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The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K
(arstechnica.com)
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TV manufacturers salivated at the idea of TV resolution, hoping desperately to turn the TV market into something like the PC market, in that you have to upgrade every 5ish years to stay on top of technology and use the latest stuff to artificially increase sales beyond what their already abysmal build qualities provide them.
I'm glad the plan is failing spectacularly.
Hopefully this forces them to think more about quality and start focusing on TVs that actually last now... You know, like we used to have 30 years ago.
I have an fairly high end TV and honestly I don't know what the point is because there is virtually no content that's available for it.
Pretty much none of the streaming services go beyond 4K and often they're at 1080p and I have to upscale to 4K. Consoles also don't go above that 4k and again often in fact don't even hit that.
That only makes their "people need to refresh their sets for our bottom line" even worse for them.
BTW, 30 years ago TVs were expensive and still failed. There was a viable TV repair industry because it was worth spending the money to repair and easier to repair.
Anecdotally, my Plasma and my LCDs have been more problem free than when my family had CRT TVs back in the day.
I still have a ~30 year old tube tv that has never needed anything, it still works... But I've been through at least 4 HDTVs.