A New Study Shows That Most People Are Unable to Perceive the Difference of 8K on a Smaller Screen Unless They Are Extremely Close to It

[sdifox]

If you have to pan your head you are sitting too close. But the alleged recommended distances were multiples of that. It might not have been exactly 10ft for 27" I was just giving a ballpark example, but it was ludicrous numbers.

This is a far cry from the charts making the rounds in the DVD / CRT era. I wish I could somehow dig those out.

I didn't run across it. But then I am pretty insulated, I mostly hang out at ATOT.

 

[Riccochet]

Except individual pixels weren't really discernible on a CRT or a Projector screen. And the distances were ridiculous like 10 feet for a 27" and such.

I had rear projection TV's back then. They looked like dookie up close.

 

[sdifox]

I had rear projection TV's back then. They looked like dookie up close.

RPTV depended on Fresnel lens, not exactly good for image quality.

 

[Stoly]

the human eye doesn't see in pixels nor frames per second.

your brain interprets what your eyes see, and "by design" discards lots of information just keeping enough to decide what are you seeing.

That's why the more you look at a picture, the more detail you discover. In motion it's even worse, plus add motion blur to thar. You can train your brain to keep as much information as possible not just on your center view, but also your peripheral view. highly trained Fighter pilots can discern images and details in less than 1/250th of a second.