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DisplayPort 2.0 Supports Up to Two 8K Displays or One 16K Display, Rollout Expected to Begin in Late 2020
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This is great progress but I feel like they’re upping the K’s too fast. The 1080p standard lasted a decade and 4K/5K market penetration is still low compared to 1080p/1440p displays. While this is obviously targeted towards the pro crowd, it will be a decade before 8K+ displays are the norm for consumers. Not only is the law of diminishing returns coming into play but the bandwidth and storage required for these ultra resolutions is not worth the marginal increase in perceptible quality and there’s only so large a monitor can realistically be. Sitting a foot or less away from a 55-65” monitor just isn’t practical.
It’s similar to the TV market. 4K is just taking off right now and even then we’re still years away from most people having a high-end 4K TV truly capable of DV and HDR at home. Yet 8K TVs are already being marketed. Now 8K is part of the BT.2020 UHD spec. The problem is that we’re still years away from ATSC 3.0 aka broadcast 4K HLG HDR. And I don’t see Hollywood releasing movies in 8K anytime soon. Today most blockbuster movies still have 2K DIs due to CGI. As good as upscaling has become, the advantage from resolutions higher than 8K, at least for the consumer will be limited. To take advantage of 8K you really need 75-100” TVs and those will never become mainstream sizes due to high costs and the space required. They’re pretty much strictly for homeowners and the large condos/apartments with very large living rooms.
It’s similar to the TV market. 4K is just taking off right now and even then we’re still years away from most people having a high-end 4K TV truly capable of DV and HDR at home. Yet 8K TVs are already being marketed. Now 8K is part of the BT.2020 UHD spec. The problem is that we’re still years away from ATSC 3.0 aka broadcast 4K HLG HDR. And I don’t see Hollywood releasing movies in 8K anytime soon. Today most blockbuster movies still have 2K DIs due to CGI. As good as upscaling has become, the advantage from resolutions higher than 8K, at least for the consumer will be limited. To take advantage of 8K you really need 75-100” TVs and those will never become mainstream sizes due to high costs and the space required. They’re pretty much strictly for homeowners and the large condos/apartments with very large living rooms.
Ahh... not much... maybe 50K? 100K if its Apple branded.
Apple's $6k competes with $40k displays. Or do you think it's clever to keep beating that dead horse?
At any rate these won't touch consumers for 15 years at 16k.
my guess is this is aimed more at being able to push ti multiple displays than one big 16k screen.
not hard to imagine a pro using 3 5k screens (only 15k bust still)
I'm all for getting faster and faster transmission rates, and higher capacities even if they seem unnecessary, people will find uses for them.
The hoarder mentality in a nutshell -- bravo!I'm all for getting faster and faster transmission rates, and higher capacities even if they seem unnecessary, people will find uses for them.
Just one 16K display? Forget it. I won't even consider if I can use two, and do the math, 32k is more than 16K, so why are we wasting time with this low-res junk?
Is it me, or did displays get really stupid lately? Reminds me of the video game bit wars, or the CPU GHz wars. Same with phones and PPI on a 6" screen. So half my computing power is going to manage zillions of pixels.... thanks, no thanks.
Is it me, or did displays get really stupid lately? Reminds me of the video game bit wars, or the CPU GHz wars. Same with phones and PPI on a 6" screen. So half my computing power is going to manage zillions of pixels.... thanks, no thanks.
Everyone needs to read this before commenting. So many ridiculously unimaginative posts in this thread. Not hard to picture realistic use cases beyond a single giant screen.
100% agree!
I’m sure 4K HDR is the bees knees, but is it really so much better than a 30Mbps Blu-Ray on a high-end 1080p HDTV that I should replace my Sony HDTV and rebuy my whole Blu-Ray collection with 4K Blu-Rays? I don’t think so...the cynic in me believes 4K was invented to make me rebuy all those movies I have on DVD then I rebought in Blu-Ray...that is, if I was a cynical person.
Full disclosure: I own zero 4K TVs, I own 2 4K computer monitors.
The price probably won't be that bad, considering the spec. Perhaps around the $8,000 mark.
Unfortunately the stand required for such a monitor would be where your wallet really gets a pounding. Expect to pay at least $12,000 for a stand that could support such an awesome monitor.
When Apple releases this new stand, we will all see just how courageous Apple really are.
Even better they are making a 6k 32” monitor. Price is $5000. Plus $1000 for the stand.
Agreed that Americans (I’m one) do plenty of things backwards/strange but I’m gonna say we are right on this one.
A comma is a partial pause, a period is a full pause in English, German, French, Spanish, etc.
Therefore it follows that the full break in a number, between the whole part and the decimal part should be a full pause, the comma breaks to make reading the number easier but not strictly necessary should be the partial pause, or comma.
Ahh... not much... maybe 50K? 100K if its Apple branded.
Based on the XDR example, if you are right the next closest monitor that was not Apple branded would be $320,000-$450,000 ($5,000 vs $32,000-$45,000).
My word, the ‘haters’ are out in force!
New display port standard announced for future proofing and various other improvements such as GPU functionality and multiple display. Lots of people get fixated on 16k and go nuts....
If the new standard was limiting to one 8k display the same people would go nuts it’s not ‘future proofed’ enough..
Wow
New display port standard announced for future proofing and various other improvements such as GPU functionality and multiple display. Lots of people get fixated on 16k and go nuts....
If the new standard was limiting to one 8k display the same people would go nuts it’s not ‘future proofed’ enough..
Wow
I would like to see Apple make a media centric Mac-Mini that uses DP2 and TB3 ports. It could have a fan. It would need pretty strong processor and graphics chips. More for form factor than price point.