What is the point of watching videos of more than 4K on a 4K display?

[hajime]

Hi, what are the advantages of watching videos of more than 4K on a 4K display? Do things look nicer and more detailed?

 

[Huntn]

Example, source? Not arguing, just asking.
As a guess, I’d say it would but show any better than 4k, because data would not be used fully.

 

[hajime]

For example, the 8K video that MBP 16" users can't play.
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[Bug-Creator]

Assuming that the source material was 8k and not just upscaled during production:

- Content has to be scaled down (either during production or on your HW)
- Content has to encoded in (lossy) codec

I'd assume that downscaling->encoding should yield better results than encoding->downscaling hence watching 8k on a 4k screen would be inferior to just playing 4k (if both were encoded in the same quality).

 

[HDFan]

For example, the 8K video that MBP 16" users can't play.

What video is that?

 

[Tech198]

I'd imagine, since Google encodes video anyway for ease of streaming and bandwidth usage, that would be the 'kicker'.

ie. how do we even know Google only offers the .flv for download only, and not playback as well due to small file size?

 

[hajime]

What video is that?

The Peru video.

Can the new Macbook Pro 16" play this video without lag?

The peru video - I am curious if the new MBP 16" can play it at 8k @ 60fps HDR? You may need to install chrome to see the option for 8k: On a PC/Win10 with ~1650 graphics card it uses ~80% of the GPU but CPU stays close to 0%.

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