Do you still use 1080P TV? Why haven't you upgraded to 4K?

studio apartment, small screen (I prefer a 32 inch screen for gaming), 4k doesn't look any different than 1080 with this setup.

I haven't watch TV in at least 10 years. It's all sh!te. I watched Oprah once. Couldn't understand why such an ignorant woman got so damn rich doing what she does. I miss Shark Week, though,,,,the History Channel and Nat Geo... Love it when the lions get pissed at the hyenas , then kills one to set the order straight. "How'd that work out for ya, b!tch? I do have a 49" monitor, but it's still sitting in its box a year later. One of these days I'm going to set it all up....but...

There must be millions of reasons

Thousand of things, just to name a few

I'm gonna spend the rest of today

Makin' a list of things to do

But I'll do 'em all tomorrow

Tomorrow

It can wait until tomorrow

kore wrote:

Do you still use 1080P TV? Why haven't you upgraded to 4K?

When I switched from tubes to flat screens, I upgraded two TVs w/HD and a BluRay player, including one with a built-in amp and external bookshelf stereo speakers.

Despite the upgrades, including Digital HD TV over cable with 120 channels for free, that is about the time we generally stopped watching TV and DVDs/Blu-Rays.

Kids watch streaming on an iPad or a laptop, or sometimes their iPhone. 720p is more than ample.

Wife wants something like the “Samsung Frame” so we can hang it on a wall like a picture.

8k-3D wrote:

With a good home theater setup you wife will cuddle up with you. That may not be important to you.

I don’t need a TV for that.

2006 vintage Sony 46 inch , not smart, but works fine. $30 chromecast makes it as smart as I need. Decent audio back then though I still have output wired to a decent stereo system.

When it dies, I will upgrade.

Runningart2004 wrote:

What's wrong with being outdated?

I had an iPhone 6 up until 3mo ago. Now still only have an SE :)

Alan

Still rocking the Samsung Galaxy S4 with a replaceable battery. Also have an iPhone 3GS with an old connector plugged into my Zeppelin, but that is mainly just for show.

I have a 55 inch 4K TV and have access to 4K content through amazon and disney+.

I see practically no discernable difference between 4K and 1080p, and certainly nothing remotely close to affecting my enjoyment of what I am watching! Crap is crap whatever resolution its at, and vice versa!

You have to sit REALLY close to an 8k TV -- like 5 feet -- to be able to tell the difference with 4K unless you have Chuck Yeager vision. 8K is completely pointless 99.999% of consumer screens.

1080p vs. 4k is a better proposition but many people still sit way too far! However, nearly every TV made is 4k now so you don't really have a choice.

8K is a money grab and early adopters will shell out tons of $$ for a sticker on the outside of the box.

Nothing I said was a personal attack on your way of life. If your home theater makes you happy then it's worth it. Nobody spends their money rationally and a few thousand $$ is not much in the grand scheme.

I have a 480p 20" Samsung TV with a tube. The digital converter box for over-the-air rabbit ears fried itself a few years ago, but I can theoretically still pop cool old tapes into the VCR. I pretty much only used it to watch events like the Olympics. I think I got initially to watch the 2000 Olympics with my GF.

Nobody is sitting <4 feet from their 8K screen. Just get a 4K and spend the extra $3000 on a massaging chair or something.

rekrunner wrote:

8k-3D wrote:

With a good home theater setup you wife will cuddle up with you. That may not be important to you.

I don’t need a TV for that.

Neither do I. Is your approach slam-bam-later-ma'am ... it's all about you? You should learn how to romance a woman, and learn when she is ready, and when she is done. The majority of guys are clueless.

8k-3D wrote:

rekrunner wrote:

I don’t need a TV for that.

Neither do I. Is your approach slam-bam-later-ma'am ... it's all about you? You should learn how to romance a woman, and learn when she is ready, and when she is done. The majority of guys are clueless.

Fellas, does your wife need to be hypnotized by mass media before getting intimate?

Harambe wrote:

8K is a money grab and early adopters will shell out tons of $$ for a sticker on the outside of the box.

An 8k system is what some people can afford now and cost is not a factor to them. They likely replace their setups every few years much like some trade in a car every few years for a newer model. I dated a woman who inherited a substantial amount from her mom (over 10 million). She traded in her top of the line BMW every single year. She said "why not, I have more money that the amount I inherited." There are people like this who "shell out" money because they can.

Personally, we have a 10 year old, 52", 1080p TV with a 15 year old 5.1 speaker setup. we'll buy an 8k system when the price is reasonable and install a 7.1 Atmos speaker system built into the house walls (to hide the speaker bodies). Hiding the speakers will get them off the floor and shelves and out of the way (maybe not the subwoofer, we'll see). After 15 years of cleaning the speaker enclosures and dusting around them the price of installing them into the walls will be more than worth it. To each their own.

The 1080p system will have served us 12-15 years. The yet-to-buy 8k system will serve us for at least 10 years. Following the 8k system will be another upgrade that will last at least 10 years (probably the last upgrade prior to retirement). If you are doing the math that is 3 TV setups lasting some 40 years.

So, how long have you had your current TV setup?

Harambe wrote:

Fellas, does your wife need to be hypnotized by mass media before getting intimate?

You assumption is WRONG. Slam-bam-later-ma'am is YOUR how-to-avoid intimacy solution. You have no clue how to get the most out of sex in a relationship.

kore wrote:

Do you still use 1080P TV? Why haven't you upgraded to 4K?

Is this like FM wireless?

I take no issue with upgrading your home theater setup. I take no issue with buying top of the line tech. My gaming computer is stupidly overpowered for the stuff I play, for example.

I'm just pointing out the resolution-obsession has reached a comical pinnacle where we are now well beyond what the eye can discern from reasonable viewing distances. I'm sure there are better places where TV manufacturers could spend their R&D $$$, but they know that resolution is an easy upsell for consumers.

I remember when 4K was just breaking in and we saw the same articles: "4K is meaningless unless you sit close enough" etc, but here we are and everything is 4K. I expect 8K will be no different.

My crap ass internet can't keep up with streaming even though I pay for the highest streaming rate available. My 4k looks like dial up internet on a Compact laptop showing Real Player videos.

8k-3D wrote:

Harambe wrote:

Fellas, does your wife need to be hypnotized by mass media before getting intimate?

You assumption is WRONG. Slam-bam-later-ma'am is YOUR how-to-avoid intimacy solution. You have no clue how to get the most out of sex in a relationship.

Nothing gets the wife more ready for a 'roll in the hay' than 60 minutes of mind-numbing television. Preferably 2 ft from our 8K TV so we can see every up-sampled pore on the actors' faces.

Trust me man, I'm a romantic