• bdonvr@thelemmy.club
    15·
    9 days ago

    8k has no place in the home. Anywhere, really.

    When a single movie is hundreds of gigabytes it doesn’t fit on existing home media standards and the marked for physical media is dying too much for anyone to make a new one. Plus, streaming services are definitely not gonna jump on that kind of bandwidth usage. Unless they compress the shit out of it and lower the bitrate at which point while technically 8k you would probably see a decent 4k Bluray exceed the quality.

    • hydrashok@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      9 days ago

      Honestly a decent 1080p presentation is still more than adequate for the vast majority of content consumed at most homes. Otherwise completely agree.

      • undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch
        1·
        9 days ago

        I used to heavily disagree with this, but since I started ripping both 1080p and UHD Blu-rays losslessly (AKA, just dump their decrypted contents) I’ve been blown away with what can be done in 1080p — my most recent example would be Severance. My only gripe is that it isn’t HDR10+ but I can live with it.

    • neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      9 days ago

      I for the life of me don’t even care about 4k. 1080p to me is as good as it gets, sometimes I watch shows in 720p and occasionally even 480p if it’s a significantly smaller file.

      • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 days ago

        The higher the quality, the more fake CGI and special effects look. All the insane contrast, colors, details, it’s all so extremity fake and unreal. Plus, when you’re used to 4k and see something in 1080p, it looks shit. If you’re used to 1080p, it looks great.

    • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      8k just doesn’t make sense. I can understand it as a monitor if it has some good upscaling capabilities. But yeah, 8k content just seems silly.

    • bran_buckler@lemmy.world
      16·
      10 days ago

      8k is a screen resolution, so his New Year’s resolution is 8k as though maybe they just upgraded their tv/monitor (or they’re just rubbing it in as 8k is a higher res than most people have), where normally a New Year’s resolution is something where someone is trying to improve themselves in the new year (such as walking 10k steps every day, losing 10lbs, eating out less often, or learning a new skill, etc)

      • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.orgEnglish
        62·
        10 days ago

        I thought maybe it was because 8K is mostly useful for TVs that are like 77" and larger, and for 99% of people 4k is higher than they’d ever practically need. Also, good luck driving video games at 8K res. Thus it is a shit post.

      • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        10 days ago

        I can’t tell if you got down voted for explaining the joke or before those people don’t understand the joke.

        Probably best to assume they are morons.

        • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
          2·
          9 days ago

          I dunno, I’ve just come to accept some people are cranky and down vote because they feel like it, but also too that while something makes sense to me it may not be as palatable across the board ¯\(ツ)/¯