Speaking of obsolete, even though many do not yet have 4K TVs,
8K sets are coming this year. Sharp began shipping the world's
first commercially available 8K monitor, the 70-inch, 7,680 by
4,320 Aquos LV-70X500E.
85,000 8K sets are
likely to be sold worldwide during 2018 compared to 98.4 million
4K sets. NHK in Japan has committed to inaugurating an 8K
channel on December 1, 2018 with thousands of hours of
programming. South Korea has already deployed the NextGen 4k TV
over antennas in that country and produced the Olympics for the
rest of the world in 4K. It was available in the US, but cable
companies could not broadcast it in 4K.
The World Cup,
Wimbledon, and the Premier Football League are all distributed
in 4K. However, we in the US are stuck with "selected holes" at
the Masters Tournament shown in 4K.
8K monitors will also be available in the US at the end of the
year from a variety of other brands. TCL announced its intention
to unveil its own 8K TV at the 2017 IFA show in Berlin. It is
likely that all the major Chinese TV brands will show their own
8K models at IFA 2018 and at CES 2019 in January.
The US severely lags the rest of the world and US cable
companies still are forcing us to show 720p pictures on our
1080p and 4K TV sets. The good news is that the newer 1080p and
4K smart TVs use software to greatly enhance the crappy 720p
pictures and virtually no 720p TVs are being sold these days.
Meanwhile, the rest of
the world has moved on. If it were not for Netflix, Amazon
Video, Directtv, YouTube, and Blu-ray, many in the US would not
even know the beauty of 4K, and the world is already moving
beyond it to 8K. Maybe I need a chill pill for pixel envy.
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