More 8KTV options are starting to emerge, and prices are finally coming down. Now is the time to answer all of your 8K questions. Are you ready for the future?
When it comes to the TV resolution wars, nothing can stand in the way of progress. When once the world thought 4K was the be-all, end-all, in came 8K to blow us away yet again. 8K TV models have steadily been arriving in stores and online for the last couple of years — so it’s never too late to start familiarizing yourself with 8K Ultra HD.
A brief history of 8K TV Just as 4K TVs were beginning to take off, 8K started appearing . While display panels had been shown earlier, Sharp showed off the first actual 8K TV at CES 2013 with an impressive 85-inch model. In 2015, Sharp would also be the first company to sell an 8K TV, another 85-inch monster priced at $133,000.
So that’s it, right? All we need to do is look for that logo and we’re guaranteed that we’re getting a high-quality 8K model? Not so fast. The 8K Association’s membership includes many of the top TV makers such as Samsung, Panasonic, Hisense, and TCL. However, LG is not among the member companies. That’s likely because LG has taken a stand over what it considers “real 8K.”
And the field for 8K TVs is finally starting to open up, with the 2021 models that debuted at last year’s CES now available, as well as some of the TVs announced at CES 2022, offering a greater selection of both sizes and prices. Sony’s 2021 Sony XR Z9J thoroughly impressed our intrepid reviewer, Caleb Denison, and you can still get both the 75- and 85-inch varieties for a reasonable $4,999 and $7,999, respectively. But for 2022, the Z9J elevates from its “Full-Array LED” and gets the mini-LED treatment for the latest iteration, the flagship Bravia XR Z9K.
But there are some sources you can go to for 4K content. In November 2017, video-streaming site Vimeo added support for 8K, and it now has over 11,000 videos tagged as 8K. YouTube got on the 8K bandwagon even earlier, and it too boasts thousands of 8K videos.
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