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Originally Posted by The Fonz
Quite possibly the worst chart I've ever seen on the internet.
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Try this one then.
I'm sorry if it makes you feel bad about your 4k TV purchase that you were really hyped on. Facts are sometimes inconvenient. FWIW, I just bought a 4k LED set as well, but I'm not under any illusions that the appreciable picture quality is going to be as good as my four-year-old F8500 Plasma, and that's despite the fact that I've deliberately set my room up so that if I can move to 5' from the screen if I want to. It's just reality: I have 20/20 eyesight, but the human eye is the lower resolution device.
4K was a gimmick to begin with to sell people new TVs when it came out, and remains mostly a gimmick, not just because of the lack of content. You could make them in a variety of sizes for much less money and thus enjoy much more margin than on a plasma or OLED set, so the industry pushed it as revolutionary, game-changing tech. The truth is, 90% of people either are not buying a panel large enough to see any major benefit, and most people's living rooms aren't set up to enjoy that benefit even if they did get a 75" or bigger screen - and that's assuming you have good eyesight to start with.
If you're part of the 10% who are buying a huge panel and have set your media room up to sit 7' or less from your screen, congrats - you absolutely are going to get your money's worth once the content becomes more readily available. But if you're not, don't lie to yourself. Now, if you want to, you
can buy the best TV in picture quality ever created, one that puts even the last gen plasmas like the VT60 to shame - it's called LG's E6. OLED absolutely murders any LED panel ever made or that ever will be made, period.
4k definitely is a big deal, but more when it comes to projector technology. Once that becomes achievable for most people (e.g. doesn't cost ten grand), it will be a huge shift upward, because if you're watching a projected image at 120", you can sit at normal viewing distances, and it'll be a big improvement. On a 65" screen, you're just talking yourself into a placebo effect.