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I can't tell if you're being deliberately obtuse.
You have 4x more pixels so you don't render 12 pt font, you render 24 pt font and get a lot more definition.
Absolutely nobody is or has ever claimed the same 512x512 image looks better on a 4K vs a 640x800 LED.
I am not being deliberately obtuse. If I am obtuse, it's genuine. But I don't think I am.
That's the thing. On 800x600 monitors, 12pt font wasn't small text. It was the default. The norm. You could read it just fine. We're not making small text easier to read, we're just re-defining what small text is.
No. But they are claiming that 4K images look better than 1024x1024 images, which is true, but the returns are severally diminished. 1 million pixels is enough.