CES 2019 News: TV manufacturers announce 8K Association

Sonic67

Link please.

From Home Cinema Choice. Jan 2019.

                                                                       

addyeddy

If sales are good why are a major retailer that's struggling like HMV not benefitting? Physical disc sales were down, what, 30% over Christmas?

connect

This is the first time whereby I just don’t care. I embraced 4K as soon as I could and the difference over Full HD is there for sure. But it’s not the difference between DVD and Blu Ray in my opinion. The main difference to the eye is the colour.

8K may be ok for 100” displays plus. But what other real world situations do we need 8K? Certainly not in the home.

Sonic67

Because people are buying online. Physical high street shops have to pay high rents. How's Amazon doing?

Coulson

Because of the way 4K has been marketed people will assume that there will be a big difference no matter what TV you buy. There is only a real discernible  difference between HD and 4k HDR with the right TV and the right source content. How do you market that? This is where the disappointment you feel is already being expressed in many forums. It would be interesting to see if they try to market 8K over the bones of 4K. By that I mean they could say "we know 4K wasn't that great but try 8K, it really is great!". I don't think they will do this but although marketing is practically a science, the aim is always to stop you from thinking and just to make you "feel" something is right. This works especially well with things where most people don't really have a clue like technology and politics.

Sonic67

Presumably you went from DVD to Blu-ray to UHD. DVDs still sell very well.

You probably also have updated your Home Cinema in increments.

If you had a small TV and then bought a big TV would you notice your old DVDs looked bad?

If you then jumped to UHD would you notice?

Sonic67

Most people probably already have HD Ready or at best 1080p TVs. Buying a new 8K TV is marketed at them and I'm sure they will notice the difference. The older the TV you have the more you will notice stuff like this when you upgrade.

In the same way if you buy a new mobile phone every year you don't notice the difference. The differences are very small.

If you went from a Samsung S6 to an S10 you would.

Over by there

This association would pique my interest more if the major firms involved in delivery were on board, I get the feeling of "push the panels out" more than "how we going to do it" from reading the press release and commentary from other parts of the web?

There are already some standards out there. This also needs ISP's, and code/decode (VVC on the way....). OTA in the UK I doubt, IPTV, yes but needs faster speeds to the home.

I did appreciate the difference with 4k on the demo panel I saw. I read the upscaling is very good. But I suspect my next panel will be a 4k unless there are some dramatic improvements between now and a few years time. Things are moving very quickly.

Phobia16

If the technology is there may as well push on with it. As a consumer you don't have to purchase it. If you have a flagship 4k HDR you use it until it breaks outside of warranty and then you upgrade to whatever is available then, such as 8k. This resolution jumping is to try and get you to upgrade your kit. Just be happy with what you have got and enjoy the progress of technology.

Over by there

It will be interesting to see how much content is available in say 18 months time. With 8K, I will be watching the pro camera, ISP speeds, delivery (encompassing a lot of the ways and means to get it to your TV) and content.

Just checked the local fortune teller shop and they are all out of crystal balls so who knows which way it will go.