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Sharp Announces 2nd Gen 8K UHD TVs at IFA
Sharp this week introduced its second-generation 8K ultra-high def TVs at IFA in Berlin. The new televisions use the company's new panels as well as the latest processors that can upscale Full-HD and Ultra-HD 4K content to a 7680×4320 resolution.
The initial lineup of Sharp's 2nd Gen Aquos 8K UHD TVs will include models featuring sizes of 60, 70, and 80 inches. The new televisions will be based on the company's new image processor that doubles its compute throughput over the predecessor and can upscale 2K as well as 4K content to an 8K resolution with a 100/120 Hz refresh rate.
Samsung's first 8K TV goes on sale next month
Samsung is announcing its first commercial 8K TV, the Q900R, at IFA 2018 this week. The QLED panel will be available in 65-inch, 75-inch, 82-inch, and 85-inch sizes, and is capable of peak brightness of 4,000 nits. It also supports the newer HDR10+ format backed by Samsung and Amazon.
The incredibly poor detail of 4K makes my eyes bleed; it's impossible to look at. At least now we'll have some more 8K options to tide us over until we reach 64K (61440×34560).
See also: Tech Tent: Are you ready for an 8K telly?
Samsung's 8K QLED TV looks great, but who needs it?
Toshiba Intros Its First Ever 8K TV Concept – IFA 2018
Previously: AU Optronics to Ship 8K Panels to TV Manufacturers in H1 2018
Related: Dell Announces First "Mass-Market" 8K Display
Philips Demos an 8K Monitor
(Score: 2) by cellocgw on Sunday September 02 2018, @01:56AM (1 child)
Last I could tell, digital cinema is 4K and that's one big damn screen. I fail to see the value in going to higher resolution.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday September 02 2018, @02:35AM
5K, 6K, 8K can be used in the production process, and then downscaled to cinematic 4K.
Due to the fact that it is used in the production process, you'll want monitors with equivalent or higher resolution. Just like you can use a 5K screen to display a 4K image + control panels, you could use a 10K screen with 8K.
Cameras for IMAX films may be recording more information than 8K resolution [tested.com].
Most people probably don't want to be sitting in the front row at a movie, because it would exceed their field of view. But with a VR headset, exceeding the user's field of view is actually a good thing. So you could see where VR headsets would benefit from having a higher resolution than cinema projectors.
None of this really explains why you would want an 8K resolution TV. Presumably, if you got a large enough TV and sat close enough to it, in a small room perhaps, there could be more pixels in your field of view than you would get at a movie theater. The display and TV manufacturers are working on "wallpaper" TVs that would be incredibly thin and light, probably using flexible OLEDs. Maybe we will see TVs that can roll up into a tube for easy transport, and then unroll, made flattened effectively with little-no curling, and cover most of your largest wall. That obviously doesn't apply to these 60-85 inch TVs though.
If these developments force 4K displays into dirt cheap price segments, that will be a good enough outcome. Although there was already a $180 4K TV during Black Friday 2017 [consumerreports.org], so...
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