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Re:My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force ... by ams6110 on Sunday April 01, 2018 @01:25PM (#16729380)
This is totally subjective but I find UHD/4K to be painful to look at on a large screen. The contrast is too high, everything is too focused. I don't need to see skin pores from across the room.

1080p is by far "good enough" to watch anything on TV, IMO.

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Re:My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force ... by freehunter on Sunday April 01, 2018 @01:56PM (#16729547)
I don’t have much experience with 4K but I’ve had to disable some motion enhancing features on 120hz screens because the movements seemed too fast and it was weird.
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Re:My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force ... by paganel on Sunday April 01, 2018 @06:41PM (#16730938)
> The contrast is too high, everything is too focused. I don't need to see skin pores from across the room.

I re-watched a couple of episodes of "Friends" recently (apparently the series is now available on Netflix) at a couple of friends' house, on a huge tv set, and I had a totally different experience compared to what I remembered from last watching the episodes ~15 years ago because I could only focus on looking at the actresses' faces, asking myself: "Did Monica's face really looked like that? Did Phoebe's?". I'll stick with 1080 or even with 780 from now on.

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