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We have to stop talking about resolution only in terms of being able to see pixels. Not being able to see pixels is not the final limit to human vision. If it w

We have to stop talking about resolution only in terms of being able to see pixels. Not being able to see pixels is not the final limit to human vision. If it was 4k monitors and TVs would have never become a thing. There are other aspects like seeing aliasing or the blurriness introduced by antialiasing that is a particular challenge to small text and very well perceptible well beyond the point where you can spot individual pixels. It's incidentally also something Apple pointed out as the strength of the Vision Pro. So I wonder, how does the perceived sharpness compare to other Pro branded products by Apple?

crazygringo 3y ago
Do you have an authoritative source to back up that claim, with examples that separate the effect you're claiming? When I can't see pixels, it sure seems to me that I've reached the limit. Antialiasing isn't blurriness once you can no longer distinguish pixels, it's just how vision works. The "blurriness" of the source matches the blurriness of the eye so any additional sharpness is a waste.
acdha 3y ago
> Not being able to see pixels is not the final limit to human vision. If it was 4k monitors and TVs would have never become a thing. Can you expand this idea? I thought 4K became popular because it was easy to see pixels at lower resolutions.
- crazygringo 3y ago
  You're quite correct, in a movie theater or on a large TV the pixels in 1080p content are very easy to see. 4K is precisely for these cases.
jbc1 3y ago
I can make out pixels on 4k monitors let alone 4k televisions. If you believe pixels stop being visible at some pixel density below 4k televisions, you may have bad eyesight and have not realised because its not "need glasses to be able to read" bad.
- aitchnyu 3y ago
  I felt let down by my 5k/218 ppi screen when most of my messaging apps cant render my native language clearly at default text size. Next one will have mobile-like or higher ppi counts.

crazygringo 3y ago

Do you have an authoritative source to back up that claim, with examples that separate the effect you're claiming? When I can't see pixels, it sure seems to me that I've reached the limit. Antialiasing isn't blurriness once you can no longer distinguish pixels, it's just how vision works. The "blurriness" of the source matches the blurriness of the eye so any additional sharpness is a waste.

acdha 3y ago

> Not being able to see pixels is not the final limit to human vision. If it was 4k monitors and TVs would have never become a thing. Can you expand this idea? I thought 4K became popular because it was easy to see pixels at lower resolutions.

crazygringo 3y ago
You're quite correct, in a movie theater or on a large TV the pixels in 1080p content are very easy to see. 4K is precisely for these cases.

jbc1 3y ago

I can make out pixels on 4k monitors let alone 4k televisions. If you believe pixels stop being visible at some pixel density below 4k televisions, you may have bad eyesight and have not realised because its not "need glasses to be able to read" bad.

aitchnyu 3y ago
I felt let down by my 5k/218 ppi screen when most of my messaging apps cant render my native language clearly at default text size. Next one will have mobile-like or higher ppi counts.