Comment by zamadatix
5 months ago
If it were just that "higher number sells better" reasoning then it wouldn't make sense the density increases had a pretty hard stop after ~2014. Same with why 8k TV hype died down but 4k TV became mainstream - it's about the genuine limit for a typical person at typical TV viewing distance unless they have an absolutely massive TV.
I always thought Samsung had a clever approach with a toggle to just render at the lower resolution if you wanted the lower rendering load. Then you still only need to develop 1 cutting edge screen with all of the latest improvements but it will please both use cases well as the cost overhead of shipping models 2 separate screens would.
> why 8k TV hype died down but 4k TV became mainstream
People also stop getting eight kids the generation after child mortality plummets. The experience I had until 1080p on computer screens (not 6 inch phones) is that it added sharpness in video reproduction. I can't tell you why people then went for 4k, besides speculating it's the same phenomenon. We've also got a 4k TV simply because there was no additional cost for the featureset we were looking for anyway, and it was the biggest TV we've ever had so it didn't sound weird to have more pixels in it, but indeed, now that I own it, I can say there was no point and I'll not upgrade to a higher pixel density if there were to be a price difference or other downside (like how power draw would show up on the energy label)
Regarding the Samsung rendering thing, is that on TVs specifically? Because I don't think I've noticed that on my Samsung phones, where the impact ought to be more noticeable than for a wall-powered device
But here every type of screen (watch, phone, tablet, Laptop, TV) happened to hit the same angular resolution target (different resolutions based on distance but the same perceived density) at different times, purportedly by chance if not for being the meaningful limit for the average person. That may well not be the limit for you, but you'd still have to explain why this is if you want to claim anything about the average.
It's a feature on the phones https://www.sammyfans.com/2025/07/06/display-setting-actuall...