I don't think video resolution will increase all that much in the future, except for niche uses, as the resolution of the human eye becomes a limiting factor.

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ColdStream a day ago | parent | next [-]

Pretty much. 1080p it very good, 4K is near perfect to me. By the time you can see the pixels you are WAY too close to the screen.

	▲	account42 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		4K is already at the point where a lot of the additional detail you're getting is noise. 8K is just a joke for people with too much money.

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joshspankit a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You may be underestimating the desire to earn through differentiation.

Assuming the product companies accept the plateau on resolution (I agree it’s likely), there are many ways to exploit the other stuff. Colour space, tacling each type of compression artifact, additional channels (probly not long until we have HDR RGBW), etc etc and those will each come with their committees made of patent-hungry companies seeing non-encumbered encodings as “undesirable”

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smackeyacky a day ago | parent | next [-]

I don’t think it matters in a practical sense. Our streaming overlords have already shown that by crippling the effective color space of supposedly 4K video they care little for quality of broadcast. Crushed blacks and smeared video are all you’ll get no matter what the standards say. They were, are and remain terrible on 1080 video, 4K is a farce.

	▲	joshspankit 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You’ve missed the point: each addition can (and likely will, based on history) be the way to bring more patents into the market. It rarely has anything to do with objective quality (except in the marketing)

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account42 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You can only ask so much more before customers stop buying your "better" product without seeing some real value. 4K HDR is already at that point (for home video releases anyway).

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makeitdouble a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I read "resolution" as pixel count more than DPI.

As it becomes cheaper to capture and process higher res content, we're bound to push it to bigger displays (VR included). I guess the human eye will be the limit when we're at retina levels of DPI on a sphere.

	▲	Dylan16807 a day ago \| parent [-]
		Most videos are probably going to stay aimed near 30-40 degrees of width. So while we already can do 8k or higher pretty easily, 4k is enough for a huge amount of content. Even 1080p can hit "retina" at 30 degrees, if barely. And while that threshold for "retina" is flawed it's pretty good for video content. We'll see how much 360 content shows up, but the size gap is so big it basically needs to be handled entirely differently. A 16x9 screen, 40 degrees wide, is only 2% of a sphere.

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dabinat a day ago | parent | prev [-]

For distribution perhaps, but for acquisition it makes sense to have the highest resolution possible.