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Message: [QUOTE="JordyG, post: 2779217, member: 6819"] The problem is the human eye is a finite machine. That makes the problem twofold. 1) In order to tell the difference between 4K and 8K you need to half your viewing distance. That's because as the pixels get smaller you are effectively further from the object on the screen. This was the same problem in telling the difference between 1080p and 4K. For the human eye to recognize 1080p from Std definition the viewer needed to be 5 feet from a 40 inch screen (6 ft from 48" screen, 7 ft from a 56" etc.) So, for 4K it's 2 feet from a 32" screen (3' from a 48" screen, 4' from a 64" screen etc.) This also applies to TV's of course. Which is why manufacturers nicely say you need to sit closer. They of course fail to tell you how close. Business is business, and they want to sell as many as possible. Manufacturers will willingly make and sell consumers as many 43" and 50" 4k TV's as they can make. Along with Adam Smith one of the great gods of modern economy is PT Barnum who understood people don't by product they buy the pitch. People are suckers and uninformed ones at that. Long way finally short, for a human to tell the difference between a 4K monitor and an 8K monitor one would need to sit 16" from the screen. Not very practical. For gamers, who are driving the 4K monitor market, 2' from a screen with 120 hz and HDR is just about right. Nvidia is releasing their new cards next month or so and two of those should get us gamers all the 4K, 12o hz, HDR goodies we want. Now for consumers and TV's, they may not be able to tell the difference between P and K, but HDR, brightness and colors, that people can recognize from any distance. That seems to be what is driving that market. 2) Modern gaming monitors today use what is called adaptive sync, which sync's the refresh rate of the monitor with the frames coming from the video card. It makes for smooth gameplay. When the framerate drops, the refresh drops. When the frame rate rises, the refresh matches it, and that prevent all sorts of ugly screen issues. Today's video cards have enough problems trying to put out 6o fps at 4K. Gamers like framerates and refresh rates upwards of 120 (which is measured in HZ's), and current cards just can't produce 120 hz at 4k. For the most part 8K is a PT Barnum wet dream for business, and a worthless, confusing nightmare for consumers. [/QUOTE]

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