Alby_da_Wolf on 28 December 2008
| coyot3 said: I remember reading an article that stated the human eye can't really differentiate anything higher than 1080p. If that's true then what's the point of going any higher? |
Not so simple, it depends on the distance from which you look and the dimensions of the single pixel. It depends on the context, at the cinema 1080p would look grainy, particularly from the front rows, on a 32" to 50" or even more TV watched in the living room and not standing too close it's fine.
Edit: to be more precise, the absolute measure of maximum eye resolution is an angle (*), its chord at a given radius is its spatial resolution at a distance from the eye equal to the radius.
(*) to make things less simple, eye resolution isn't constant, it varies and it's higher in the inner zone of visual field.
