| Shadow1980 said: A friend of mine bought an 85" TV a few months back and I figured if I could notice a difference on my 55" TV going from 1080p to 4K, then you could notice something on TV that big for 8K. If you really can't unless it's right up in your face, then I guess 4K really is the end of the road. Also, I forgot Murder, She Wrote lasted as long as it did. I watched it occasionally when I was a kid, but it looks like it was on TV from when I was four years old and ended when I was sixteen. Overall, the adventures of Jessica Fletcher ran 264 episodes plus four TV movies. But that huge set looks like a common issue for long series even on DVD. Star Trek TNG's complete box set is 48 discs on DVD and 41 discs on Blu-ray. So, looks like four episodes on average per disc for both shows on Blu-ray, or about three hours worth of show. So yeah, TV shows on physical home really could have benefited from a disc large enough to store at least twice as many episodes at a given quality. |
4K can still be so much better before going to 8K, same for 1080p. Blu-ray often looks better in motion than 4K streaming and that's also heavily compressed. Bandwidth is much more important now than resolution. 4K blu-ray on 1080p TV looks better than Blu-ray on the same TV.
Consider uncompressed 1080p 24 fps at 8 bit is 1.11 Gbps -> streams at 5-10 mbps.
Uncompressed 4K 24 fps at 10 bit HDR is 5.56 Gbps -> streams at 15-25 mbps.
Blu-ray streams at 20-40 mbps
4K UHD blu-ray streams at 92-144 mbps
Digital cinema streams at 175-250 mbps. (newer equipment can do up to 500 mbps)
Anyway 4K is the end of the road for human vision in the living room until the screen occupies more than 45 degrees of your fov. Which is 2.3m / 7.5ft or closer to a 85" TV. So unless we get this
4K is more than plenty for the living room.
For PC you can get ultra wide curved monitors like
https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/samsung-57-8k-ultra-hd-240hz-1ms-gtg-curved-va-led-freesync-gaming-monitor-ls57cg952nnxza-black-white/17160882fwxRoCfnwQAvD_BwE
57-inch display with 7680 x 2160 native resolution
You would have to sit between 2-3 ft from that thing to appreciate 8K, over 5ft and you won't be able to tell the difference between 4K and 8K.
You will still be able to tell the difference through lower aliasing and up scaling artifacts, super sampling works. You don't need an 8K display for better visuals, you need high bandwidth, higher native render resolutions first. Not at today's GPU prices :/
