8K decoding needs HW acceleration, unless having 8-16 cores with AVX-512.

Yes, but that's way out of budget for most consumers.

Actually not really, Lunar Lake chips with Xe2 graphics have VVC decoding in hardware which can do 8K.

They were likely saying that 8K displays are way out of budget for most consumers.

	▲	aboardRat4 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Where I live, we have 50 inch 8k TVs for 180 USD.