Samsung's solution to green energy laws is to dim 8K TVs out of the box

[KofeViR]

No, it‘s not pointless - it‘s a way to get owners of 4K sets to spend money on an 8K set because otherwise they‘d be ‚behind‘ on the tech curve

8K is meaningless unless you go 100+ inches and most that are into tech knows this.

I'd rather see 4K focus, meaning 4K with higher bitrage and less compression over push to 8K with even more compression

 

[Axeia]

Perfectly valid solution

My 45 Watt monitor is perfectly usable @ 20 Watts by simply turning down the brightness when running on battery power

That's how they should have approached it in the first place, some limit on how much power it can use so they don't go absolutely crazy and simply an enforced default out of the box now higher than some amount of nits that should be good for the average room.

TVs and monitors alike often come with the brightness set to some extremely high level to make the image pop in showrooms under bright lights. A considerable amount of people never touch that setting resulting in high power usage. You'll notice less eye strain as well by using a reasonably bright screen. I find that 20-40% brightness on most monitors is plenty.

 

[KofeViR]

I'd rather see 4K focus, meaning 4K w

That's how they should have approached it in the first place, some limit on how much power it can use so they don't go absolutely crazy and simply an enforced default out of the box now higher than some amount of nits that should be good for the average room.

TVs and monitors alike often come with the brightness set to some extremely high level to make the image pop in showrooms under bright lights. A considerable amount of people never touch that setting resulting in high power usage. You'll notice less eye strain as well by using a reasonably bright screen. I find that 20-40% brightness on most monitors is plenty.

Well LCD tech emits way more blue light than OLED and worse for your eyes, especially at night

 

[Irata]

8K is meaningless unless you go 100+ inches and most that are into tech knows this.

I'd rather see 4K focus, meaning 4K with higher bitrage and less compression over push to 8K with even more compression

My point was that it‘s not pointless from a *business* point of view if it get enough customers to make a - from a technical pov - meaningless purchase.

 

[KofeViR]

My point was that it‘s not pointless from a *business* point of view if it get enough customers to make a - from a technical pov - meaningless purchase.

I see and I agree but it looks like even clueless tech people knows how stupid 8K is because 8K TV sales went down from 2020, to 2021 and once again lower in 2022