Who only 16k for a camera sensor

LoneTree1 wrote:

Guy Parsons wrote:

Mark Ransom wrote:

My point is that a 1MP picture scaled up will look horrible, but a 16MP picture scaled up will be indistinguishable from a native resolution picture on a 8K TV.

From my tests with 4K, that 1MP image scaled up looks good at normal viewing distance, at 2 feet away I can see that it's 1MP. Just checked my good test image is actually 1.2MP and it looks great, when I crop to fit better it would be 1MP and still looks great.

There's a point of diminishing returns, and we've reached it.

The returns diminish when you get too close to the screen. Sit back at beer and pop-corn consuming distance and images from 1MP to 100MP will look just fine on that lovely new 8K TV.

The TV shops advise that best viewing is from 1.5 times the screen height and that is ludicrous, it's simply far too close for normal viewing and patently stupid for two or more people. Though the "experts" seem to say 2x height is acceptable.

If you are one of those people who sit 10ft from a TV screen, you might as well stick with HD and get a better quality TV with higher refresh rates. Simple fact is, humans have a set eye resolution and 4K from any distance beyond 6ft or so is indistinguishable from HD and 8K is just too much resolution unless you sit 3ft from the screen.

I feel the biggest impact for me would be the size of the screen such as going from 40 inch to 55 or 65 inch screen.

Brian