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i don't think there's any letter more appealing to the tv and display industry

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right now than k the labels 2k 4k

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5k and now ak get thrown around so much

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that you might think you're in an online chat that's going nowhere

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and while the benefits and drawbacks of 4k tvs and monitors are pretty well

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understood by this point there hasn't been nearly as much discussion about 8k

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technology even though we're seeing it start to be pushed as the next big thing

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after 4k so what exactly is it

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well as you can probably guess it's a higher resolution picture than 4k

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with an actual resolution of 7680

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by 4320 pixels that makes it four times

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as sharp at the same size as the already

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super sharp 4k giving it 16 times as

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much detail as a standard full hd

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display and the nice thing is that this isn't

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some experimental technology that isn't going

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to show up on the market until far away in the future you can go down

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to your local big box store and pick up an 8k tv

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right now assuming of course that you can afford the investment

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but like a solid gold toilet just because you can doesn't mean that you

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should but why

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so at some point it turns out that your eyes really do hit a limit as to how

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much detail they can make out and if you've ever seen a 4k tv or monitor you

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might have noticed that you have to get quite close to the screen in order to

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discern the individual pixels well with an 8k tv this effect is

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multiplied several times over so once you get far enough away it will be very

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hard for you to tell the difference between 4k and 8k unless you're in the

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market for a super huge 85 or 100 plus

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inch display but even if you have a wall and a living room cavernous enough to

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justify an 8k display we actually still

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don't recommend that you go out and buy one right now there simply isn't enough

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8k content out there there are a few 8k

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youtube videos that have mostly been uploaded as novelties and finding bigger

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name shows movies and sporting events in 8k is exceedingly difficult

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now there are a limited number of 8k programs available in japan including

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the upcoming 2020 olympics but finding

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8k on the reg is going to be tough for

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years to come i mean there are still only a few hundred titles on netflix

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that are in 4k and just about everything on cable and satellite is still in 1080i

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and the thing is that even though lots of 8k tv manufacturers are pushing the

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fact that their tvs can upscale lower resolution content to 8k quite well the

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quality still won't come close to video

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that is natively shot in 8k and

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certainly won't justify the huge price difference over a 4k model and then of

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course even if you've got your 8k content there is the issue of how much

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bandwidth 8k video takes for each 8k stream in your house you'll

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need a bare minimum connection speed of

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around 50 megabits per second and of course if you want any other devices in

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the house connected and if you want to watch HDR content you will need even

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more so our take is that ak will take

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quite a few years to become truly useful

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simply because the main benefit is not as large of a difference in image

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quality over the last gen compared to last time around

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and even then it might only be useful at

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all in spaces where large large format

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displays make sense not necessarily in the average home or

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apartment unless you're into sitting really really close to your tv though we

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have seen prototype tvs that are meant to take up most of your wall

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isn't that a scary thought i mean imagine my face plastered across you

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