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New DisplayPort 1.4a Standard Points to 8K Notebook and All-in-One Desktop Displays in 2016

That will be both impressive and pointless (from my non-pro) perspective.

I don't even see the move to Retina as worth it, particularly over the loss of hardware features (I bought a refurbished 2012 15" cMBP with high-res anti glare screen from the Apple Store yesterday for that reason).

Don't get me wrong, I would love a Retina screen on my 17 or 15, but NOT at the expense of connectivity, upgradeability, repairability or expandability.

Anything past Retina would be somewhat whoopteedoo, except for the most demanding of professionals, I guess.
 
yeah I have no desire to have an 8k display. Sure a little bump up from my 2010 iMac in terms of clarity would be fine but I certainly don't have any issues with that display and I think its only 1080 on a 21.5 inch display
 
8k and 4k is stillborn.

The problem is that consumers are still happily and obviously consuming only poor quality content than their TV's are capable, and Apple is to blame.

Rent or buy a movie off Apple, it is Full HD and 5.1 compressed sound, actually pretty crap quality movie compared to Blu-Ray's. When Apple decides to support 4K movies is anyones guess, but Apple will still push out inferior quality video and audio which consumers are happily and ignorantly consuming.

Even "videophiles" that might want to enjoy 4K or eve 8K content are blocked by the fact that nobody is actually offering good quality content, not even in physical formats. Sure Netflix might stream 4K to clients on these 4K TV's, but again it is highly compressed and 5.1 audio, hardly worth someones 7.1+ high end home theater setup or investment in an 80" 4K screen.

Consumers took a huge step backwards quality wise by opting instead for convenience. It's part of the lazy culture we have become. Why get off your ass and rent a movie on Blu-ray and instead rent something twice the price on your TV or set-top device. Same happened with music when consumers opted first for CD "quality" and then chose to want highly compressed MP3's. The average consumer is oblivious to how much better things can look and sound.

As long as companies like Apple and Netflix support ******** quality content, there is no point to 4K, 5K, 8K or anything higher. There is no point to having more the 2 speakers because even the audio offered by these companies is substandard. And on top of that most Tier 1 ISP's limit and throttle this content so that you can't even choose the highest quality these companies offer because you will reach a data cap quickly. I ran out 4 days early on a 320gb data cap by watching Netflix on high quality for 2 hours a day and I am forced to use the middle quality option.

The technology is available, and consumers seem to rush to buy what they think is the best quality devices available and then they go and show how stupid they are by buying and supporting things like Apple TV and Netflix and not demanding better because they don't know any different.
 
J. Jizzle said:
What do we need 8K for at this moment? We are just now getting devices that can actually record in true 4K, so what's the point of having screens that can handle 8K when there aren't any devices that can record in that true of a resolution?

If Apple is charging $2500 for a standard configured 5K iMac I can only scream in horror at what an 8K iMac would cost!! :eek:
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It's the industry preparing standards for the future. Calm down.
 
Aren't 8K screens in 2016 a bit optimistic?

HD is pretty much default, and 4K is emerging. 5K screens in computing are still brand new.

Most phones are 2K max - its debatable whether 4K on a phone is even worth the bigger battery/GPU needed at the moment. After all, 4K on 5" is >880 pixels per inch, plenty more than even the harshest estimates of "pixels so small your eyes can't see them".
 
8K is going to kill most graphic cards for years. Don't count on it, it's only future-proof as a standard, so they won't need to work on DisplayPort 1.5 next year.
 
one big curved 50 inch screen as a work-panel would be nice, surely beats having bezels in the way. but size wise, anything smaller than 140 ppi is just annoying. i like the screen realestate, don't need the super high res 16k in a mobile phone at all. waste of pixels.
 
Meanwhile, my AT&T U-Verse Internet connection continues to chug along at 10-20 Kbps. Downloading an 8K video would feel like dialup…
 
I don't think this announcement really has much of anything to do with running 8k displays in a laptop, it's about being able to drive multiple high resolution displays from the single displayport output built into the laptop; something that current devices like the rMBP can't do. This development would allow a laptop to have the bandwidth to drive two 5k monitors - something that people are going to want to be doing in the not too distant future.
 
"Introducing the stunningly beautiful iMac with Retina 8K display.

Powered by the latest Intel Iris Pro graphics."

:p
 
5k

Frankly, the iMac 5K was less impressive in person than I thought it was going to be. Yes, if I were buying a computer, it would be the one that I would buy. Yes, it is arguably the best personal computer in the world attached to one of the best screens money can buy. But it didn't seem much better than the iMacs sitting right next to it.

8K will be even less of an incremental improvement from 5K. Nicer colors and such will be nice, but it is getting less and less useful.

And I'm sure I'm years away from my IP encouraging streaming of 4K video. And I don't blame them either. My GF streams a ton of shows and I stream basketball games and movies. We are hammering that internet line. I love that it is super fast, but can I really ask them to handle ten times the content so that I can watch a slightly sharper version of the walking dead?

Besides I'd need a new Apple TV. And god knows when that hardware will get updated.
 
I just want a stand alone TB display at 5K to use with my MP. Sure 8K would be nice but I am willing to compromise. ;)
 
winston1236 said:
Wouldn't make a difference because there isn't any 8k content available.

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No, because again there isn't any content being produced in this format.
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I've read that Baraka was scanned at 8k for restoration and then downsampled to 2k for BluRay. So yes, there is some content in 8k.
 
J. Jizzle said:
What do we need 8K for at this moment? We are just now getting devices that can actually record in true 4K, so what's the point of having screens that can handle 8K when there aren't any devices that can record in that true of a resolution?

If Apple is charging $2500 for a standard configured 5K iMac I can only scream in horror at what an 8K iMac would cost!! :eek:
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Building bridges to nowhere, 8K playback, minting US pennies. What do they all have in common? Hum? Because we can! :-D
 
In the real world, what we're actually lacking is not an 8K laptop or even an 8K iMac, we're lacking the ability to have an external 5K display. Just let the embedded standard lie fallow for a minute and get the plug standard up to snuff.
 
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