Sharp is selling the world's first 8K TV next month for $133,000

[mustang_revival]

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/16/sharp-is-selling-the-worlds-first-8k-tv-for-133k.html

Japanese electronics company Sharp is planning to release the world's first commercially available 8K television in October and it can be yours for 16 million yen ($133,000).

8K refers to the television's resolution, which is even sharper than 4K or ultra-high definition (ultra-HD). 8K delivers 16 times the resolution of full-HD (high definition).

Sharp says the TV will go on sale on October 30 and will be an 85-inch set.
This is what the future of TVs looks like...

But should you rush out and buy this future piece of tech? Probably not, as there is no 8K content to watch.

Japan's public broadcaster is testing long-distance 8K television broadcasts, but isn't aiming to deploy it until the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Most companies are only just discussing 4K. BT Sport, a U.K. bundle of television channels, broadcast a soccer match this year in 4K and has one ultra-HD channel that shows matches occasionally. Netflix and Amazon both have a small amount of content in 4K.

And earlier this month, Samsung unveiled its first ultra-HD Blu-ray player. At the same time, Samsung announced that its current "SUHD" brand of TVs would begin supporting high-dynamic-range imaging (HDR) content. LG also unveiled a HDR-capable 4K TV – seen as the near-term future in the industry.

Images shot in HDR essentially make the contrast between light and dark colors more prominent, so the white highlights are even brighter. The purpose is to make the image on screen look more realistic.

Sharp's 8K TV will also support HDR content. But Sharp has not announced any partners that it is working with to create 8K content, whereas both LG and Samsung have said they are talking to movie studios and streaming services to release 4K programming.

Samsung has partnered with Fox so that all of its new movie releases will be brought out on ultra-HD Blu-ray. LG has struck a partnership with Amazon to allow users to stream some of the U.S. e-commerce giant's original programs such as "Transparent" in HDR quality.

Sharp showed off this 8K model at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, while Samsung took the wraps off a 110-inch 8K TV. Still, Sharp's model is the first commercially available one on the market.

[mstng86]

This is what our technology people should be working on.

Making sure our TV's are lifelike as possible and making sure we can get a good signal for it.

[LS1Goat]

Asinine.

$133K TV in which there is zero content for. There are many films that aren't even mastered in 8K. The very first true 4K Bluray players won't hit the market until next year sometime. And there is very little content for that as well.

[CWO]

the people that make the content won't make the content if there is nothing to play it on

it's the same thing every time a new resolution/technology comes out


Remember when the DVD first came out? There were like 3 brands of DVD players and literally 8 movies available. What made it worse was all of the delays for DVD itself because the studios refused to make the discs if there was not a way to play them and the DVD player manufacturers didn't want to come to market with a device if there was nothing to play on them. This is a little different obviously, but it's the same concept. Not to mention, they can say they are the first, and who doesn't want to be first?


a 42" plasma used to be about $15k when it first came out too

[A_A_G]

'16 Mustang GT350R + '17 SVT Raptor > 8k tv

[Craizie]

'16 Mustang GT350R + '17 SVT Raptor > 8k tv

100k mail order bride + 33k worth of coke > *

[Cobraman]

Hell, I can't even justify 4k yet

[Gasser64]

This is what are technology people should be working on.

You know.. nevermind cancer and all that

Hell, I can't even justify 4k yet

This

[CWO]

You know.. nevermind cancer and all that



This

Good point. The engineers at Sharp and Samsung should be trying to cure cancer. Whatya say we leave that to the people in the medical field.

Jackass.

[Craizie]

Good point. The engineers at Sharp and Samsung should be trying to cure cancer. Whatya say we leave that to the people in the medical field.

Jackass.

I wonder.... If they could make cancer killing hunter-seeker nano bots?

[CWO]

I wonder.... If they could make cancer killing hunter-seeker nano bots?

I don't see why not, they have 3d curved televisions now. Next logical step imo.

[abecx]

Didnt take long for the 5k fox body 10 second club to show up with the electronics and medical geniuses.

[Baba Ganoush]

Fucking unions killed the radio star.

[Gasser64]

Good point. The engineers at Sharp and Samsung should be trying to cure cancer. Whatya say we leave that to the people in the medical field.

Jackass.

You don't think the medical field makes use of new and improved electronics technologies?

Dumbass.

[CWO]

You don't think the medical field makes use of new and improved electronics technologies?

Dumbass.

Lol.

If the engineers that would normally be developing new technologies to make displays in higher resolutions were instead curing cancer who would.... fuck it.



You're right man.