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#5938540 Posted on: 08/16/2021 09:14 PM
Yeah, too bad. 4k just doesnt cut it anymore.
no 8k 60 still
Yeah, too bad. 4k just doesnt cut it anymore.
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#5938542 Posted on: 08/16/2021 09:22 PM
Tbh if I was going 80"+ on a TV i'd pretty much want 8K at this point. My brother in law has a 4K projector (VW715ES) which he puts up on a 120" screen and while the scale is impressive the detail definitely starts to degrade.
I'm sure the number of people it effects is like 12 but if you want 8K60 it's kind of frustrating that AMD supports it via HDMI but their decoder simply can't handle it.
Yeah, too bad. 4k just doesnt cut it anymore.
Tbh if I was going 80"+ on a TV i'd pretty much want 8K at this point. My brother in law has a 4K projector (VW715ES) which he puts up on a 120" screen and while the scale is impressive the detail definitely starts to degrade.
I'm sure the number of people it effects is like 12 but if you want 8K60 it's kind of frustrating that AMD supports it via HDMI but their decoder simply can't handle it.
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#5938555 Posted on: 08/16/2021 09:56 PM
Tbh if I was going 80"+ on a TV i'd pretty much want 8K at this point. My brother in law has a 4K projector (VW715ES) which he puts up on a 120" screen and while the scale is impressive the detail definitely starts to degrade.
I'm sure the number of people it effects is like 12 but if you want 8K60 it's kind of frustrating that AMD supports it via HDMI but their decoder simply can't handle it.
Hey no fair, you are thinking rationally here
. Have seen quite a few on this forum where size/distance does not matter and where 8k even on a 32" PC monitor is desirable.
Tbh if I was going 80"+ on a TV i'd pretty much want 8K at this point. My brother in law has a 4K projector (VW715ES) which he puts up on a 120" screen and while the scale is impressive the detail definitely starts to degrade.
I'm sure the number of people it effects is like 12 but if you want 8K60 it's kind of frustrating that AMD supports it via HDMI but their decoder simply can't handle it.
Hey no fair, you are thinking rationally here
. Have seen quite a few on this forum where size/distance does not matter and where 8k even on a 32" PC monitor is desirable.
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#5938560 Posted on: 08/16/2021 10:09 PM
Tbh if I was going 80"+ on a TV i'd pretty much want 8K at this point. My brother in law has a 4K projector (VW715ES) which he puts up on a 120" screen and while the scale is impressive the detail definitely starts to degrade.
I'm sure the number of people it effects is like 12 but if you want 8K60 it's kind of frustrating that AMD supports it via HDMI but their decoder simply can't handle it.
If only a 4k signal was a 4k signal.
A bad 4k signal can easily be worse then a 1080p and a good 4k signal can be better then a bad 8k.
Replaced my mediacenter APU because the new codec was too demanding, before I could run 1080p no problem, but the new codecs only allowed me to run 720p and all the way down to 420p if 720p was a 60hz only.
Codec and compression makes a big difference.
Tbh if I was going 80"+ on a TV i'd pretty much want 8K at this point. My brother in law has a 4K projector (VW715ES) which he puts up on a 120" screen and while the scale is impressive the detail definitely starts to degrade.
I'm sure the number of people it effects is like 12 but if you want 8K60 it's kind of frustrating that AMD supports it via HDMI but their decoder simply can't handle it.
If only a 4k signal was a 4k signal.
A bad 4k signal can easily be worse then a 1080p and a good 4k signal can be better then a bad 8k.
Replaced my mediacenter APU because the new codec was too demanding, before I could run 1080p no problem, but the new codecs only allowed me to run 720p and all the way down to 420p if 720p was a 60hz only.
Codec and compression makes a big difference.
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no 8k 60 still