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Good news for anyone looking to overwhelm their fovea centralis with pixels: Dell has announced the first "mass-market" 8K (7680×4320) display, which will be sold for around $5,000 beginning in March:
Dell introduced the industry's first mass-market 8K display aimed at professional designers, engineers, photographers and software developers. The UP3218K will be available this March, but its rough $5,000 price tag will be rather high even for professionals dealing with content creation. That being said, $5K or so was the price that the original 4K MST monitors launched at in 2013, which perhaps makes this display price more palatable. On the other hand, right now an 8K professional display is such a niche product that the vast majority of users will have to wait a few years to see the price come down.
Up to now, 8K reference displays were available only from Canon, in very low quantities and at very high prices. The displays were primarily aimed at video professionals from TV broadcasting companies like NHK, who are working on 8K (they call it Super Hi-Vision) content to be available over-the-air in select regions of Japan next year. A number of TV makers have also announced their ultra large 8K UHDTVs, but these are hardly found in retail. Overall, Dell is the first company to offer an 8K display that can be bought online by any individual with the money and be focused on the monitor market rather than TVs.
At present, Dell is not publishing the full specifications of its UltraSharp 32 Ultra HD 8K monitor (UP3218K), but reveals key specs like resolution (7680×4320), contrast ratio (1300:1), brightness (400 nits), pixel density (280 ppi) as well as supported color spaces: 100% Adobe RGB and 100% sRGB.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Sunday January 15 2017, @10:32PM
The 8k standard calls for a bit depth of 48 bits (16 bits per color channel) and up to 120 frames per second. Math: 7680*4320*6*120 = 23,887,872,000 bytes PER SECOND. That's a lot of bandwidth.
Oh, and they are introducing yet another connector for the standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_High-Definition_Link [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 15 2017, @11:00PM
The MacBook Pro doesn't have that connector. Lame.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday January 15 2017, @11:10PM
No, the "8K standard" [wikipedia.org] doesn't call for that. That's what superMHL 1.0 supports:
You'll notice that the monitor in the summary only supports 8K (4320p) at 60 Hz/FPS rather than 120, and 10 bits per color channel rather than 16. So your bandwidth estimation is too high. I believe these connectors can also use lossless or "visually lossless" compression to lower the bandwidth requirements.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 16 2017, @03:14AM
MHL is for mobile devices.
proper stuff will use displayport.