8K TVs Are Here – Prepare Yourselves For Eyemageddon – Grasp 15′
8K TVs Are Here – Prepare Yourselves For Eyemageddon
So you’ve worked away like a little worker bee, desperately saved those hard earned pennies that the pesky HMRC haven’t pinched and the glorious day arrives when you can walk into your local electronics shop, head held high to purchase your very own 4K TV. 3840 glorious pixels wide by 2160 pixels high. But what is this? Oh the humanity, it can’t be……………an 8K TV???
Now you are left in tatters, depression sets in quickly. For dwarfing your pathetic 3840 x 2160 resolution little toy trinket is a 7680 x 4320 pixel leviathan………… yes that’s 7680 pixels by 4320 pixels dimension totalling a combined 33.177.600 pixels. This is the kind of resolution that allows you to watch a music festival on screen and to be able to tell what brand, flavour and shape of crisps a person is eating at the very back of the audience or simply if they are picking their nose. Truly astonishing.
The price for all this eye shattering resolution? Well, its nothing short of £85183.79 *cough*, *haemorrhage*. Yes, unsurprisingly there’s a rather hefty price tag for this kind of raw power that is still in its infancy. We are just left to wonder if the advent of this new standard of resolution will slowly start chipping away at the high cost of the existing 4K models now that it has an over-looming predecessor waiting in the wings. There’s other things to consider as well such as those creating ultra high res videos, who already find it a bit of a chore to edit and create data heavy 4K videos. They of course now have another insurmountable step up to try and keep up with. Bandwidth simply cannot handle 4k video streaming generally speaking either, which will be one for the internet service providers to try and catch up with also.
In summary its safe to assume us everyday consumers be stuck in the 1080p dark ages for at least the foreseeable future whilst TV standards continue to exceed standards currently exclusive and accessible only to the super rich or business grade markets.
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