Are 1080p Moniters, TVs, Phones etc. extinct already.

[SvennoJ]

TomaTito said:

Netyaroze said:

Shadow1980 said:
4K just seems pointless for anything other than big-screen TVs. I see them maybe becoming the standard for anything 50" and above once the prices get low enough to be affordable to the mass market, but for small screens the difference would be negligible from normal viewing distances. Diminishing returns and all that jazz.

4k for VR is still far from ideal so its actually quite useful if we get very small screens with extremly high resolutions. The FOV in VR could be increased dramatically without seeing the black spaces between the pixels. For example a 4k on a 5.6 inch screen would make a FOV of 100+ degrees decent looking.

You are comparing apples with oranges. It is obviously beneficial for screens that are centimeters away from the viewer; but TVs are normally meters away, only 55+ would start to see benefits.

That chart is based on SMPTE 30. It sets the line at 60 pixels per degree before recommending a higher resolution. Now it's true that 20/20 vision is based on 30 cycles per degree resolution to be able to read text. But human visual acuity easily goes up to 40 or 50 cycles per degree and beyond. The point is not from what distance you can still make out the individual pixels, but from where you see a smooth life like picture.

Here's another chart from the absolute limits of human vision, to get pictures indistinguishable from looking out a window.