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Working in entertainment and broadcasting, you learn barely half of Americans have a 4K tv and it’s under half worldwide. Marketing makes you think that “everyone is doing it”
I think it is pc gamers who get the most out of TVs funny enough. Particularly when it comes to framerate, since I was enjoying 60 fps while 2 consoles generations passed with 30 fps being the standard. And when 120 hz came out I was enjoying 120 hz on some titles with freesync before the PS5 came out.
But, for average tv/movie watchers streaming stuff as well as console gamers prior to PS5 lot of the features of 4k TVs weren't fully utilized.
Most enterprise places are 1080p default and reqi people to go above and beyond to justify 4k screens.
Then we get into laptop's still barely going about 720p so a lot of people have no idea what 4k would even bring them as even most streaming content still only in 1080 so not really noticeable for those who even have 4k screens
Wait, half have 4k‽
I don't own a single 4k. Have four 1080p dumb TV's. I will get a new one when one of these dies.
Out of all the displays in the house, there's only one 4k computer monitor. The dumb tv is a 1080p, my other monitor is a 720p, then my partner has a DVI and a VGA monitor for his computer.
I didn't include monitors but nope still no 4k's Two 32 inch curved 1080p montitors plus a few 24 AIO computers.
Broadcast towers put out 1080p and satellite broadcasts 1080i. Filmmakers/streaming standard is 1080p. As a filmmaker (producer/ cinematographer) and broadcaster operator, you’re always encoding to scale down due to bandwidth and/or majority of the incapable most due to FCC rules/cost.
Even the bargain basement ones with horrible pictures have 4k resolution these days
Think it is an economy of scale issue.
I'm still using a 1080p TV and I only plan to replace it if it breaks.
If you do, smart TVs are dumb and forgot how to TV