SciShow: Is An 8K TV Worth It?

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Content of the Lesson: The newest 8K TVs have 33 million pixels - but can you even see that many? Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.pcmag.com/article/358604/what-is-8k-should-you-buy-a-new-tv-or-wait https://wolfcrow.com/notes-by-dr-optoglass-the-resolution-of-the-human-eye/ https://wolfcrow.com/how-to-find-the-right-cinema-or-tv-viewing-distance/ https://blog.eyewire.org/what-is-the-highest-resolution-humans-can-distinguish/ https://www.t3.com/news/high-resolution-cinema-4k-8k-and-beyond https://stari.co/tv-monitor-viewing-distance-calculator https://en.letsgodigital.org/televisions-tvs/tv-screens-size-trends/ http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150727-what-are-the-limits-of-human-vision https://www.opt.uh.edu/onlinecoursematerials/PHOP6241/Anderson/Fall%202015/Visual%20Acuity%20POVS_15.pdf https://stanford.edu/class/ee267/lectures/lecture5.pdf https://www.opt.uh.edu/onlinecoursematerials/PHOP6241/Anderson/Fall%202015/Visual%20Acuity%20POVS_15.pdf https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/003396.htm https://ia801708.us.archive.org/33/items/sizeoflettersreq1180howe/sizeoflettersreq1180howe.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK220/ https://nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience/m/s2/chapter14.html https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/1666/0000/Color-spatial-acuity-control-of-a-screen-subdivision-image-synthesis/10.1117/12.135984.short?SSO=1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15850814 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11822589 https://journals.lww.com/internat-ophthalmology/Citation/2003/43020/Contrast_Sensitivity_and_Limits_of_Vision.6.aspx


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