• djdarren@piefed.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    52
    ·
    14 days ago

    My 55" 4K OLED LG is the single greatest TV panel I’ve ever looked at. I can’t determine any individual pixels, the blacks are black. I have no issues with it in the slightest. And I see absolutely no reason why any TV of that size should need 4x more pixel density (or whatever it is).

    • madcaesar@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      18
      ·
      14 days ago

      Yea same. But I fucking DESPISE the LG remote. Holy shit whoever thought about putting a fucking trackpad as the main navigation element needs to burn in hell.

      • djdarren@piefed.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        14 days ago

        Yeah, it’s not great.

        Luckily, we do 99% of our viewing through an Apple TV, and we have a soundbar, so the ATV remote covers basically everything we need.

          • djdarren@piefed.social
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            14 days ago

            Not the current gen. Well, it can act as a trackpad, but that’s not the primary input method. The previous gen, however, did have a trackpad. Again, it could be clicked, but it was generally shittier. The current remote is actually pretty nice.

    • kameecoding@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      38
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      14 days ago

      Not sure what the manufacturers were thinking, this chart has existed for a long time, you have to be sitting pretty close or looking at a rather large screen for 8K to make sense

        • olympicyes@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          7
          ·
          13 days ago

          1440p screens are all monitors you sit 2-4’ from. That close you can justify a higher resolution but people pick 1440p for other reasons like frame rate.

      • Hazzard@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        14
        ·
        edit-2
        14 days ago

        Yeah, most people aren’t within 6 feet of their TV, and most people aren’t buying 100" TVs either. 8K is relevant for virtually nobody.

        A lot of companies are successfully working on larger panels (I saw something about a 165" TV recently), so 8K may have a good place in a theatre room one day, but that still leaves you a lot of problems to solve first, and is far from mainstream until all of that becomes a lot cheaper.

        • djdarren@piefed.social
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          12
          ·
          14 days ago

          We bought a 60" LG LCD first. It was too big for our living room, so when the backlight went faulty and we were offered a refund we chopped it in for the 55" OLED, which is basically perfect for our room.

          Turns out 5" really can make a difference.