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Tardian · Aug 15, 2021

Vya Domus said:
Yep, this is done just to make the whole 8K thing feasible. For a full RGB 8K60 signal you would need to encode 8 GB/s worth of data, there is no way to do that in real time, especially on a CPU.

8K at 4:2:2 can be downsampled to 4K at 4:4:4. So no not garbage. Better than what Hollywood distributes as feature films.

Chrispy_ said:
Yeah, that was the point of my original post. All the content I'm now watching on TV is filmed at 2.35:1, and that's shown on Netflix/Prime/Disney. I'm even seeing black bars on a 16:9 TV when watching live TV through iPlayer/ITV Hub/4OD etc.

The only media content that is still 16:9 is stuff like news, chat shows, sports. TV series made in the last few years are often ultrawide, all films are ultrawide, even some popular youtube streams are now ultrawide!

I don't think it's unreasonable, as a consumer, to want to buy a device that matches the aspect ratio of the content I'm paying for.

2.35:1 and wider is what projectors are designed to produce. For best quality use an anamorphic projector lens.

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Chrispy_ · Aug 16, 2021

Tardian said:
2.35:1 and wider is what projectors are designed to produce. For best quality use an anamorphic projector lens.

I don't use my TV in the dark, and a projector in the daytime is about 50:1 contrast ratio, around 100x lower than my TV, and also half the refresh rate and without vrr and with hideous input lag.
But yeah, given the complete lack of ultrawide TV's that's pretty much the only, yet wholly inadequate option :\

THU31 · Aug 18, 2021

What a complete waste of bandwidth and processing power. But dumb masses will go for it and we will get totally useless 8K content and displays instead of something worthwhile like 21:9 aspect ratio.

ARF · Aug 18, 2021

Broadcasting at 8K is fine and very nice, and what's not fine is the ongoing worldwide manmade corruption that plagues all the companies that continue to use the much inferior Intel hardware, yeah, HP, Dell and the likes. Absolute lack of competence.

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