
Quote:Reason number 1 4K TVs are meaningless to me:
I've seen those charts, and I realize my eyes are considerably better than average(20/10), but I was walking through Target the other day and could *easily* spot the difference between 1080P and 4K from thirty feet away on a pair of 55" screens- this wasn't even remotely close to being hard to tell, it was a whack between the eyes even at that distance. I think that some people confuse ability to discern individual pixels with the ability to notice vastly greater visual information. Hell, Anandtech and a bunch of the other rabid Mac fanboy sites ran lengthy articles about how we would never need greater then 300PPI on a phone, while clearly those displays now look pixelated and downright low rez compared to modern displays.
Quote:For TVs, 1080p is truly "good enough" because you can't see better.
I'd say compare an 8K display to 1080p from ten feet away. I'm willing to wager you would *easily* notice the difference. Outside of clarity issues, there are also depth perception advantages to having a high enough pixel density.