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Apr 28, 2020 10 min

8K TV Is A Joke

from Jetpacks Are Overrated: a technology show

Seamus gets his (rather polite) rant on about 8K TV. Why you don't need it in your living room. Why it's just not viable on multiple fronts. But why this also means it's a brilliant time to buy a television! Because a 4K TV is likely to be the longest lasting television purchase you’ll make since the cathode ray era. Here's a great guide to the science of TV sizing and resolution: https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-size/size-to-distance-relationship And here's a Hollywood study showing that there was no discernible difference for our eyeballrs: https://www.techhive.com/article/3529913/8k-vs-4k-tvs-most-consumers-cannot-tell-the-difference.html

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