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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
(Score: 1) by LAV8.ORg on Wednesday September 06 2017, @06:17AM
I ran numbers on this recently.
A 30" 2560x1600 monitor has 100.6 pixels per inch.
For approximate pixel size parity, 4k is at 44" and 8k is at 88"
This is of interest to me because I calculate very high resolution fractal art, and run my own prints. When it comes to resolution, printers are much better, with 300 dpi considered the minimum acceptable for photos. The typical inkjet photo printer will also do double that, and some claim much more, but without meaningful technical justification. Anyway, the higher pixel density certainly allows for finer detail, but it doesn't eliminate the most noticeable/common artifacts--jaggies and discontinuities from thin lines and edges very close to orthogonal relative to the screen. Which is to say it's easy to overlook the better (tiny little) detail for the obvious defects. But also that things such as non-rectangular pixel grids and OLED style true black could improve facets of perception in ways that more pixels can't.