I'd love.me a Master series 8K TV...

8k is utterly pointless atm. 4k barely has much content

So true Immorals. Games cannot do 8K and most TV shows do not film nor broadcast in 8K. It is like having a High-End Sports Car and driving daily in L.A. gridlock.

Nah, OLED was what Sony was going after when they couldn't perfect Crystal LED back in 2012. Look it up Samsung just unveiled their version this CES. They call theirs MicroLED.

I highly doubt that we'll see any significant 8k content for at least 4-5 years. We're not even there with 4k yet. The majority of last years "4k Blu-ray" movies aren't even native 4k yet. The once that are, are quite heavily compressed. Nobody even invented a physical medium for 8k movies to be viable yet and the digital infrastructure isn't there either. While 5g might solve the bandwidth problem to a degree but data caps will probably still make 8k streaming problematic.

Also even if those problems are solved quicker than I think they'll be solved you'll still be stuck with your HDMI 2.1's 48Gbit/s Meaning your uncompressed 8k (RGB or Y′CBCR 4:4:4) will max out @~50hz for 8bit content and ~40hz for 10bit HDR content.

8k for gaming isn't even worth talking about because it would be a massive waste of recources (4k already arguably is). Going from a 2 MegaPixel framebuffer (1080p) to a 8 Megapixel framebuffer (4k) is a big step already and that's why console manufacturers have implemented tricks like checkerboard rendering to save recources. 8k would represent a 33 Megapixel framebuffer. Even Nvidia is prioritising qualitative rendering improvements like ray-tracing over resolution increses and has implemented DLSS (Deep learning super sampling) to save recources on that aspect.

Youtube creators probably won't be quick to adopt 8k either. It's just a lot more data to handle and the video processing in 4k is taking a lot of processing power already.

All of this will be amplified by the diminishing returns you get from continuing to increase the resolution. We're already facing diminishing returns with 4k meaning that we have to sit very close to a 4k display or have really large screen sizes to get the most out of 4k. The difference to 1080p is big enough though that even if we don't get the most out of 4k, it's clearly a sharper image. With 8k increasing the screen size or reducing the viewing distance introduces new problems. Namely how much of your field of view is taken up by the screen. To get the most out of 8k your TV has to take up 128° of your FOV (meaning a large portion of the screen will be in our peripheral vision). You'd have to go above 64° to even begin to see a difference compared to 4k. To be clear here is an example:

If you get a 70" 8k screen you need to sit closer than 1.35m (4.4') to it or you won't be able to see a difference compared to 4k. To get the most out of it you'd have to get as close as 0.675m or 2.2'. And that is only is true if you have 20/20 vision. If you have imperfect visual acuity these viewing distances will be even shorter.

Here is an interesting article if you are interested in a more detailed breakdown of viewing distances, resolutions and the limit of our eyes: https://www.rtings.com/tv/r...

In my opinion 8k for TV's is mostly unnecessary especially when it comes at such a large opportunity cost. It might be a good thing for VR headsets in the future though.

Sorry for writing down such a wall of text. I got carried away.

Same here! Just upgraded!

Ayyyy!!!

Personally... I think it's pointless at the moment. There's nothing to feed it, and the difference between 8k and 4k is not really noticeable. A 4k set with good HDR and a true wide color gamut is going to be about the limit of your eye, unless your running 100 inches or better.

who down votes this LOL?