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Cool, that means 4K TV/monitors will have lower prices!

I have only just last week upgraded from a 1080p Sony LED TV to a 4K LG OLED TV, mainly because the time is now right as I have (up to!) 4K consoles, 4K UHD Blu-rays and 4K streaming services such as NetFlix, Amazon Video and YouTube.I have been putting it off for the last 3 years though because until this year there really would have been no point having a 4K TV when most of the content I watched was 1080p or sub-4K console games. Really do not see why TV companies are releasing 8K TVs at a time when most TV content is 1080p and likely will be for years to come due to bandwidth restrictions. Most people I know who have 4K TVs don't actually watch much 4K content anyway with most stuff being 1080p! Some of those people don't even understand what 4K means and others think they are watching 4K from standard definition sources such as DVD!!! It's ridiculous really the way TV manufacturers literally keep trying to run before they can walk. I can see why they do it; it's the same reason mobile phone companies keep pushing higher resolution and faster phones even though most people actually do not need them. They have to make people want to buy their stuff by promoting it as being bigger and better than everything before it. 8K though is pointless right now IMO for the vast majority of people; streaming services only offer a minimal amount of 4K content and 8K discs are not available. To benefit from 8K, you really need larger screen sizes, sizes that would be far too big for most people's homes even if the content was available. Maybe 8K will be handy for professionals who do video editing or movies but even for PC gaming the specs required to actually use at playable framerates is beyond practically everyone! No, I'm very happy with 4K right now and will be for years until such time as the majority of content is 4K and there is actually enough 8K content to justify upgrading again. I don't see that being for another decade though.

The voice or reason and logic is not heard over the noise generated by people stumbling, pushing each other to buy 8K TV, because bigger, better, ain't? Like in school is important, but muscles are importanter, right? We are surrounded by tons of people we know(not as close friends) who bought 4K TVs and constantly bragging about it in each meeting we've had. Now, I'm betting to hear very close in the future about upgrades to 8K TVs, just because they exist and they have it, and they are special, somehow. /rant end

Darren Hodgson:

I have only just last week upgraded from a 1080p Sony LED TV to a 4K LG OLED TV, mainly because the time is now right as I have (up to!) 4K consoles, 4K UHD Blu-rays and 4K streaming services such as NetFlix, Amazon Video and YouTube.I have been putting it off for the last 3 years though because until this year there really would have been no point having a 4K TV when most of the content I watched was 1080p or sub-4K console games. Really do not see why TV companies are releasing 8K TVs at a time when most TV content is 1080p and likely will be for years to come due to bandwidth restrictions. Most people I know who have 4K TVs don't actually watch much 4K content anyway with most stuff being 1080p! Some of those people don't even understand what 4K means and others think they are watching 4K from standard definition sources such as DVD!!! It's ridiculous really the way TV manufacturers literally keep trying to run before they can walk. I can see why they do it; it's the same reason mobile phone companies keep pushing higher resolution and faster phones even though most people actually do not need them. They have to make people want to buy their stuff by promoting it as being bigger and better than everything before it. 8K though is pointless right now IMO for the vast majority of people; streaming services only offer a minimal amount of 4K content and 8K discs are not available. To benefit from 8K, you really need larger screen sizes, sizes that would be far too big for most people's homes even if the content was available. Maybe 8K will be handy for professionals who do video editing or movies but even for PC gaming the specs required to actually use at playable framerates is beyond practically everyone! No, I'm very happy with 4K right now and will be for years until such time as the majority of content is 4K and there is actually enough 8K content to justify upgrading again. I don't see that being for another decade though.

The only reason we have as wide adoption of 4k content is because early users as far back as 2012 started buying the sets and content creators slowly wanted to provide them with something to watch. Now that 4k is pretty much standard the tv makers must provide something higher again so early adopters can buy then ask for content and content providers see "some" audience who they can provide a little content for and so on and so on. Early adopters know that the content will only come if there's a reason for them to make it (so they buy sets with no content) and they know in the mean time that newer high end displays can do wonders with lower res content and that the 4k content we know have plenty of WILL look its best upscaled by a really good 8k TV's processor. The only reason now after 3 years YOU feel like it's time to buy a 4k TV is because people like ME bought one on 2013. I've enjoyed the climb through 3 4k sets since then and I'm now at peak of what 4k can really offer (2019 65" LG C9 OLED) and I'll be happy with it for 2 years or so then I'll buy a 8k and start the process all over in 6 to 8 years I'm sure you'll be ready once again to upgrade. See you then!

I don't buy LG tvs/monitors/cellphones anymore, too many deceptions with this brand, build quality and longevity of components are probably the worse i had with any brand yet. Hopefully their highest end models don't suffer from this, but i will not ever want to give it the doubt.

Here we go again. 😀

Burn ins in 2019, qled anytime anyday.

Witcher29:

Burn ins in 2019, qled anytime anyday.

I'm hoping for microLED to get launched

Witcher29:

Burn ins in 2019, qled anytime anyday.

Yeah, QLED is great if you want to blow burn-in way out of proportion and aren't concerned with having the best image quality. It's great to have the peace of mind that you won't have to deal with something that the vast majority of OLED owners already don't have to deal with anyway, and you'll get inferior PQ at a higher price to boot! I'd be smug too!

Kaleid:

I'm hoping for microLED to get launched

You won't see a consumer level mLED monitor or TV for at least another 5 years.

4k is as accessible as 1080p, HEVC has made 4k similar bandwidth to 1080p. Problem is most cable providers and such don't even use 1080p, it's usually 720p and maybe 1080i here and there.