CES 2019 News: TV manufacturers announce 8K Association

Steve Withers

A number of major TV manufacturers have formed the 8K Association to set standards for the Ultra HD resolution format.
Read the news.

Killzone

Associations for HDMI , 4k 8k what a waste

KishB

Yup, what a waste. Surely a single tv body would do? Or am I completely mad.

Scotty Pro

I liked this bit.... TCL will become a global leader in 8K display technology and push our partners, both streaming services and manufacturers, to provide consumers with the best possible content in this emerging new market

More than half the UltraHD discs that are available are not even 4K, they need to get that right first before spinning the 8K yarn

addyeddy

I feel the public will take a heck of a lot of convincing to embrace 8k after the lukewarm reception and support provided for UHD and 4k in general, plus sales of 4k uhd discs appear to be in the toilet. The quantity of available material is lamentable. There will be some with more money than sense obviously  but even AV enthusiasts are likely to be cautious.

Matson

I doubt 8K will ever come via discs. It would need to much space and I just don't see 8K discs happening. I think 4K will be where discs stop. 8K will most likely come from streaming services.

Killzone

Unless you have seriously good WiFi streaming  8 k will be a no go, could be 5 years or more for t.v. stations to get in on the act, even Netflix .long life in 4k

1080 jawbreaker

after 8k what will the manufacturers try and sell us?  Im all for capturing content at 8k and scaling it to 4k. It looks better than if captured at a native 4k, just as HD looks better when scaled from a 4k source.

Who was the guy responsible for 1 of those hd optimiser discs who said that to take maximum advantage of 4k in terms of resolution you need to be viewing on a 85"   screen. So whats required for the full 8k experience.  The 85"  8k Samsung I had a look at in Fenwicks didn't look anything spectacular, it was only because the display area touted it as being 8k otherwise I would have said it was 4k.

Coulson

It depends on how they market it I supposed. If it is marketed as a high end thing (which it almost certainly will) then 4K  will be for the enthusiast and Blu Ray will be from those who want to upgrade to the new fangled HD technology.

As for bandwidth, 4K kind of only works because of HDR since the vast majority of users will never see anything like proper 4K with the limited bandwidth they have. But HDR can easily make up for that. I also can't see how 8K will work for at least another 5 years when "maybe" a critical mass of users will be on cable and fibre.

Hoku

Perhaps the 8K Association could communicate the following questions to their industry partners and broadcasters:

Why are you still broadcasting in SD?
Why do you charge extra for premium 'HD' channels when manufacturers are selling 4k sets as the industry minimum?
Why are you still producing SD DVD's?

We've barely got as far as HD being the industry baseline, let alone 4 or 8K.

And to be fair, the majority of people really don't notice or care about quality. Same with music.