IHS: North America 4K TV Shipments Set To Surpass 1080p In 2017

[RolloTheGreat]

For the human eye to see the difference in 1080p and 4K on a 70" TV, the eye has to be less than 5' from the TV. Don't plan on moving my furniture to the middle of the room to see the difference.



For gaming and PC monitors I get 4K, it's beautiful. For TVs, 1080p is truly "good enough" because you can't see better. It's sort of like speakers that can produce sound outside the range human ears can hear. Better, but what's the point?

When Rollo Jr goes off to college and takes his 60" tv out of my rec room, I'll probably put my 60" 1080p down there and buy a 70" 4K for my living room. I don't plan on the resolution making a difference though.

I can certainly tell the difference between a 50" 4K display and a 1080p one at a store, standing maybe 8' away.  Just go to Best Buy and see for yourself.

Also, go for 80" instead of 70" if possible - the difference is worth it.  Movies would feel that much more like at the theater.  70" will feel small and cheap a few years from now, for a standard living room experience (if we look at the standards of technological progress).

I see what you mean, the 4% of people who were buying tvs over 70" at the end of 2014 might get up to 8% by the end of 2018. It would be a bad deal if 8-10% of people in the nation had a bigger tv than I do, people would probably whisper and point when I went to stores.

"He should have bought a 80" tv, I've heard there's a guy in his neighborhood that bought the 80"! I wonder if he got laid off?!"

https://blog.datarank.com/monitoring-tv-...versation/



I've observed in life that people spend a good percentage of their time trying to justify their purchases to themselves and convince others to do as they've done. Don't know why this is, but it's pretty pervasive.

Sorry Bofox, between pretty universal agreement in reviews I've seen about 4K tvs not being a big noticeable jump in image quality, total absence of 4K content available from my cable provider, and my general satisfaction with my 60" 1080p tvs, I won't be taking off work today to follow your advice.

When Rollo Jr heads off to college and takes his 60" 1080p out of the rec room, I'll buy a new tv and I imagine it will be 4k and bigger than the 60". Nothing about the situation currently is making me head to the store. I'll just muddle along with the rest of the 90%, blighted by our poverty and tiny tvs.