Study Boldly Claims 4K And 8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes, But Is It True?
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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.

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 :)

  • wizzor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    141·
    23 hours ago

    I can barely tell the difference between 720p and 1080p. I will probably never buy another TV.

    Maybe I need glasses?

    • Lumidaub@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      16 hours ago

      I do wear glasses and I came here to post exactly your first sentence. There probably is a difference, sure, but I personally can’t see it unless I put both files next to each other and really try to see it.

      I’ve been digitising our movie collection so I played around with resolutions to minimise the storage space needed - I did settle on doing everything in 1080p but mostly because it feels weird to use a resolution the internet tells me is bad and I’m vulnerable to peer pressure (voice in the back of my head “oooh but what if anyone ever looks at those files?? What’ll they think???” type nonsense).

      I also had a few files that came in much higher resolution that I re-encoded to fractions of their file sizes and honestly same effect.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      20 hours ago

      Yeah, I can definitely tell the difference between 720p and 1080p, but the difference isn’t so large as to make me use it everywhere, so I default to 720p unless I need a bit more definition (usually for text).

      My TV is 4k but I can’t remember the last time I actually displayed 4k content, almost everything we have is old DVDs (so 480p?) and 1080p Blurays. I don’t see the point in paying extra for Ultra HD when the picture isn’t that much better at our viewing distance.

    • Fondots@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      22 hours ago

      I’m pretty much in the same boat, 720p looks fine to me in the vast majority of cases, and while I’m not great at going to my eye doctor regularly, the last time I had my vision checked it was fine, and it was right around the time I was shopping for a new TV and upgraded from 1080 to 4k, and still had a 720p in my bedroom.

      If I looked really hard at them, I could tell the difference from the 720 to the 4k, but truth be told, I’m just not scrutinizing the picture quality of my TV that much.

    • Electric@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      23 hours ago

      I was like that too before I got glasses (I knew I had vision issues, but not how severe it was). I can’t stand 720p anymore.

    • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
      21·
      23 hours ago

      If you haven’t been tested, or are a couple years overdue, yeah probably. If you put a new 4k TV (with an actual 4k video, not Netflix) side by side with you current one, you’d notice. Especially if it’s OLED, because they can turn off the emitters to make blacks actually black.