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Study: No Point Upgrading to 8K Unless You're Right up Close

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At average living room distances, 8K displays offer "no distinguishable benefit" over 4K ones, writes Nicola Davis at The Guardian. Moreover, even 4K ones offer "no noticeable beneit over a similarly-sized 2K screen." In other words, there is no tangible difference when it comes to how sharp an image appears to our eyes. — Read the rest The post Study: no point upgrading to 8K unless you're right up close appeared first on Boing Boing.

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The market has increasingly options for television, with surprisingly high resolutions. In front of a wide range of offers, a new study sought to see if the Ultra HD models, for example, are...

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Is a high-resolution TV worth it? A scientific study shows that this isn't always the case and that other things matter - on macitynet.it The race for TV resolution clashes with the human eye

News from HD Technology. Visit www.hd-tecnologia.com for the latest news. Manufacturers continue to launch TVs with Ultra HD screens, 8K and higher. But research from Cambridge University suggests that much of that race for resolution is unnecessary. The reason is simple, the human eye has a natural limit of resolution. The British team sought to determine how many pixels we are really able to distinguish. To do this, they used a 4K monitor adju…

Whether we are going to watch multimedia content or if our intention is to play video games, the resolution has become an important aspect that is found in both media. In fact, we agree when we say that we are going to watch a movie in Full HD or play 1080p, because this resolution is the most popular. This is followed by the 4K that although it is a huge leap and we would consider that 2K is better, the audiovisual content goes from 1080p to 4K…

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01net broke the news in on Thursday, October 30, 2025.
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