Originally Posted by bronco67

A lot of people don't realize that you don't see the difference in these double resolution jumps while viewing on a small screen. By small, I mean anything under 65 inches.

I have a 4k 65 inch screen and I can barely tell the difference between 1080p and 4k...although I have viewed 4K on a 120 inch screen and that's where it pays off. The detail was amazing on that big screen.


So unless people start having movie theater size screens in their homes, there's not much point to 8K. It's seriously diminishing returns vs the amount of headache which will be involved in producing and storing --- not to mention the bandwidth needed to stream it.

Also, any quality gain from these ultra resolutions can be canceled out by quality loss from compression algorithms.

I work in Cg graphics daily and when I rent a streaming movie I usually go with the 720p option. 1080p doesn't look that much better to me.

and 4K? Who cares?

8K? Fuck you. You can keep it.

By the way, the only place I've noticed resolutions really matter is in VR porn. The higher res and frame rate, the better and that's because it's right in your face and any pixelation ruins the experience.