Monday, January 03, 2022
Can You Really Tell the Difference Between 4K and 8K?
gizmodo.com: Some time ago I came to feel, in a very literal way, the speed of semi-recent technological progress. My roommate—a gamer—had gotten it into his head, possibly via some other gamer, that ‘90s video games look best when played on ‘90s televisions. This led him to secure one on Craigslist, which led in turn to my assisting him in hauling it up the stairs. And it was just, let me tell you, the heaviest fucking thing. I could not believe how heavy that TV was.
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I’d argue that even 4K doesn’t make much of a difference from 1080p. While a 4K screen may be notably crisper, especially if large enough, does the vast majority of content warrant such high resolution? Even movies such as David Fincher’s Zodiac, from a person considered one of the top filmmakers working today, were only shot at 1080p. This film looks beautiful and high res even with a fourth of the pixels of a UHD panel. Meanwhile, older movies shot on film were often scanned at lower resolution such as 2K, and would require a careful rescanning and restoration from the original negatives (which are often not available or no longer exist.) Instead, high quality cinematography has a greater effect on how good a film will look. In fact, often a filmmaker will prefer the film be viewed in the resolution it was originally intended to be. David Simon, creator of The Wire, often considered one of the greatest shows ever created, has mentioned that he would rather a viewer watch the series at its original DVD quality resolution rather than 1080p, let alone 4K.
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