[ExI] new tv

[Dave Sill]

On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 6:23 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> Just how much resolution can we really see on TV?  How much just looking
> around the room?  What's the resolution of life?  (well, ok, death but
> that's not the question)  At what point does an increase in resolution not
> result in a sharper picture to us?
>

The eye can distinguish about 60 pixels per degree, so for a TV it depends
upon how close you are to the screen.


>   Eagles can tell at higher resolutions than we can.. It's probably a
> function of the density or retinal cells if I had to guess.
>

Yes, specifically those in the fovea.

For TVs, though, the real limitation isn't so much the TV as the content.
Little is 4k and less is 8k. Non-interlaced 1080 is still pretty rare.

-Dave
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