Re: AMD weighs in on HD versus 4K

On Tue, 27 May 2025 17:40:24 -0700, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 5/27/2025 9:02 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

 
Recently, Frank Azor -one of the bigwigs at AMD- pointed out that the
vast bulk of PC gamers (and even more with consoles) still play in HD
resolutions rather than $K or higher. Close to 60% of gamers on Steam
still have 1080p monitors. Many of the most-played games don't even
use the added RAM necessary for HD. As such, Azor says, AMD's primary
focus won't be on catering to the UHD/4K gamer, but to the larger
market where 4-8GB VRAM are sufficient.
 

I feel the same about TV/Streaming/Movies and such.  HD is just fine,
I'm not shelling out for the overpriced 4K TVs and re-buying all my
DVDs/Blu-Rays for 4K discs.  Most people can't even see a difference
between HD and 4K.

My last TV purchase, in 2016, I specifically asked for a 1080p dumb TV
after everything had pretty much gone to 4k, because I *thought* there
would be a price break.

They had what I asked for, but the 4k was cheaper. In the same sizes. All
the smart TVs were also inexplicably cheaper. (*shrug*)

So I got a 4k smart TV and still have it. There's a 1 px vertical line
going down the right third of the screen. It vexes me. But it has
component input for old hardware. It also has an app, the only smart
feature I use, that lets me stream video off a media server with
surprisingly robust file format support. My Roku can't play all the file
types it can. Between those last two features, the TV is gold to me.

I'll probably keep it till it fails completely.

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Zag

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