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Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs (www.howtogeek.com)

submitted 6 days ago by TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] fuzzywombat@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

What's your opinion on using 8K TV as a monitor?

https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/y2023m12d15/

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Yeah, no shit. The only possible use is gaming, and even PC owners have been upscaling for some time now.

The only case where you might even notice a difference by going to 8K resolution is high end VR, but that's no reason to have 8K in a TV.

Even 4K is overkill for most movies. The HDR is the selling point there, which I'll admit looks nice.

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[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I would be fine with an 8k TV if there was 8k content and they were affordable. I haven’t purchased a TV in over a decade however and my TVs all work fine so I’m not even in the market

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[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 20 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I work off metered data. I’m happy with 360p.

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[–] Resplendent606@piefed.social 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm happy with 1080p content. I have a 4k TV and from the couch I can't see a difference. I would be perfectly happy with a bargain 4k TV, bigger the better.

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Maybe if they add 3D, people will buy them!

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 days ago (7 children)

8K content is too storage hungry. My pirate ship is already bursting at the seams with some 4K but mostly 1080. I have 130TB of media, if it was in 8K I would need a water cooled server farm.

That's the REAL reason for lack of 8K interest, the pirates are not demanding it. Not until 100TB drives are available for a reasonable price.

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[–] glibg@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Here I am still downloading the 720p versions of movies and not minding at all. If I want hyper resolution imagery I just go outside.

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