8K is available yet 4K hangs on like a disease that killed someone dear to you. Why?

[bhampton]

My projector (JVC RS3100) can display 8K via pixel shifting.

Most of the over a 1000 hours I put on the projector in the first year left this feature off because I don't have any 8K content.

Sometimes though I experiment with it and my observations are

1. Pixel shifting of this projector looks fine. I don't see added noise. When I watch HD upscaled to 4K that doesn't seem to cause any harm to the image quality.

2. Upsampled to 8K doesn't seem to be much better than native 4K at least on my projector. What it does is hide some of the noise in the signal. Upconverting it makes it slightly softer in a unnoticeable way but less digital noise remains visible. The refresh rate is higher which makes for a better picture also.

[meremortal]

I actually didn't realize until recently that 35mm has a digital resolution perhaps around 5.6k. But a lot of us probably get hung up on resolution stats. I've been surprised and impressed with how well blus have looked when screened at a local indie theater. I think around 720p is probably around the point where there may be a beginning of some degree of diminishing returns for me, although I of course prefer 1080p and beyond if possible. And hdr is certainly an interesting dynamic.

[Slattery]

8 years on and we are still using 4k lol

[Martin Schwarz]

Most people still buy 2K Blu-ray movies or even DVDs because upgrading to 4K Ultra HD is more expensive. It is necessary to own a more expensive player, a more expensive TV and pay more for each movie. In a situation where the transition to 4K Ultra HD is so slow, I don't know if 8K is realistic. I'm also not sure if it's realistic to scan older movies to 8K, especially when they've been scanned to 4K and expensively restored quite recently. True 8K (not upscaled 4K to 8K) would probably only apply to completely new movies.

[Bluyoda]

Zero need for anything over 4k at home.
Most studios can't even give us high quality Blu-ray transfers. We are still dealing with DNR'd transfers in UHD for Pete's sake.

[s2mikey]

Originally Posted by Bluyoda

Zero need for anything over 4k at home.
Most studios can't even give us high quality Blu-ray transfers. We are still dealing with DNR'd transfers in UHD for Pete's sake.

This. Even a good blu-ray looks damned good at home with the right gear. 4K? Perfectly good enough. Despite my love for physical media, there is NO way Im rebuying movies and shows again in yet another format. 8K? Yeah, no.

Im good with 4K being the last physical disc format.

[CatBus]

Originally Posted by Martin Schwarz

Most people still buy 2K Blu-ray movies or even DVDs because upgrading to 4K Ultra HD is more expensive. It is necessary to own a more expensive player, a more expensive TV and pay more for each movie.

All you really need is a new player. At that point you have the option of buying 4K media for your most-beloved titles. Some day down the road you'll need to replace your TV, and at that point at least part of your collection will be pre-upgraded. But the price of entry into the 4K market is only about $150 -- which is apparently too steep for many, given how many DVD players I still see out there.

[SSF-1138]

Personally, I think a high quality encode, even in 1080P, is good enough for long term home video use. 4K is great but my main interest in it is how it puts right many of the home video wrongs of poorly mastered Blu-Rays.

Also, the less processing the better: I've got music DVDs that look great when upscaled due to a lack of processing. The Led Zeppelin 2003 DVD looks great when upscaled to 1080P, especially the 16mm Albert Hall footage, due to a lack of digital processing.

[Ernest Rister]

I don't have a television or monitor or projection screen the size of a school bus, so an 8K tv and an 8K player and new 8K media is redonkulous. I'll take the lingering 4K disease for now, I guess.

[cricepng]

I'm personally gonna wait to upgrade until they have 256K.

More is not always necessary or better.

[roxics]

[roxics]

I don't need 8K. I don't even desire it. I would just love if they started releasing 4K 3D Blu-ray players/discs and new 4K 3D TVs.

[jess1581]

Originally Posted by roxics

I don't need 8K. I don't even desire it. I would just love if they started releasing 4K 3D Blu-ray players/discs and new 4K 3D TVs.

Yep. 1080p and 4K is the bottom line for me. They keep trying to level up technology before perfecting the one we have now.

[Brahmzy]

When we actually start seeing very high-quality UHD movies, that are actually full 4K through the whole pipeline (CGI etc) and utilizing the format to its max, visually, then we can talk 8K. I want 8K too like many others. I want a 100 8K OLED to replace my 83” A90J OLED. But with many large cities still not getting ATSC 3.0 4K availability (my 600,000 people city doesn’t even have a single station) I’m not seeing it.
We’re still seeing 2K upscales in our 4K Blu-ray Discs. It’s ridiculous.

We’re a long ways off from quality 4K content. Look at what has become the standard for 4K streaming. It’s garbage. The non-lossless audio sucks and the video is low bit-rate. And streaming services don’t offer separate higher-quality plans to take advantage of my 1.2Gbit download speeds. Imagine 8K streaming. LOL