i don't think there's any letter more appealing to the tv and display industry
right now than k the labels 2k 4k
5k and now ak get thrown around so much
that you might think you're in an online chat that's going nowhere
and while the benefits and drawbacks of 4k tvs and monitors are pretty well
understood by this point there hasn't been nearly as much discussion about 8k
technology even though we're seeing it start to be pushed as the next big thing
after 4k so what exactly is it
well as you can probably guess it's a higher resolution picture than 4k
with an actual resolution of 7680
by 4320 pixels that makes it four times
as sharp at the same size as the already
super sharp 4k giving it 16 times as
much detail as a standard full hd
display and the nice thing is that this isn't
some experimental technology that isn't going
to show up on the market until far away in the future you can go down
to your local big box store and pick up an 8k tv
right now assuming of course that you can afford the investment
but like a solid gold toilet just because you can doesn't mean that you
should but why
so at some point it turns out that your eyes really do hit a limit as to how
much detail they can make out and if you've ever seen a 4k tv or monitor you
might have noticed that you have to get quite close to the screen in order to
discern the individual pixels well with an 8k tv this effect is
multiplied several times over so once you get far enough away it will be very
hard for you to tell the difference between 4k and 8k unless you're in the
market for a super huge 85 or 100 plus
inch display but even if you have a wall and a living room cavernous enough to
justify an 8k display we actually still
don't recommend that you go out and buy one right now there simply isn't enough
8k content out there there are a few 8k
youtube videos that have mostly been uploaded as novelties and finding bigger
name shows movies and sporting events in 8k is exceedingly difficult
now there are a limited number of 8k programs available in japan including
the upcoming 2020 olympics but finding
8k on the reg is going to be tough for
years to come i mean there are still only a few hundred titles on netflix
that are in 4k and just about everything on cable and satellite is still in 1080i
and the thing is that even though lots of 8k tv manufacturers are pushing the
fact that their tvs can upscale lower resolution content to 8k quite well the
quality still won't come close to video
that is natively shot in 8k and
certainly won't justify the huge price difference over a 4k model and then of
course even if you've got your 8k content there is the issue of how much
bandwidth 8k video takes for each 8k stream in your house you'll
need a bare minimum connection speed of
around 50 megabits per second and of course if you want any other devices in
the house connected and if you want to watch HDR content you will need even
more so our take is that ak will take
quite a few years to become truly useful
simply because the main benefit is not as large of a difference in image
quality over the last gen compared to last time around
and even then it might only be useful at
all in spaces where large large format
displays make sense not necessarily in the average home or
apartment unless you're into sitting really really close to your tv though we
have seen prototype tvs that are meant to take up most of your wall
isn't that a scary thought i mean imagine my face plastered across you
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