privatebydesign said:
Don Haines said:
and before anyone says how far into the future this is, IMAX theatres use 8000x4000 resolution....
And as soon as we are getting 60 foot screens in our 40 foot front rooms I will remortgage my house to get one.
You should really look at the actual FOV of an IMAX screen.
According to this article: http://www.lfexaminer.com/20090522a.htm The minimum horizontal FOV for "IMAX" is 60 degrees, that would put you at five feet from an 80" 8K screen (no, it's not "ideal", but it's within the original spec).
Probably impractical for more than four viewers, but definitely not an unreasonable concept to pull off for a dedicated home theater, and those figures aren't drastically different from my own calculations (a limit of 6 feet for a 60" screen).
Of course my figures are with slightly above average eyes, but the point is that 8K in people's homes isn't completely out of line, and a similar standard of image fidelity has been on display in professional venues for a very long time.