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Yeah. Once games are rendering 120fps at a native 6K downscaled to an amazing looking 4K picture, then maybe you could convince me it was time to get an 8K TV.

Honestly most people sit far enough from the TV that 1080p is already good enough.

*monkey's paw curls*

Granted! Everything's just internal render 25% scale and massive amounts of TAA.

Why does it slide across the floor? Do you live on a boat?

I've been using the same two TVs since 2008 and I have zero desire to upgrade.

I miss this the most, older tv models would have like over 30 ports to connect anything you wanted. All newer models just have like 1 HDMI connection if even.

To add these older screens last. New stuff just dies after a few years, or gets killed with a firmware upgrade.

PSA: Don't connect your "smart" appliances to the internet fokes.

Same. I can't tell a huge difference between 1080p and 4k, if I'm being honest.

8k is twice as big as 4k so it would be twice as good. Thanks for coming to my ted talk

8k 15fps will be glorious.

lol

I feel like resolution wasn't much of an issue even at 1080p. It was plenty. Especially at normal viewing distances.

The real advantages are things like HDR and higher framerates including VRR. I can actually see those.

I feel like we're going to have brighter HDR introduced at some point, and we'll be forced to upgrade to 8K in order to see it.

1440p is the sweet spot. Very affordable these days to hit high FPS at 1440 including the monitors you need to drive it.

1080@120 is definitely low budget tier at this point.

Check out the PC Builder YouTube channel. Guy is great at talking gaming PC builds, prices, performance.

Tldr: Higher resolutions afford greater screen sizes and closer viewing distances

There's a treadmill effect when it comes to higher resolutions

You don't mind the resolution you're used to. When you upgrade the higher resolution will be nicer but then you'll get used to it again and it doesn't really improve the experience

The reason to upgrade to a higher resolution is because you want bigger screens

If you want a TV for a monitor, for instance, you'll want 4k because you're close enough that you'll be and to SEE the pixels otherwise.

Yesterday I plugged my Xbox 360 controller into my steam deck and played Halo 3 Like an OG.

If you had told someone 10 years ago that you can play Halo 3 on a handheld running Linux with a OG Xbox 360 controller on Steam they would call you crazy.

The fuck is your son doing to those poor $80 controllers?

Except they turned into trash boxes in the last couple of years. Everything is a smart TV with ad potential and functionality that will eventually be unsupported. I’m holding onto my dumb TVs as long as I can.

But be careful of the "smart" ones. If you have a "dumb" one that is working fine, keep it. I changed mine last year and I don't like the new "smart" one. IDGAF about Netflix and Amazon Prime buttons or apps. And now I'm stuck with a TV that boots. All I want is to use the HDMI input but the TV has to be "on" all the times because it runs android. So if I unplug the TV, it has to boot an entire operating system before it can show you the HDMI input.

I don't use any "smart" feature and I would very much have preferred to buy a "dumb" TV but "smart" ones are actually cheaper now.

Same for my parents. They use OTA with an antenna and their new smart TV has to boot into the tuner mode instead of just... showing TV. Being boomers they are confused as to why a TV boots into a menu where they have to select TV again to use it.

New TVs may be cheap, but it's because of the "smart" "spying" function, and they are so annoying. I really don't like them.