New EU energy regulation could effectively ban 8K TVs in 2023
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There you go. They just prefer the easy option of doing nothing.
With these EU legislations there's a pattern of the EU saying "you have a grace period of X years to make a gradual improvement to the worst offender", companies do nothing for X years, and then have a last-minute "oh shit" moment and do a PR spin of "the dumb bureaucrats want to ban fun".
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I doubt I could tell the difference between 4k and 8k though.
I suppose doing the math, I would expect to be able to tell the difference between 4k and 8k on a 110" TV.
if you think doing something like this makes sence -> do they regulate multiple TV? Lets say I buy 4 tvs and have them play at the same time. Why do we allow people to do that but regulate 1 better resolution TV.
Having regulators nudge manufacturers in the right direction has a massive impact when we are talking about a market of half a billion consumers.
If the intent is to promote lower power devices surely it's better for me to use an 'inefficent' 14" screen using 100w than a 100" screen using 110w?
The only counterpoint that I can think of is that this would effectively ban very large TVs. But once you're at the point of saying you can't have energy wasting things, it seems obvious that that would include very large inherently energy wasting things.
We may not need them, but we don't need TVs.
Plus in the grand scheme of energy wasting things, why is that top of your list? Seems a weird thing to have a vendetta against.
Cars have lights. Bikes have lights. Streetlights are wasteful and polluting.
I like how the "idiot proof" Energy label doesnt have the most basic information in normal form. Instead of 66W its 66kWh/1000h, like its somehow easier?
Both Intel and NVIDIA should be regulated too, that'd force them to reduce the insane TDP of their products
They should learn from Apple
Without that, they're no better than my elderly Thinkpad that runs off a 25-watt power brick.
2yo AMD's gpu are competitive with new Intel new GPUs with only just half the TDP
It doesn't matter how power-efficient they are if they don't work.
The next logical size is 16k case at least it scales
At the time some cinema owner with a training in management of projection where underwhelmed by 4K. for them, we reached a resolution plateau at 4K.
I wonder what they think of 8k tv :)
( context : for their screen of 12m wide , 4K was when you start to have diminishing returns in term of quality )