Would you use one?
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HD, 4K, 8K - what’s next?
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Why? What's the point?
You need a machine for that?!
No but the machine would still be fun.
In the Terminator movies, human resistance sometimes captures and reprograms terminators to fight for them. Do you think John Connor ever reprogrammed one to serve as a sexbot? There are terminators of both genders after all. 
In the Terminator movies, human resistance sometimes captures and reprograms terminators to fight for them. Do you think John Connor ever reprogrammed one to serve as a sexbot? There are terminators of both genders after all.
Perhaps, that would be cool if he did
Ouch. Put some flesh on that bot.Dibs on T-X!
Full HD, 4K, 8K - what’s next?
I assume 16K will come next. Just keep quadrupling pixel counts.
Do you have to have the latest TV technology? Is it important to you?
I have a fairly modern television.
It's a QLED (with numerous LED zones) 4K/120Hz panel.
It's partially important to me, within reason.
8K is irrelevant to me right now for a myriad of reasons.
1. There's so little 8K content out right now. We're still making the very slow transition to 4K.
2. No streaming boxes that I know of support HDMI 2.1 (8K@60Hz with full color support)
3. Chips likely need to become more efficient at handling 8K@60Hz decoding.
4. We need to further improve our video codecs to handle higher resolutions without consuming tons of bandwidth.
I assume 16K will come next. Just keep quadrupling pixel counts.
Do you have to have the latest TV technology? Is it important to you?
I have a fairly modern television.
It's a QLED (with numerous LED zones) 4K/120Hz panel.
It's partially important to me, within reason.
8K is irrelevant to me right now for a myriad of reasons.
1. There's so little 8K content out right now. We're still making the very slow transition to 4K.
2. No streaming boxes that I know of support HDMI 2.1 (8K@60Hz with full color support)
3. Chips likely need to become more efficient at handling 8K@60Hz decoding.
4. We need to further improve our video codecs to handle higher resolutions without consuming tons of bandwidth.
Thats why I was on the fence about getting a 4K tv when they were new. Nothing aired in 4k, which seems to be the case still. Most things are still 1080p. However 4K TV's are now the same price as HD TV's so thats why we have a bunch of them here. When I moved to a bigger house we needed more TV's so thats what we got.
I'd tend to say that 4K is worthwhile these days.Thats why I was on the fence about getting a 4K tv when they were new. Nothing aired in 4k, which seems to be the case still. Most things are still 1080p. However 4K TV's are now the same price as HD TV's so thats why we have a bunch of them here. When I moved to a bigger house we needed more TV's so thats what we got.
Great for a large form factor display in the living room and gaming a couple of feet away alike.
Makes more sense for the large form factor display, though.
