Ultra High Def tv on the way!

Richard Dower

Now....where can i get a 8k 155 inch OLED tv?


http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/01/itu-ultra-hdtv-3d-tv-standards/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvaQZHBBKyE

wes

I think there jumping the gun a bit too soon on this. 3DTV didn't exactly do that great, and a lot of people still even haven't jumped to HDTV yet.

I reckon if they start selling 8K sets now, they will come down in price pretty quick, as no one will be buying them. Especially as there is little to no 4k or 8k content.

Maybe when video game consoles make the jump to those resolution, there may be some up take.

ScumLord

wes wrote: »

I think there jumping the gun a bit too soon on this. 3DTV didn't exactly do that great, and a lot of people still even haven't jumped to HDTV yet.

They'll have no choice but to jump to HD when they go to buy they're next TV though.

Its also more likely that these high resolution TV would remain expensive, especially if there isn't a players that can take advantage. The only thing that drives down the cost of products is more sales not a lack of uptake.

squonk

I've no problem with even higher def but I think right now the TV manufacturers are inventing reasons to make us update our sets.

By all accounts Blu Ray should have taken off big. People are still pretty happy with DVDs however. That physical media segment is dying however due to downloadable content. No more than for Cinema, 3D is the latest effort to give Blu Ray a bit of a hoorah but, right now, it's not exactly going down a bomb either.

Now the tech is fantastic and, right now, there's a heap of talk in the PC world of Retina Displays that are as good as paper. I can see UHDTV as being beyond that which is great but I'm not sure we even have the infrastructure yet to transmit that amount of data. Perhaps in 10 years there'll be infrastructure there.

wes

ScumLord wrote: »

They'll have no choice but to jump to HD when they go to buy they're next TV though.

True enough, but then to ask those same people to jump to 4k and 8k, will take an age.

ScumLord wrote: »

Its also more likely that these high resolution TV would remain expensive, especially if there isn't a players that can take advantage. The only thing that drives down the cost of products is more sales not a lack of uptake.

Yeah, that true enough, but in the case of 3D it did seem to be the other way around, but then 3D probably wasn't that expensive to add to HDTVs.

LeinsterDub

Didn't we reach with 1080 op the limits of what the human eye can perceive?
I can see a "need" for 4000 to give HD3D at 1080 to each eye but why 8000?