Even if it was, the streamings everyone's using crush down the bitrate so bad it'd barely look better than 4k anyway.
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Yeh, do: 60fps, 30 bit color... and I guess HDR?
Do things that people can actually appreciate.
And do them in the way that utilises the new tech. 60fps looks completely different from 24fps... Work with that, it's a new media format. Express your talent
Sorry, the best I can do is install a camera and microphone on our next model, to spy on you and force interaction with advertisements.
I mean video conferencing from your living room. How neat is that?
Well, when NFL broadcasts on 720 or 1080i, an 8k tv isn't going to make that look better. Even a prime subscription only gets you 4k.
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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
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Make a TV that can accurately reproduce really high contrast ratios and don't put any pointless software on it. Display the image from the source with as much fidelity as possible, supporting all modern display technology like VRR.
That's all I want from a display.
OLED and 4k is where it's at.
Hell, OLED and high bitrate 1080 is probably good enough for me for the rest of my life.
Shitrate 4k and 1080p are all you get on streaming platforms. Hard to get good quality bitrates outside of I guess bluray and piracy.
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Next big technological innovation will be good looking and fast working e- ink TVs.
I doubt this. I use an e-ink android tablet as an e-reader. I like that it's easy on the eyes. For using it to scroll Lemmy or even a web page, it's fine. But the refresh rate (even on the best settings) makes watching a video or gif on it painful.
I don't think anyone really wants an e-ink TV unless they want something that's a hybrid. The things you'd use a tv for are just not e-ink things.
This makes sense to me. A hybrid would be nice. Have a calendar or some art while it's "off". But then, that's probably pretty expensive. (Not that I've looked, I'm just assuming.)
I remember the horrendous response times of the original GameBoy’s LCD panel, and when I mentally compare it to modern COLOUR panels…
…all I can think is, never say never!
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Hmm I have considered this, and I think it is ads beamed straight to the eyeball
- The TV industry... Probably
8K is theoretically good as “spare resolution,” for instance running variable resolution in games and scaling everything to it, displaying photos with less scaling for better sharpness, clearer text rendering, less flickering, stuff like that.
It’s not worth paying for. Mostly. But maybe some day it will be cheap enough to just “include” with little extra cost, kinda like how 4K TVs or 1440p monitors are cheap now.
Also, we haven’t even got HDR figured out.
I’m still struggling to export some of my older RAWs to HDR. Heck, Lemmy doesn’t support JPEG XL, AVIF, TIFF, HEIF, nothing, so I couldn’t even post them here anyway. And even then, they’d probably only render right in Safari.
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