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LG Display Claims Apple Will Release the 'iMac 8K' Later This Year

Piggie said:
As we had/have the same (sort of) accepted standards:

720p
1080i
1080p
4K
8K

The latter two being used in "The Industry" before they find their way eventually to consumers.

Can anyone remind me why Apple decided to come out with something totally non standard in 5K, which I'm guessing will just turn into a white elephant device.

Apart from the fact of course than someone was able to build the panel and Apple fitted their panel just for the sake of it.
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I think there were two reasons.

1. If you edit 4k video, you can view it pixel-for-pxiel and have your tools visible on the screen.

2. It allowed Apple to say they had the highest resolution in the industry.

I find my iMac 5k totally awesome and I can't see any benefit from going beyond that. I was foaming at the mouth to get a retina iMac, but 8k for me would be the same thing as offering 16 processors. I don't do anything that could take advantage of it.
 
Macboy Pro said:
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.
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So a new timing controller to fulfill the needs that the industry standard (display port 1.2) can't isn't innovation? Right. :rolleyes:
 
I'M NOT GONNA BUY AN IMAC NOW, GONNA WAIT FOR VERSION 2 OF THE 8K, NEVER BUY VERSION ONE.

(puts money away until 2018....)

:rolleyes:
 
rei101 said:
4. The only reason they are increasing resolution is for you to replace your computers and TVs, other wise factories would have to close because we do not need such resolutions in our day to day, people are having a blast watching Youtube videos and Vines, what mater is the message of the content, not the resolution of it.
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While I do feel that 8K is kinda silly right now, this sounds like something Nintendo said about their past several consoles.
 
I remember NHK was demoing 8K at their NAB booth around 10 years ago. They also had a 22.2 sound system to go with it. I dont think this is anything new for Japan, they've been working towards this for awhile.

But, I think the mention of the iMac must have been a mistake.
 
This is beyond stupid. 4K isn't even the industry standard yet. Not only that, everything not in at least 4K will look like crap on an 8K display. I wish Apple would focus on things like better GPUs.
 
dexterbell said:
This is beyond stupid. 4K isn't even the industry standard yet. Not only that, everything not in at least 4K will look like crap on an 8K display. I wish Apple would focus on things like better GPUs.
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First off, we don't know Apple is going 8K.

Second, Apple doesn't make GPUs.
 
They might have just meant that Apple will be putting thunderbolt 3 in their computers in late 2015, which supports up to 8k. 8k would only make sense on a really large screen. They'd also need a desktop-class GPU to drive it, so basically just the Mac Pro.
 
rei101 said:
8K?

1. I have been doing a render of 3 minutes for 2 days of only polygons in HD. Forget about do it for 5K and unrealistic to do it for 8K.

2. You can have a 60 inches TV, but from the distance of your couch, you eye will not tell the difference between HD or 4K just because our eyes does not have that resolution from that distance, we are not eagles. Forget about 8K.

3. You may have 4K TV with a 4K signal from your cable operator, but the compression will give you an equivalent to HD from your Bluray Disc.

4. The only reason they are increasing resolution is for you to replace your computers and TVs, other wise factories would have to close because we do not need such resolutions in our day to day, people are having a blast watching Youtube videos and Vines, what mater is the message of the content, not the resolution of it.
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I can quite clearly see the pixelation on my 60" TV when I watch it, and its not even an LCD screen with nice, sharp boundaries. Can people stop saying this? 4k TVs look much better than 1080p TVs at any size at or above 60".
 
Man, reading through the first few pages has been awesome. There has been some seriously funny posts with some great sarcasm! Love it!!
 
Note that the resolutions on that chart (especially 2K) and the scale are totally wrong...
 
Nah, waiting for direct-to-brain-interface, because human eyes won't see the difference between 5K an 8K.
 
Derived said:
I can quite clearly see the pixelation on my 60" TV when I watch it, and its not even an LCD screen with nice, sharp boundaries. Can people stop saying this? 4k TVs look much better than 1080p TVs at any size at or above 60".
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if it's not LCD, what technology are you using?
what are you using the drive it? whats your source of media?

you'd be surprised how many people are powering very high end displays, with low quality content without realizing.
 
This is stupid. 8K? Am I the only one who thinks this is stupid? So all processing power is going to go to the screen now, and we won't be able to run any apps that need additional power. I'm happy with my rMBP 15" screen @ 220 PPI. Sure, Apple could double that resolution, and I wouldn't pay $1 more because that's not something I need. Not going to give up performance for higher resolution which I don't need.
 
furi0usbee said:
This is stupid. 8K? Am I the only one who thinks this is stupid? So all processing power is going to go to the screen now, and we won't be able to run any apps that need additional power. I'm happy with my rMBP 15" screen @ 220 PPI. Sure, Apple could double that resolution, and I wouldn't pay $1 more because that's not something I need. Not going to give up performance for higher resolution which I don't need.
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Apple has long LONG moved out of the 'gamers' market. They have no real intention of worrying about driving anything other than OS and GUI level graphics.

I don't think they (and to be honest, MOST users who don't game) care that their 4/5/8k desktops won't be able to game at native resolutions. As long as it can handle the GUI and your day to day tasks, thats what Apple is for
 
I'm not a videographer, but I think it might help to have a display slightly higher than 8K. That way, you can have pixel for pixel editing, plus room for tools/palettes. Just a thought.

However, I don't think GPUs are quite there yet, nor is the connection (i.e. DisplayPort).
 
Piggie said:
Can anyone remind me why Apple decided to come out with something totally non standard in 5K, which I'm guessing will just turn into a white elephant device.
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They did it for one simple reason. It is exactly double the horizontal and vertical resolution of the normal iMac so the scaling is perfect. For every 1 pixel on the old display there is now four pixels.

This allowed them to keep the same desktop space (objects appear the exact same size on screen) while increasing sharpness by 4 times.

They did the exact same thing with the iPhone, iPad and 15" Retina MacBook Pro. They doubled the horizontal and vertical pixel quantity creating displays with exactly 4x the pixel density.

Had they used a 4K panel on the iMac its desktop resolution would have been 1920x1200 which would have been a significant downgrade from the 2560x1440 desktop space the original 27" iMac had.
 
New screen technology is just a small link in the production chain and without the other links merely exists in a vacuum. That, and Apple will have to cool the graphics cards with liquid helium.
 
MacDarcy said:
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!:)
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Ah, the new MacBooks support 4K. And yeah, 640K should be enough for anyone...

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furi0usbee said:
This is stupid. 8K? Am I the only one who thinks this is stupid? So all processing power is going to go to the screen now, and we won't be able to run any apps that need additional power. I'm happy with my rMBP 15" screen @ 220 PPI. Sure, Apple could double that resolution, and I wouldn't pay $1 more because that's not something I need. Not going to give up performance for higher resolution which I don't need.
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So it's stupid because you don't need it? It seems to upset you that someone other than you might find a use for this.
 
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