Somehow, we grew content with 1080p television. I'm not sure why, the ($20-80k) 4K televisions that I've seen are substantially more impressive than the 1080p c

Somehow, we grew content with 1080p television. I'm not sure why, the ($20-80k) 4K televisions that I've seen are substantially more impressive than the 1080p counterparts, even at 12 feet away. Resolution really stalled out on the larger screens, until people realized how nice 'retina' is on the screens that they keep 1 foot away from their face. Smartphones are finally starting to hit resolutions that match the upper limits of the human eye, and people are finally starting to want that on larger screens. I imagine that once monitors have started to max out the human eye, there's going to be a much larger push for higher resolution TVs. I'm still surprised that TV resolution stalled out for so long, but I think that 4K TV will be the future (eventually). The eye is good enough to see that many pixels.