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posted by martyb on Tuesday September 05 2017, @04:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the taking-a-look-at-the-big-picture dept.

There's competition in an overfoveated but underserved segment of the display market:

TPV Technology is demonstrating a preliminary version of its upcoming 8K ultra-high-definition display at IFA trade show in Germany. The Philips 328P8K monitor will be a part of the company's professional lineup and will hit the market sometimes next year.

Philips is the second mass-market brand to announce an 8K monitor after Dell, which has been selling its UltraSharp UP3218K for about half of a year now. The primary target audiences for the 328P8K and the UP3218K are designers, engineers, photographers and other professionals looking for maximum resolution and accurate colors. Essentially, Dell's 8K LCD is going to get a rival supporting the same resolution.

At present, TPV reveals only basic specifications of its Philips 328P8K display — 31.5" IPS panel with a 7680x4320 resolution, a 400 nits brightness (which it calls HDR 400) and presumably a 60 Hz refresh rate. When it comes to color spaces, TPV confirms that the 328P8K supports 100% of the AdobeRGB, which emphasizes that the company positions the product primarily for graphics professionals. When it comes to connectivity, everything seems to be similar to Dell's 8K monitor: the Philips 8K display will use two DP 1.3 cables in order to avoid using DP 1.4 with Display Stream Compression 1.2 and ensure a flawless and accurate image quality.

It is noteworthy that the final version of the 328P8K will be equipped with a webcam (something the current model lacks), two 3W speakers as well as USB-A and at least one USB-C port "allowing USB-C docking and simultaneous notebook charging". In order to support USB-C docking with this 8K monitor, the laptop has to support DP 1.4 alternate mode over USB-C and at present, this tech is not supported by shipping PCs. In the meantime, since in the future USB-C may be used a display output more widely, the USB-C input in the Philips 328P8K seems like a valuable future-proof feature (assuming, of course, it fully supports DP 1.4 alt mode over USB-C).

Previously: Dell Announces First "Mass-Market" 8K Display


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by FakeBeldin on Tuesday September 05 2017, @07:22AM (4 children)

    by FakeBeldin (3360) on Tuesday September 05 2017, @07:22AM (#563679) Journal

    For those wondering: since May 2014, Philips the company has nothing to do with Philips-branded TVs.
    Philips started a joint-venture with TPV to produce TVs. Philips sold its remaining shares in that joint-venture by May 2014. The (not so) joint-venture is the company producing the TVs, Philips is mostly just licensing its brand.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday September 05 2017, @08:44AM (3 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 05 2017, @08:44AM (#563695) Journal

    While this is true, I don't think Phillips would continue to license its brand if the products are crappy.

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    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by KritonK on Tuesday September 05 2017, @09:53AM (1 child)

      by KritonK (465) on Tuesday September 05 2017, @09:53AM (#563705)

      Philips was the first brand I put in my "avoid" list, as everything(*) I bought from them had problems. Thus, any claims by Phillips, that Phillips-branded products are up to their standards, do not amount to much in my book.

      (*)Nearly everything. The made-in-Holland Phillips CFLs, that I bought in the early 1990s, are still working, some twenty-five years later. However, Phillips have taken steps to remedy that: their CFLs are now made in China and only last a couple of years, like most other brands.

      • (Score: 2) by FakeBeldin on Tuesday September 05 2017, @11:51AM

        by FakeBeldin (3360) on Tuesday September 05 2017, @11:51AM (#563724) Journal

        This.

        Philips as a company has changed a lot over its existence. They started from humble beginnings, creating light bulbs and doing well. They expanded into radio and television and made decent stuff post-war, and had a good quality brand name (justly deserved, back then). Then, the push for profits came in the 90s. A few reorganisations followed, together with jettisoning well-doing parts of its business (e.g. TVs, or Polygram). Somewhere in the 90s they transformed from a company that took pride in producing high-tech quality stuff into a company that focused on selling products. Right now, if it's Philips-produced, it's probably okay-ish. But don't expect the quality difference that you may be accustomed to - it's too expensive and the Philips brand is not seen as exclusive enough for that.

        For stuff that they don't produce themselves, but only license their brand to? Yeah, that's really only a money thing. You won't get bottom-of-the-market quality, but don't expect anything above average.

        Philips used to be an awesome company, proud of what it was creating. Nowadays, most philips-branded stuff you find in a store will not be considered "core business" by the upper management. Nowadays, they're into "wellness" and lighting - the major projects, not the one bulb at a time projects. Pride in consumer goods seems to be a thing of the past.

    • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Tuesday September 05 2017, @01:48PM

      by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Tuesday September 05 2017, @01:48PM (#563750) Homepage Journal

      RCA used to make very high quality goods, but today, RCA is garbage. Probably the same with Phillips.

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