The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ar_xiv on 2024-06-26 16:06:59.
Ultra high resolution is good for text and UI rendering, and (dubiously) good for gaming. Movies though? What an incredible waste of space! 98% of old movies shot on film look great at 720p. 1080p if you really want the crispest experience. New, digitally shot movies look better at 1080p, but that's because they are compensating for bad lighting and other modern issues with intense detail. If a movie requires resolution above 1080p to be properly enjoyed, then I'm not going to be properly enjoying it in my home in the first place. That's for a dang IMAX theater.
Most people's 4K televisions look like ass. They have really obvious frame consistency issues, and don't get me started on HDR. That being said, theoretically, the higher resolution the screen, the better the scaling will be from a low resolution. That's just not what I see in practice.
4K video is a huge waste of space. This is a tangent, but I have a videographer friend, and she has untold terabytes of unedited (barely compressed) 4k video just sitting around. You want to talk about data hoarding, video editors are in deep. It's a huge issue for her. The stranglehold these higher resolutions have over that industry is downright silly. I get that having more resolution to work with at the editing stage is theoretically better no matter the final resolution, but still. For a small time videographer, there is almost zero benefit. Most video editors have to edit with a crappy low-res proxy footage because they don't have $3000 computers, when they could just be editing natively in 1080p through the whole process on nearly any halfway decent computer.