[jorvi]

The bitrate thing is certainly true, but at the bitrates that Netflix streams I'd almost rather have the same bitrate for a 1080P stream and then use my Shield to upscale it.

As for the color thing, 4:4:4 has very little material released in that format. And there's a reason we chose to compress 4:2:2 instead of 2:2:4, humans are just much less sensitive to color than to brightness. That's why HDR is so nice, the extra brightness steps.

People can certainly have better vision than 20/20 (which is taken as standard, although it is above average already).

And yup, 8K is unnecessary aside from maybe cinema front row seats. And 4K phones are indeed stupid haha. Interestingly enough, for example the Deck is plenty sharp at 720P which I personally would have never expected until owning it.

[Melatonic]

If only it were that simple - unfortunately "4K" also comes with higher bitrates (if you fall back to 1080P it will just max out at a much lower bitrate)

Most content that is not 10 bit will also be 4:2:0 - you are right that 4:4:4 is overkill but 4:2:0 does sorta suck.

It's really about the overall the package