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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.
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(Score: 2) by Appalbarry on Sunday February 25 2018, @12:44AM (1 child)
Well, wasn't there a wall between him and Mildred, when you came down to it? Literally not just
one, wall but, so far, three! And expensive, too! And the uncles, the aunts, the cousins, the
nieces, the nephews, that lived in those walls, the gibbering pack of tree-apes that said nothing,
nothing, nothing and said it loud, loud, loud. He had taken to calling them relatives from the very
first. "How's Uncle Louis today?" "Who?" "And Aunt Maude?" The most significant memory he
had of Mildred, really, was of a little girl in a forest without trees (how odd!) or rather a little girl
lost on a plateau where there used to be trees (you could feel the memory of their shapes all
about) sitting in the centre of the "living-room." The living-room; what a good job of labelling
that was now. No matter when he came in, the walls were always talking to Mildred.
"Something must be done!I"
"Yes, something must be done!"
"Well, let's not stand and talk!"
"Let's do it! "
"I'm so mad I could SPIT!"
What was it all about? Mildred couldn't say. Who was mad at whom? Mildred didn't quite know.
What were they going to do? Well, said Mildred, wait around and see.
He had waited around to see.
A great thunderstorm of sound gushed from the walls. Music bombarded him at such an
immense volume that his bones were almost shaken from their tendons; he felt his jaw vibrate,
his eyes wobble in his head. He was a victim of concussion. When it was all over he felt like a
man who had been thrown from a cliff, whirled in a centrifuge and spat out over a waterfall that
fell and fell into emptiness and emptiness and never-quite-touched-bottom-never-never-quite-no
not quite-touched-bottom ... and you fell so fast you didn't touch the sides either ... never ... quite
. . . touched . anything.
The thunder faded. The music died.
"There," said Mildred,
And it was indeed remarkable. Something had happened. Even though the people in the walls of
the room had barely moved, and nothing had really been settled, you had the impression that
someone had turned on a washing-machine or sucked you up in a gigantic vacuum. You drowned
in music and pure cacophony. He came out of the room sweating and on the point of collapse.
Behind him, Mildred sat in her chair and the voices went on again:
"Well, everything will be all right now," said an "aunt."
"Oh, don't be too sure," said a "cousin."
"Now, don't get angry!"
"Who's angry?"
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday February 25 2018, @01:26AM
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