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Just because technology can do something, doent meant its always right

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tom66:
Exactly, it's a hack that makes a lower resolution display appear prettier and more comfortable to view, by distributing the higher frequency information across adjacent pixels and making the sharp edges more comfortable to look at.

But once you go over the resolution limit of the optic system, its irrelevant.  It is all in the rolloff, which at least for me appears somewhat only very slightly past 4K resolution. YMMV, but I doubt anyone that has 20-20 vision will be much different.

I cannot see any need for 16K, except for 120"+ displays.  Even in a cinema, I would have thought 8K would be approaching the optics limit.  My 4K monitors fill, I would say, about 60% of my optic field.  If we assume that the limit is 5K based on my test, and we want to fill 100% of the visual field, like a cinema screen, then we would cap out around 8-9K.  Obviously, everyone has different experiences, but I can't say I can perceive the resolution at my local cinemaplex which advertises that it uses RGB DLP 4K projectors.

bd139:
Yep.

Cinema, photography and video probably doesn't matter past 8k unless the screen is huge. For most, 4k is probably fine. I'm quite happy with it for video.

However text, line art and information presentation is another thing. One reason paper looks so good is the resolution and dynamic range is pretty damn high. Which is why we need to build better monitors. Might as well get free TVs while we're at it out of the panels.

Actually no it works the other way round. People buy pointless TVs and this drives the panel price down and eventually we get nice monitors for a reasonable price. Although reasonable price seems to have stopped at 4k which is sad.

magic:
This thread reminds me much of audiophoolery.

It will become 10 pages of "debate" about the limits of vision and virtues of "analog smoothness", and not a single result of an actual blind test will be presented, whether carried out by you or by anyone else :P

bd139:
Unlike audiofoolery this is very well defined and isn’t a niche market so I’m not sure what your point is?

magic:
Yes, it's very well defined by "I can clearly see a difference" and "I can clearly prove that you can't" :-DD

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