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Originally Posted by utack
Is Google now actively killing 8k VP9?
A lot of videos only have AV1 as 8k option available, and I found reference to one a year back in a forum that clearly showed VP9 was still available at the time.
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The bigger challenge is that reality is killing 8K video because of the limits of human perception. I challenge you to find video content that looks better encoded at native 8K than downscaled to 4K at the same bitrate when viewed at enough distances that the edges of the screen are at a minimally acceptable viewing angle. No one in Hollywood is doing any post production in 8K. Heck, most visual effects are still being done in 2K for cost/speed reasons, and because 2K looks just fine if there's some motion blur and/or grain.
And with everyone working from home, even experimenting in 8K is nigh impossible. There literally aren't any monitors that are 8K, HDR, and have DisplayPort. Monitoring 8K HDR means using a (WAY too big for a desk) TV and a $3K AJA Kona 5 with experimental and finicky HDMI 2.1 firmware.