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The EU is banning 8K TV's!!!

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tom66:
Perhaps you could ban 8K on anything below say 70" screen size.  That just doesn't work in the majority of living rooms, but those who are really keen to have a ridiculously large screen at ultra high resolution can still get one and pay the premium. 

Meanwhile anything 40" and below for 4K could be restricted unless it is classified as a monitor (there is already a definition for tax purposes - usually it is without anything but computer video inputs, no RC controller, no speakers, no smart functions etc...)

I suspect the market will self regulate though.  8K will be far too expensive to make it into the consumer space for some time.

MK14:

--- Quote from: tom66 on November 07, 2022, 05:16:38 pm ---Perhaps you could ban 8K on anything below say 70" screen size.  That just doesn't work in the majority of living rooms, but those who are really keen to have a ridiculously large screen at ultra high resolution can still get one and pay the premium.

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The problem with that, is that early (affordable) 8k TVs, may only be viable, in sizes, well below 70" screen sizes.

E.g. A while back, OLED's, were only available for purchase, at VERY small screen sizes.  I can't remember exactly, but it was something like 12" (I think Techmoan's video channel, obtained one of the smallest/first ones, for filming), by Sony, if I remember correctly.  Also, it was extremely expensive at the time.
So if there had been a rule, that only 70" and bigger, OLED TVs are allowed.  Then that would have seriously hindered OLED TVs, coming to the EU, for a long while, at least.

EDIT: This seems to be the video I was referring to:

PlainName:

--- Quote from: MK14 on November 07, 2022, 05:16:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: PlainName on November 07, 2022, 04:49:15 pm ---How do you 'strongly encourage' without mandating? That kind of thing didn't work during the pandemic, and if people can't manage that when lives could depend on it what chance do you have when their entertainment is at stake?

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Designing such laws, (Government/EU funded/created Adverts), and things.  Would indeed (probably) need the efforts of a huge team(s), of people.  With various skills/backgrounds and abilities.  So I can't when making a 5 minute (wild estimate) forum post, really on my own, do the topic justice, and specify such new laws/policies/adverts etc.

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Yes, I am not asking you to make up some law on the spot. I am pointing out that laws mandate things. 'Strongly recommend' and similar are not laws. See, for instance, the Highway Code where there is 'should' for strong recommendations and 'must' for laws, and generally the 'should's are given lip service by many drivers, if they can even be arsed to manage that.

james_s:

--- Quote from: PlainName on November 07, 2022, 04:49:15 pm ---How do you 'strongly encourage' without mandating? That kind of thing didn't work during the pandemic, and if people can't manage that when lives could depend on it what chance do you have when their entertainment is at stake?

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Tax inefficient items, use some of the revenue to subsidize higher efficiency products.

MadScientist:

--- Quote from: unknownparticle on November 02, 2022, 03:42:25 pm ---
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--- Quote from: Monkeh on November 02, 2022, 03:14:45 pm ---Oh no. Some power hungry TVs which are needlessly high resolution won't be for sale to the tiny slice of the market which spends excessive amounts of money on them. I will have a good cry over this.

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And when they come for you?  When some moron limits your tea kettle to 500 watts?

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I think that unlikely.

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Really!  Maybe not that specific thing, and it's a kettle by the way, not a tea kettle!  Tea pot and kettle, two things ;)
This is the problem with the EU, it's the nanny state gone mad!  No, in the grand scheme a restriction on 8K TV's is not the end of the world, but gradually losing more and more freedom of choice is. As per the old phrase, it's the thin end of the wedge. And the excuse used is the climate change crisis, which is BS.  The climate is in continual change, nothing humanity can do about it.  CO2 is the gas of life, converted by greenery to oxygen!  And remember this, every living, oxygen breathing life form exhales CO2, so what next, a breathing restriction?!

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The uk is the ultimate nanny state , the EU has a long way to go.

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