The nerd thing wasn't intended as a pejorative, I'm something of a nerd myself. But as far as upgrades go then the idea of an 8K of x movie - even a 65mm classic - doesn't excite me as much as it once would've. Everyone has their own threshold for what's good enough as you say, but when we have to scrabble around for such incremental things to differentiate 8K then that speaks for itself. And as for in-home 8K upscaling, don't all the 8K sets tout their super duper AI upscaling abilities these days? So I don't think you have to worry about some nearest neighbour type deal there.
Heck, I'd be more interested in 8K if the quality of compression wasn't going down the gurgler as it is with 4K UHD, it's so spotty at the moment and I can't see how 8K breaks free from that. Decent encoding is like the very last thing on the minds of the content providers and fookin hell it drives me up the wall.
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