8KX is Pentile? How to cancel pledge?

Pimax 8K Series
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Back when I pledged, they said nothing about the 8K/8KX using pentile displays. Pentile is TERRIBLE compared to a real 3 sub-pixel RGB display. That is why the 5K+ even though much lower resolution, using RGB stripe, is easily superior.

Basically I would be pushing 2x 4K screens with the 8KX only to get about half the visual fidelity due to pentiles native 2 sub-pixel TERRIBLE display quality.

Using pentile on a native 2x 4K display with the massive GPU requirement would be self-defeating. Pentile is a fake resolution screen and a complete waste.

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You can’t cancel a pledge, but you can sell it… Enough people interested in it (like me).
And it’s not pentile, it’s some sort of “rainbow” or “diamond” RGB :slight_smile:

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Sell your pledge . go to eBay and make 4-500 profit.

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Ya but how do you sell something with an unknown ship date?

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Others have done it. Maybe contact pimax support, or sell entire kickstarter account
Or wait till it arrives and sell it physically

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You obviously have no clue what you’re talking about. For technical noobs I simply recommend to take either headset because there ain’t any better ones in months to come for a consumer price.

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I’m offering 500 for your 8kx pledge

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And add-in that those that bought the full kit may not have sensors or controllers until sometime well into 2019, this KS is a clusterF.

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lol even https://www.pimaxvr.com/en/ is trying to load unauthorized scripts and takes you to a web hostage site. LOL

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Sell your kickstarter account if you don’t have any other running pledges on it. You can look up in this forum how others did it.
I would for example (as buyer) ask for a screenshot of the pledge (with personal details blurred out). You could give a bankaccount (or paypal), I would pay 50% of the amount on it, after that’s confirmed, you’d gave the account details to me, and I would change the personal info on it (my address and my email etc) and pay you the remaining 50%. I think that’s about the most fair and possible scam-free way to arrange it.

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Wow the 8K panel is so TERRIBLE. It would be a crime to use that garbage in the 8KX.

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Maybe there’s no better panel available

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It’s not pentile, it’s worse. Pentile has green for every pixel while the 8K panel only has it for half the pixels. It’s a checkerboard panel. The 5K+ has practically the same number of dots, but the 8K has the dots in a 45 degrees rotated grid.

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That’s something I don’t comprehend ( even though there might be good reasons for that )
Why didn’t they use the 4k panels of the pimax4K for the Pimax8K
It would be great if they could use them for the Pimax 8KX at least, or maybe a Pimax 8k+ ?

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Correct me if I am wrong but aren’t they 60hz?

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Yes, they’re only 60Hz so weren’t an option I guess.

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Pimax really need to switch to OLED panels when they become available.

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8k x fullset or headset only?
Little interesting.

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…and create massive godrays and other negative effects? I think the RGB diamond in the 8k and RGB strip in the 5k+ are both better in a lot of ways vs. Pentile OLED displays. To be equal on pixels you need RGB OLED but even then the only thing you gain is really dark blacks.

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I think the colors are usually better on OLED displays, but the blacks cannot be truly black. If the pixel is completely black, it turns off and takes a while to be turned back on. This causes “black smear” artifacts.

I do want Pimax to eventually switch to OLED panels, but right now LCD panels are a good choice for a consumer VR headset.