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Study Boldly Claims 4K And 8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes, But Is It True? (hothardware.com)
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A new study published in Nature by University of Cambridge researchers just dropped a pixelated bomb on the entire Ultra-HD market, but as anyone with myopia can tell you, if you take your glasses off, even SD still looks pretty good :)

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[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is so much bullshit. 4K does make a difference, specially if playing console games on a large TV (65" and up).

[–] richardwallass@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago

Agree they did the test with a 44 inch. That's why they got this result.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Console games that all run at <720p getting upscaled to hell and back. We have come so far since the PS3 where games ran at <720p, but without upscaling. lol

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 23 hours ago

Yeah, my PS5 games are definitely not 720p

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you're sitting 3' from the screen, sure. Even 8K is better, if your hardware can drive it.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Let's agree to disagree. I can see the difference at a distance of 6', and I wear glasses.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Can you see the difference without your glasses?

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Not as much, but yes. However, it may be because now I'm actively looking for the difference after this thread, hehe.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah... we have a 55" 4K tv, and from across the room you sort of have to squint to tell the difference between 4K and 1080p, up close sure, but I don't watch screens that big from that close.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Next year, when our house construction is completed, I need to choose 2 new TVs, an 85 and a 65. At this point I'm looking for longevity more than all the marketing sticker BS being pushed now. I will probably go with a couple of Scepter non-smart TVs and just keep running my media from Jellyfin with a couple of NUCs attached to them, hehe.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 points 9 hours ago

The closest thing to "Smart TVs" in our home are Blu-Ray players, and they've never been network connected.

I like the ViewSonics we have, and we've had a series of NUCs over the years, but lately I'm finding that the N100/N150 fanless PCs like this are perfectly capable of HTPC duty: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWV439YW