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LG Display Claims Apple Will Release the 'iMac 8K' Later This Year
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Nah, I'm waiting until I can get a wall sized TV at 300ppi or greater. What good is a TV if you can still see pixels while standing a foot away from it?
For instance, if our wall is 16ft by 9ft, then we would only need 64K, which is only 61440x34560 to get 320ppi. They'll probably announce this by CES.
As an interesting note, I briefly did a search and 8K video, which supports up to 120fps (because of course you need that too) is 48Gbps. So 64K would be like 384Gpbs. Although I'm probably screwing up some simple math somewhere with 64K being exactly 8 times 8K, which I think it should be since 4K is 4 times 1080p, which is the OG K.
Also I'm pretty sure the graphic with this article is wrong in the scale of the 4K vs. 8K. Measuring the pixels in the graphic, it's about 72% of the width of 4K, but in the real world, 3840 is 50% the width of 7680. This graphic that I found with a quick Google search seems more accurate:
I'm betting it is supposed to be some other PC manuafacture or it was simply that Apple will release the 4K 21.5" iMac later this year and it somehow got confused for 8K.
It just doesn't make sense to jump to 8K just yet with how little GPU power we have still to drive it. Maybe an 8K cinema display for a Mac Pro might make some sense. Then the question is do you do 3x and leave it at 27in or do you continue to do 2x and make it a ~40-42 screen? Both seem like interesting choices.
It just doesn't make sense to jump to 8K just yet with how little GPU power we have still to drive it. Maybe an 8K cinema display for a Mac Pro might make some sense. Then the question is do you do 3x and leave it at 27in or do you continue to do 2x and make it a ~40-42 screen? Both seem like interesting choices.
And finally! The industry was stuck on "1024x768/1366x768 is enough for everything!" for way too long. Heck, there are still laptops sold at that resolution. It would be a shame if everything was left to fester at 1920x1080 now.
This. Compression used for streaming and digital downloads makes the resolution much less meaningful. Nothing "HD" online equals the visual quality of BluRay despite it being only 1080p.
Every "FHD 1080p" show I've watched from iTunes or over-the-air has been better than DVD but quite clearly worse than BluRay. I'd rather they continue improving the compression, or just compress it less. Whatever bandwidth it'll take to stream 4k (or 8K), just use that much to stream 1080p with less compression. You'll get the same improvement to visual quality without even needing to upgrade your TV.
I wonder if a standalone display announcement doesn't come as part of a 2015 nMP announcement around the end of the year?
I found it very odd that Apple would put such a heavy emphasis on the 4K capabilities of the nMP when it was announced but then did absolutely nothing in the way of making one available (save for a third-party one that could be bought with the CTO options).
Personally, I keep trucking along with my 2011 30" ACD which I love because it's antiglare, 16:10 aspect ratio and great color accuracy. I keep a faint hope alive that Apple will one day release a cinema display in a higher resolution with those options, but I'm not holding my breath...
I found it very odd that Apple would put such a heavy emphasis on the 4K capabilities of the nMP when it was announced but then did absolutely nothing in the way of making one available (save for a third-party one that could be bought with the CTO options).
Personally, I keep trucking along with my 2011 30" ACD which I love because it's antiglare, 16:10 aspect ratio and great color accuracy. I keep a faint hope alive that Apple will one day release a cinema display in a higher resolution with those options, but I'm not holding my breath...
8K? You can't even use the new 4K as an external monitor with your MacBooks yet! They haven't even updated the Cinema Display to 4k yet! And the upcoming Apple TV won't even have 4k streaming yet. wtf? Let technology catch up Alittle first apple. Sheesh!
It is other companies technology that they will be using to get 8K (if they get 8K). Their innovation has nothing to do with it which is why they can't get a 4K Cinema display in production yet. Apple is so focused on making things small and marketing gimmicks that they are not innovating function. The 5k iMac was a gimmick in my opinion.
On that chart, the naming conventions for from vertical resolution (1K) to horizontal (4K,8K). What a confusing piece of garbage.
These resolutions have got to come to an end.
1080p was awesome, I have to be at about 2.5 meters of my 50" TV to distinguish the pixels. With 4K, I have to be at much less than a meter with the same size, which will never happen because I care for my eyes. All that amounts to saturated networks and more time to export and etc. It's NOT necessary.
HOWEVER, an 8K computer could be used to generate a 4K video, and have the preview of your video take the quarter of your screen. If it's about something else, I'm not jumping in this train.
1080p was awesome, I have to be at about 2.5 meters of my 50" TV to distinguish the pixels. With 4K, I have to be at much less than a meter with the same size, which will never happen because I care for my eyes. All that amounts to saturated networks and more time to export and etc. It's NOT necessary.
HOWEVER, an 8K computer could be used to generate a 4K video, and have the preview of your video take the quarter of your screen. If it's about something else, I'm not jumping in this train.