XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips   
   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 21 Oct 2025 12:58:58 +1300, Your Name    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 2025-10-20 15:22:58 +0000, Paul S Person said:   
      
      
      
   >> I could say the same about such "innovations" as 3D BD Players and   
   >> associated TVs, TVs with enormous screens, and other tech stuff which   
   >> is useful in itself but subject to "improvements" nobody really cares   
   >> about except "the more-money-than-sense brigade", as you so aptly   
   >> describe them.   
   >   
   >Yep. All these fools buying 4K and now 8K TV sets just to be "first",    
   >because  there was/is very little actual content to play on them at    
   >those resolutions anyway and brodacast TV networks won't have any such    
   >content for years yet (if ever).   
   >   
   >Realistically, few people would notice the difference unless they stick    
   >thier nose against the screen.  :-\   
      
   Huh. I would have thought that the additional pixels would allow them   
   to sit closer to the TV without the individual pixels becoming   
   visible.   
      
   Or perhaps to be able to see Wormtongue's tears as he realizes that   
   Saruman plans to kill /all/ the Rohirrim, including Eowyn.   
      
   Well, either that or because he is overcome with admiration at the   
   size of Saruman's army.   
      
   This sort of thing has happened before, BTW: when I fully converted to   
   DVD (new TV, component video input) I finally actually /saw/ the   
   wormsign when I watched the only /Dune/ worth watching on DVD.   
      
   Indeed, I find it hard to imagine any other effect besides those two.   
      
   But keep in mind that the only relevant experience I have is with   
   monitors and laptop screens, none of them (so far as I know) 4K.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)