2K displays allow more headroom when playing back 1080p content. Remember how only one display could resolve all 1080 lines while there was motion on the screen (HDguru). Every 2K display can easily display all 1080 lines. So a 2K display holds advantages over 1080 displays even if 2K content ever comes.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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2K displays allow more headroom when playing back 1080p content. Remember how only one display could resolve all 1080 lines while there was motion on the screen (HDguru). Every 2K display can easily display all 1080 lines. So a 2K display holds advantages over 1080 displays even if 2K content ever comes.