Post #2762640

2026-02-04 08:12 UTC

The only market for 8k is movie theaters and megatrons. It’s absolutely not necessary to have it in your tv in your house. And it’s also insanely expensive to get the proper hardware to drive it at full resolution.

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@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2026-02-04 08:45

> And it’s also insanely expensive to get the proper hardware to drive it at full resolution. The shame being 8K (as 2x4K or even more) is awesome for VR headsets, but the only things capable of really driving them are stupidly expensive (thanks NVIDIA) or dual card setups (thanks Mobo producers for making that bad, and CPU manufacturers who insist consumers only need 20-24 PCIe lanes to artificially segment the market, sigh).

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@MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2026-02-04 08:51

Most cinemas are 2k as well I think

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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-02-04 11:09

Even there it's wasted. There is just no place between pixel density, size and distance for anythng much over 4k. Humans can only see that sharp. Except maybe video walls, where you don't see the whole image at once.

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@Deceptichum@quokk.au 2026-02-04 10:20

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