4K seems to me like a useless waste of resources. The difference between 480p, 720p and 1080p is visible even at distance, but I won’t even notice something is 4K unless a person tells me.
Just like high frame rates, I think this thing has more potential in videogames. In movies, it’s kinda useless.
today me agrees with you. but i am sure two years in the future both of us will have changed our minds.
when we are approximating reality with video, it will forever fall short of the thing it is approximating until perhaps someday we reach the point that displays are manipulating individual atoms to recreate every single wavelength of light that the original scene emited. and even then we might ralize that there is more involved than just light.
every step forward we are amazed at how good something is, and our brains are so great at filling in gaps that we really do think it is perfect. but after long exposure we start to see the flaws.
for the forseable future at least, i think it is safe to assume that current tech will always go obsolete.
the sad result of this is that at some point, long after all originals are decayed and gone, the 8k and 4k remasters done today will be nit so impressive, and we will wish we could go back and redo the scans but we can’t. by happy(?) coincidence, by that time most people who saw the original films probably wont be around, so no one will really care like we care now.
(sorry, rambling before i have had my coffee…)