• saltesc@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    My TV is 4K and I wouldn’t know if I’m watching something in 4K or not unless I was scrutinising it. Especially the attrocious bitrates services stream their 4K at. I do notice 720 is a bit “fuzzy”, but that’s about it.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah 720 vs 1080 is very noticeable. I will say even 1440 has its place for specific types of displays.

      But it all comes down to distance I think, the closer you are to the display the more the pixel density influences your experience; refresh rate is impactful at any distance and resolution

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      8 months ago

      Maybe because your TV is too small?

      4k is not about a sharper picture, neither was 1080p. The sharpness was already good enough. The point of the increase in resolution is larger TVs at the same sharpness. Back when I had an SD TV it was 576p on a 28” screen. When I moved on to 1080p I got a 50” TV. Notice how the size and the resolution increase are in the same ballpark. Now with 2160p I have a 77” TV, so there is still a little wiggle room. I could get to 100” at 4k before I would have to consider 8k.

      TVs got larger over the years, and that was made possible by the increase in resolution. There is still some room for growth in 4k.

    • Séra Balázs@lemmy.worldOP
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      I always use the resolution above my screen’s on youtube, because the bitrate’s so bad, and the difference is very very noticable on monitors