SHARP May Introduce 8K UHD Displays in October

[TheMechEngineer]

There comes a point where there's so many damn pixels that it's hard to notice the difference.

I sacrifice pixel count for more FPS any day.

[Riccardo]

I'm actually excited about 8k Cinema

[Maslofski]

UHD, not to be cofused with ultra HD, but meaning Unheardof HD

[PlayStation 2]

and here I am, still living just fine with a 1360x768 vizio tv from 2009

[Lethal Seraph]

I'd rather pickup a VR headset and a multi-directional treadmill like the Virtuix Omni AND stick with a 144hz monitor.

[WereCat]

Now I can finaly use 80" TV as a monitor and there will be no issue with seeing big pixels. Yay!

Now just gimme GPU that can actualy play games on that thing!

[johnt]

Uh oh... pixel wars have just begun.

 

12k by 2017 at this rate

[Doobeedoo]

8K is what Japanese broadcasters are trying to push for the future anyway, so it's not that crazy.

 

Can't wait for glorious 8K moeblobs.

 

That said, does anyone know what panel manufacturer Sharp has contract with?

Yeah, was about to write that.

And 8K makes sense for large screens like this. I mean pixel density is just good

There was also mentioning about 8K being a great resolution for VR and giving great span of vision, something along those lines

As far as gaming, can't see it at least until 4K is drivable as 1080p is now.

[Prysin]

All that time lapse content you can watch EXCITING! far off gaming in 8k 

quad R9 390X may have a shot at 30FPS....

 

lets just pray there is a CF profile though

[werto165]

quad R9 390X may have a shot at 30FPS....

 

lets just pray there is a CF profile though

Well I guess you're the 0.01% that  actually have a chance.... 

[Egad]

I think this somewhat speaks a reason not to expend too much effort to be an early adopter to 4K.  Some UHD between 4K and 8K is going to end up as the de facto standard and we don't know which one it is.  Dell has had a 5K monitor for awhile.  Really we only talk 4K because right now you can throw enough hardware at 4K to make it more or less work.  

 

As we see more of DX12, new GPU architectures come out, etc, there is always the chance we skip right over something.  720p gaming was kind of brushed past on the way to 1080p.  

[Deli]

Before I could save up enough money for a 4K TV, they will be already pushing 16K UltraX2 blah blah blah..

[Prysin]

Well I guess you're the 0.01% that  actually have a chance.... 

to afford quad R9 390x + 8k monitor.... yeah, yeah i am

[othertomperson]

 

EDIT: I literally cant see the point in these tho You cant even stream 8K video to it from whatever device, try watching an 8K video and you may as well prepare a grave for bandwidth.

 

Then you haven't been paying any attention at all. You could say the same thing of 1080p a decade ago.

[Swndlr]

Then you haven't been paying any attention at all. You could say the same thing of 1080p a decade ago.

Yeh and look how long its taken for it to be mainstreamed...

[Andrew Sh]

Barely can find any 4K content besides games, good luck finding anything to view on that....

Even 4k games are like 0.5% of gamers.

Even 4k won't be the standard for at least 5-10 years IMHO.

[johnt]

Even 4k games are like 0.5% of gamers.

Even 4k won't be the standard for at least 5-10 years IMHO.

 

No way definitely not with some demanding 120+ fps

 

I agree with you

[TroubleKlef]

Already a dead standard.

 

What consumer physical format can handle 8K? Didn't Blu-Ray just get 4K? Also streaming 8k will be a bitch and downloading 8k would destroy data caps.

[El_indian]

 

EDIT: I literally cant see the point in these tho You cant even stream 8K video to it from whatever device, try watching an 8K video and you may as well prepare a grave for bandwidth.

 

read the cot damn quote: 

 

"The screens will be used for commercial applications and will hardly find their ways to homes."

 

Too many people leaving comments having read only the title....No doubt this will happen again.

 

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Title: 16K screen announced 

OP quote: "to be used by NASA for Mars people / future proofing"

Comment: bandwidth/Blu-ray/GPU/gaming/spec wars blah blah...

 

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Let this be a warning to all LTT forum users. I will own you like i owned this kid with my logic and reading abilities (+ supreme post structure and formatting).

[linuxfan66]

I hope to see a resolution cap out at some point because of some of the useless resolutions for home use Being tossed around.

4K on phones,and beyond 8k for home use. I find it hard to justify 8k for home use but I can slightly . Technology without benefit is just that

[HippY]

 

EDIT: I literally cant see the point in these tho You cant even stream 8K video to it from whatever device, try watching an 8K video and you may as well prepare a grave for bandwidth.

I can see the use of this TV

 

Not gaming and "I go home  and watch a movie "style" as it is cost $13000 ish, but if you have an expensive hotel or watch store, and you want to show your customers the best thing that you can offer, then you can take some really high res image or make a movie about your hotel and play it there. It is a very niche market indeed

[Misanthrope]

I'd be nice if they introduced a few thousand 8k movies or a GPU 5 times stronger than a titan x to go along with it though.

[RH00D]

I'm sitting here on my couch with a 1080p TV mounted on my wall 10 feet away and It's impossible for me to tell difference between 720p and 1080p. I have a hard time telling the difference between 480p and 1080p at this distance if you exclude the black bars on the sides.

 

Depends on the source content you are viewing. All satellite/cable TV, etc. is 720p no matter what. That's what they broadcast in (at least in North America), and they also use pretty abysmal bit rates. But I can tell a huge difference between 720p cable TV and a 1080p Blu-Ray on the same TV at the same viewing distance (I have a 50" LG 1080p LCD TV and viewing from about 10 feet away.)

 

But yeah, bit rates are a huge part of the equation as well that many people forget.

[PudgyAstronaut]

4 Titan X's overclocked under water.

...might get you 30, maybe.

[Gofspar]

...might get you 30, maybe.

Two Titan X's get you around 30 in BF4.

 

So around 40-50.