8K not the future?

[casper_uk]

I can't see 8k becoming normal anytime soon. They need to start with 4k first at a decent bit rate in the UK. We are far behind when you think about places like Korea and Japan.

 

[Felon]

I designed the data centre network for one of the largest streaming platforms at the time, around 12 years ago and back then, one problem was the amount of bandwidth required to stream all of the different formats (sd, hd, 1080, iphone, TV, ipad etc), especially from the CDN perspective.

The bitrate for 8k is so much more that nobody really wants to handle it at scale, everybody streaming native 8k content would absolutely smash CDN and infrastructure bandwidth, for relatively little gain when it's difficult to tell the difference between 4k/8k.

Then there's the production side, filming it, storing it - editing it all at 8k native is not trivial, it's hard and it's expensive - so nobody really wants to do it.

 

[Rroff]

Human eye can't see more than 30fps anyway

Something which always gets missed on this subject is the difference between a true 30, 60, etc. FPS experience and reality when it comes to things like frame pacing, pixel response and in interactive situations latency, etc. and the need for higher rates of FPS and/or Hz to reproduce a consistent experience.

 

[theone8181]

Seems to be a growing number of people who are all about OLED now though instead of size.
There is a definate FOMO factor about OLED and its very clear in TV threads on this forum also.

I jumped on the bandwagon a few years ago, but oled isn't without it's issues. 1 big one is that since dark is off unlike grey on an LCD, some videos games become very different to play in a bright room (or even during the day). Cost is another big one, I went 65, but really the 77 would have been a better size due to distance (or 83, but not sure I could have swung that one by the mrs ). The 77 was double the cost of my 65 so that put me off. I didn't think it was that much more for bigger LCDs, but I could be wrong.