[jws]

Who sits 5 feet from a 42" TV set? That would roughly be a retina display 8000 pixels wide. You are also looking at something like a 400mbps data rates to feed it.

[jfb]

Well, it's 16 times the picture resolution at the same temporal resolution, and you can do a damn fine job with 10Mb/s high profile H.264 at 2K, so … yeah, I guess that's about the right order of magnitude.

But holy diminishing returns, Batman.

[Flenser]

not sure if these are accessible outside the uk: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9774380.s...

"But when the screens are even larger you get a sense of being there - it's like looking through a window." - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19370582