• yogurtwrong@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Why would the medical field need 8k screens? They can just zoom in on a lower res display y’know? Nobody is looking at a screen with a magnifying glass

    I think a possible application for 8k displays is the huge displays where the viewer is extremely close to the display. But that would still just be the same pixel density as a lower res display.

    Another area I think high pixel density might be useful for is patterning. Like PCB manufacturing and other photoresist stuff. But that’s a problem already solved by much cheaper technologies

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      11 days ago

      Why would the medical field need 8k screens?

      I’d rather the doctor performing life-saving surgery not have screen resolution being an inhibition. I’d rather they have the best tools and resources available.

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        11 days ago

        Oh come on most doctors still view stuff like scans on 720p VGA screens. It’s fine. High resolution imaging is important not hi res viewers.

        This is like saying you need to have a 128k screen to view electron microscope images

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          11 days ago

          But the doctor needs to see every quark and gluon in your molecules! How did they perform heart transplants in the 1960s! Please don’t get in the way of technophiles inventing all kinds of fantasy scenarios to justify their hoarder-like behavior.

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          10 days ago

          High resolution imaging is important not hi res viewers.

          You’re probably right in like 99.999999999999999999999999999999999% of cases, but I’d want to ensure we could save that extra 0.000000000000000000000000000000001%. I’d sacrifice anything and everything for just one more day with my loved ones. So, its probably overkill, but I’d rather screen resolution not being the thing that costs me time with those I care about.