Excellent point but when you get into larger screen sizes the increased pixels do matter, assuming they're derived from a good source and not an up-conversion of a poor one.
As @Josh Steinberg pointed out in a previous post, however, the abundance of content sold as "4K" is actually derived from 2K intermediates. If the drive to deliver suitable content were closer to the drive to deliver higher resolution displays there might be a conversation to be had. Absent...
The way I approach this is, "I'm in the game until I'm no longer in the game." As long as I'm in the game I may make purchases I know to be interim at the time. By this I mean I may compromise on feature set with the intent of upgrading again down the road.
Now that I'm [semi] retired I'm...
It's an interesting topic because manufacturers aren't dumb or blind to consumer preferences. If we [as enthusiasts] have essentially no interest in 8K, then the average consumer is clearly not concerned or interested, yet the products are still being produced. I can't explain it.
On a...