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A video with a 4320p (7680×4320) playback option has appeared on YouTube. According to the video description for "Ghost Towns in 8K", it was "Filmed on the RED Epic Dragon 6K in Portrait orientation and then stitched together in Adobe After Effects. Some shots simply scaled up by 125% from 6.1K to meet the 7.6K standard."
Very few people on the planet will be capable of playing the upscaled video in its full glory. The NHK and Panasonic plan to trial 8K broadcasting during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Perhaps YouTube should add an intermediate 5K (5120×2880) option for Apple and Dell users.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by kaszz on Saturday June 13 2015, @05:53PM
It's like no matter the resolution of a boring and pointless TV-drama.. it's still worthless waste no matter the technical quality. To motivate an upgrade in equipment there better be something worthwhile to watch. And without content oligarchs trying to micromanage what software and hardware setup one may use to take part of said content.
On a technical note there's a finite number of optical nerve sensors on a given angle range. So if you know the distance to the screen. It's possible to calculate the maximum useful resolution. Otoh, there's no screen capable of controlling the vector of emitted photons yet so there's plenty of room for improvement.