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Is it actually possible to buy a 28" 8K monitor or TV yet?

Aegis said:
Unless you're planning on opening your own IMAX theatre (12k horizontal) - I just don't see the point...
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I think its fair to consider large screens. I have a 75in 4k and it's beautiful but when I go into the bedroom and watch the 55in 1080p Sammy that's much closer to me, the experience is comparable. My ideal lounge size would be around 100in for my viewing range, at a guess by that size there would be noticeable image quality reduction at 4k. So I do think that on this upper end of tv sizes there's some use for 8 and 16k. But beyond that I don't see it. I'm not sure what point there would be in 32k or above outside of huge cinemas.

So what then lol
 
8K is pretty good, but I'd say be mindful of all the gimmicks that are out right now. A lot of screens pretend to be 8K but in the end you're not really getting that 8K crispness because ultimately we're still very early for 8K displays. Talking about Contrast Modulation and the like, but not only, you need to do a lot of research for these displays to make sure you're not getting hood-winked. Technically you're getting 8K but the actual quality is more like 4K Plus.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/what-is-real-8k-tv/
 
Poneros said:
8K is pretty good, but I'd say be mindful of all the gimmicks that are out right now. A lot of screens pretend to be 8K but in the end you're not really getting that 8K crispness because ultimately we're still very early for 8K displays. Talking about Contrast Modulation and the like, but not only, you need to do a lot of research for these displays to make sure you're not getting hood-winked. Technically you're getting 8K but the actual quality is more like 4K Plus.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/what-is-real-8k-tv/
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8k screens with low CM values like Samsung TVs still have 8k pixels (33 million) so no one can sue them for lying - but the human eye is not a machine, it is not perfect and our eyes are highly sensitive to tricks and distortions - one of those is CM, the amount of black space between each pixel, the greater the CM value the better contrast our eyes think the picture has - it's not that the low CM Samsung has any worse picture it's that out eyes think it has a worse picture because of the distortion.

Last year, there were lots of people doing side by side comparisons saying that LG's 4K OLED's had sharper, clearer and crisper images than Samsung 8k screens - and that shouldn't be the case if you forget about CM - but to human eyes, CM plays a huge part in what we think is good image quality - so a lower resolution high CM screens looks better than a higher resolution low CM screen



 
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I cant fathom why anybody would want an 8K screen now?? There is next to no content for it.
At 28", you would also need some serious display scaling to be able to see anything. From a review I watched a year or so ago looking at a Dell 8K monitor, many applications don't even scale well yet with that size.

I personally don't even like having a 4K screen, because I prefer to run with no Windows scaling. At 100% on 4K, its just all a bit too small.

For gaming, I cant see 8K native being possible at a reasonable framerate for a long time. So its all going to be DLSS/FSR tech.

And just a LoL at people talking about 16k.... you realise just how much extra pixels that jump is right? Its 4x 8K.... can you imagine the GPU power needed to render that? Even DLSS to the hilt?
And is there ANY content filmed high enough for that?
 
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