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Consider this: 4K DCP, which is just a little larger than consumer 4K (4096x2160 vs 3840x2160) is good enough to project on 40 foot movie theater screens. 8K i
by xienze 8y ago
Consider this: 4K DCP, which is just a little larger than consumer 4K (4096x2160 vs 3840x2160) is good enough to project on 40 foot movie theater screens. 8K is FOUR TIMES that consumer 4K resolution. The benefit of that resolution on a 65 inch screen is, uh, negligible.
- jjeaff 8y agoRight, but the size of the screen is irrelevant if you don't also take into account the distance you sit from that screen. An 8k 360 degree immersive environment might not be quite enough resulution to get fine detail if you were looking at it through a VR headset.
- hunter2_ 8y agoI think the short way to say this is viewing angle. If you're seated where the angle between one edge and the opposite edge is more than a typical situation, then you'll want more than typical DPI and thus resolution. One rule if thumb I recall hearing is that the TV diagonal size should be about 1/3 to 1/2 the viewing distance. I'd need to brush up on my trig to get degrees from that.
- reaperducer 8y agoI'm gonna need a bigger living room.
- giobox 8y agoCounter-intuitively perhaps, many of the benefits of 8K become readily apparent on tiny screens intended for use directly in front of one’s eyes, such as VR/AR headsets. Discussions of resolution against screen size are meaningless without consideration of viewing distance.
- piadodjanho 8y agoFor VR/AR the most important feature is be pixel density
- earenndil 8y agoI thought for VR it was refresh rate?
- jobigoud 8y agoThe refresh rate of the current generation of headsets is already enough for what we need. The next bottlenecks on the road to human vison like experience are peripheral field of view, pixel density and vergence-accomodation conflict.
- baddox 8y agoBut have you ever seen a film captured and projected in true 70mm IMAX? The difference between that and 4K DCP is immense.
- ksec 8y agoYes in Movie Theatre. But not at home.