8K Gaming is NEVER Happening

smcoakley · February 19

6 hours ago, Bramimond said:

As much as I don't want to admit it, but most folks actually can't tell the difference between 480p and 4K at normal living room conditions. I did blind tests with them...

On the bright side, they could tell the difference between 320 kbps MP3s and FLAC files.

It might depend on the content, and how carefully they are paying attention. If I had to guess, for both audio and video, there are three factors that affect whether someone is able to discern between quality levels:

Genetics and physiology: We're not all the same, and each of us likely have different inherent physical limitations on what we're able to discern. Some of us have better or worse eyesight, hearing, etc. It could be genetic, or it could be the result of aging, health, injury, etc. Essentially, what is the effectiveness of the apparatus being used for sensing.
Neural training: This is the other half of our senses -- how is our brain processing sensory input? Your eyes could be perfect, but if you haven't really trained your eye to notice or observe specific details or features, you might not notice them. This is at a subconscious level, but we can indeed usually train this, and often do accidentally. Someone who watches very little TV might not really notice any difference between quality levels because they haven't really learned to notice details like that.
Discernment and interest: Sometimes the apparatus is perfectly functional, and the brain is able to parse differences between two quality levels, but mentally, the individual just doesn't pay attention to these bits of information. They just don't really care about the subject, and out of that habit don't naturally notice any differences.

ewitte · February 24

If Plex is transcoding it drops from 4k HDR to 1080p with no HDR. Most people in the house couldn't tell on a S90D OLED too...

ewitte · February 24

The problem is developers keep pushing graphics and it makes it harder and harder. Everything is 4k now it will likely be doable native in 10 years which will make 8k performance DLSS run just fine without Framegen.