Your example contradicts you.

2K, 4K, and 8K+ TVs have been around forever, and although 4K has become the norm, it's widely accepted that there isn't much benefit for most people above 1080p

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brianwawok 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Depends on distance and size, there is a lovely chart. My projector at 10 feet away is night and day difference at 4k. Mathematically 8k should look identical, so I haven’t spent the money to try it to confirm.

The 1080p thing is true in the age of 40” TVs but not so much now, think Costco has a 95” TV if not 100”.

	▲	phatfish 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I can definitely tell the difference between 1080 and 4k on my 55inch at around the recommended viewing distance. Less so on a 42 inch. A 4k image will look good even on a projector, as you say. Personally I think 4k (with HDR) is good enough for consumer use, so agree with the parent theoretically just not quantitatively. It did take around 20 years from DVD to 4k Bluray though.

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HelloMcFly 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> it's widely accepted that there isn't much benefit for most people above 1080p

Is it? By whom? For larger TVs, closer distance, or a combination of the two, there absolutely is value from 4k. https://i.rtings.com/images/optimal-viewing-distance-televis...

Though I'm unlikely to ever upgrade from 1440p on my computer, personally.

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StilesCrisis 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It depends on TV size. If you've ever experienced Netflix on a 75" TV, 1080p content looks mediocre on it. So really it's better expressed as "there isn't much benefit for most TV sizes."

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broeng 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I wont quite argue, that 1080p is always enough on a 75", but your example is more a Netflix problem; their compression results in hideous quality, and it's not really representative of what 1080p could be.

	▲	StilesCrisis 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Granted, maybe Netflix wasn't the best example, but I was just trying to be succinct.

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oblio 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, but that's based on a hard limits, the physics of the eye. The example was poorly chosen.