"No duh" -Most humans, since ever
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Given how much time I spend actually looking at the screen while the show/movie is on, it might as well be in ca. 2000 RealVideo 160x120 resolution.
I’m supposed to be watching Haunted Hotel right now. It’s on, but here we are…
It depends on how far away you sit. But streaming has taken over everything and even a little compression ruins the perceived image quality of a higher-DPI display.
But they are much better for energy companies
If you’ve ever connected a laptop or PC to a television as a monitor, the benefit of 4K for text readability is incredibly apparent.
If this isn’t your use case, and you’re not right up against your screen, 1080p is more than good enough; not like most content is coming down on 4K unless you’re paying extra, anyways.
My PC is on a 40" TV at 1920 x 1080. Looks great to me, and my eyes aren't so hot.
I stick with 1080p for my Jellyfin library because I can’t really tell much difference on my living room TV between upscaled 1080p and native 4k, at least not enough to merit the huge difference in file size. 4k games when sitting close to my computer monitor, on the other hand, are definitely worth it.
They did get around to saying it's pixel density at the end...
But still, it's human variation. Everybody is gonna be different. I'm not a resolution snob, but anything under 100fps pulls me out of the experience. So usually I just run at 1440, when I have fps to spare I'll put all the settings up rather than go to 4k.
Other people would rather 30fps at 4 or even 8k
That's why I have a 65" and sit barely 2m from it. Stick on a 4k Dolby Vision encoded file through Jellyfin. Looks fucking great!
I thought this was known. I personally never see a difference between 1080p and 4K, and its great cuz it saves me money :)