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posted by martyb on Saturday February 24 2018, @04:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the would-make-an-adequate-desktop-display dept.

More 8K (4320p) TVs will be coming soon. AU Optronics has announced plans to ship 8K panels to TV manufacturers starting in the first half of 2018:

The lineup of panels featuring a 7680×4320 resolution will be aimed at ultra-high-end TVs and sizes will range from 65 to 85 inches, said Liao Wei-Lun, president of AUO's video products business group, at a press conference. The high-ranking executive did not disclose other specifications of the panels, such as luminance and contrast ratio, but given their positioning, it is logical to expect their characteristics to be comparable to 8K UHDTVs to be offered by LG and Samsung.

Multiple TV makers demonstrated various 8K UHDTVs at various trade shows in the recent years, but so far no one has started to sell them. Given the lack of content, it is hard to expect high demand for 8K televisions in the next couple of years, aside from the halo factor - nonetheless, AUO expects 8K panels to account for 10% of its '65-inch and above' panel shipments in 2020. The presumably high-cost of the panels would indicate that in terms of unit shipments this might still be a low-ish number. However, as with 4K displays, someone has to release 8K TVs to stimulate content providers to offer appropriate material. At this year's CES, Samsung demonstrated its Q9S, its first commercial 8K TV-set, but it did not announce its pricing or availability timeframe. LG and Sony also demonstrated their 8K TVs at CES 2018, but nothing is clear about their plans regarding these products.

[...] As for 8K displays for PCs, Dell is currently the only company to offer an 8K monitor (this one is based on a panel from LG, so the latter might introduce its own 8K display at some point). Philips last year promised to start shipments 328P8K monitor in 2018, so expect the product to hit the market in the coming months too.

Need something to watch on your 8K TV? How about the 2020 Olympics?

Also at DigiTimes.

Related: LG to Demo an 8K Resolution TV at the Consumer Electronics Show
Dell Announces First "Mass-Market" 8K Display
Philips Demos an 8K Monitor
Pimax Launches Kickstarter for "8K" Virtual Reality Headset
HDMI 2.1 Released
LG's 88-inch 8K OLED TV


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  • (Score: 2) by aiwarrior on Saturday February 24 2018, @06:23PM (3 children)

    by aiwarrior (1812) on Saturday February 24 2018, @06:23PM (#643103) Journal

    You might be right if it were not the case that display sizes are also scaling up significantly. 2018 normal size is 55, and these displays are already targeting bigger ones. Of course I think there will be a time where not body has a big enough wall to put such monster panels.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Saturday February 24 2018, @07:12PM (2 children)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday February 24 2018, @07:12PM (#643128) Journal

    But with a bigger display, you have to sit farther away to comfortably watch. Which compensates the larger pixel size.

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    • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Sunday February 25 2018, @12:27AM

      by fyngyrz (6567) on Sunday February 25 2018, @12:27AM (#643243) Journal

      But with a bigger display, you have to sit farther away to comfortably watch. Which compensates the larger pixel size.

      Doesn't mean you can't move in / lean in and examine detail, though.

      I have a 204" projection display; at 1080p, I can walk up to the display surface and cover a single pixel with the tip of my pinky with it sharply focused. At our normal watching distance (which is pretty far back as you would expect), it looks great. But move on in, and it turns into dots. I don't want dots. I want detail and I'm willing to pay for it. 8k will help there, when and if it hits the market.

      For that matter, I want real 3D, not this crappy stereo-vision they tried to foist off on everyone as "3D." I want to look down into valleys, up at balconies, and behind the cheerleaders. I don't think it's going to get here in time for me to enjoy it. That would be a huge shift in technical capability from the studio to the home, and I just can't see it happening any time soon.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Sunday February 25 2018, @03:17PM

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 25 2018, @03:17PM (#643453)

      comfortably watch

      There's a bunch of topics to google for, field of view and angular resolution.

      I would have to substantially redesign my living room for 4K to make sense. Its possible, but I don't want to move the couch there solely to play PS4 or watch crappy TV. So it sits there.

      The unreported story is my family mostly doesn't watch TV anymore. The kids are all over tablets, my wifes on her phone. The TV is at most a source of background noise. People of a certain age will remember yard sales and GoodWill stores full of analog quadraphonic gadgets. The recent TV fad is likely to end up that way.