A new study published in Nature by University of Cambridge researchers just dropped a pixelated bomb on the entire Ultra-HD market, but as anyone with myopia can tell you, if you take your glasses off, even SD still looks pretty good :)

  • Sauvandu60@lemmy.ml
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    16 hours ago

    i suspect screen size would make the difference. you won’t notice 4K or 8K on small screens.

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      14 hours ago

      It’s the ratio of screen size to distance from the screen. But typically you sit further from larger screens, so there’s an optimization problem in there somewhere.

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        12 hours ago

        so there’s an optimization problem in there somewhere

        The optimization problem is actually the point of the study, encoded as PPD, which represents the density of a display’s pixel per degree of your eye’s field of vision. It says that any more than 53-94 PPD is imperceptible to most. You can see if your display makes the cutoff if you have the viewing distance and screen size here:

        https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/rainbow/projects/display_calc/