Samsung and Warner Bros. Partner to Showcase 8K Movie Trailers on Neo QLED Screens
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Agonist
Of course they showed barbie.
Barf.
Maybe by 2030 we will have 4k broadcast for our 8k TVs.
Besides handful stuff on Netflix and Amazon. Barely 4k content out there. Not paying for 4k on YouTube.
Hilarious they are even pushing 8k.
Took TVs 20 years to become an HD standard.
tunejunky
a marriage brokered by the devil
Sammy needed content (but are limited by storage reqs X # of venues)
WB needed eyeballs willing to see entire ads - and YT ain't nearly as good
as the disfigured guy explained his love of prostitutes - "it's easier and i don't face rejection"
schmidtbag
Gotta start somewhere. While I don't see myself going 8K any time soon (if ever), it will eventually get here and we're going to need a backlog of content for it. So long as you're sitting at the appropriate distance relative to the screen size, I would say 5K is pretty much as good as we "need" to get, but for anyone sitting closer or for more immersive experiences, 8K will have a market.
Valken
8K is totally useful. 55 or larger screens with 8K for work is great. Imagine 2x wide screen 4K screens side by side for work, but seamless with additional pixels and height!
Of course, if I was a marketing guru at WB, I would put out 8K remasters of BATMAN and Zack Snyder Justice League cut in full frame 8K, not that crazy 4:3 or 5:4 ratio artistic crap... or something totally EPIC like Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy to sell up the hardcore cinema fans.
But we only have 2 kidneys and 1 liver to sell off...
schmidtbag
Assuming your eyesight is fine, there's 2 reasons to get a larger display: to increase immersion, or to view from a larger distance. If the former then yes, you'll want more than 4K for a 55". If the latter then as long as you're about 2m away, you won't really benefit from a greater pixel density.
Valken
If work, I would be ARMS length away.
Gaming I would lean back.
Cinema, I would want 80" or larger @ 8K and I would sit as close or far to enjoy it. or empty room with a big comfy bean bag chair or even sleeping bag... It would be in my man cave or private cinema anyways so whatever to enjoy it...
Agonist
Im tired of the K res battle. I just want 21:9 TVs to be the nomral. 16:9 sucks anymore.
schmidtbag
I disagree - you couldn't pay me to use 21:9. In fact, I kinda wish 16:10 would make a comeback, since that's the closest common aspect ratio to human vision.
RED.Misfit
But you got a tons of movies and tv series available on UHD blu-ray today.
So UHD content is everywhere. Of course if you're only viewing TV broadcast, there may be less content available.
geogan
Hollywood will NEVER produce anything more than a 4K digital intermediate (DI) for any movie for a very long time, if ever. Even now most movie releases only get a 2K DI, and then up-scaled for 4K disc release (another con they get away with)
IMDB:
BARBIE - Digital Intermediate(4K, master format)
Dune 2 - ARRIRAW(4.5K, source format, Digital Intermediate(4K, master format)
Aquaman 2 - Digital Intermediate(4K, master format)
Source format is irrelevant,.... the master is the final size that everyone, effects houses etc work on.
eg Aquaman 1 - ARRIRAW(3.4K, source format), Digital Intermediate(2K, master format)
90% of Hollywood movies for last 30 years are only 2K DI - most 4K Blurays are AI upscales from that 2K master only.
There will never be 8K releases because the cost and time to render to 8K would always be too slow and too much for them to pay studios for.
But most people don't understand this, and the manufacturers get away with spouting bullshit as usual.
H83
No problem, DLSS is here to save the day!!!:p
GoldenTiger
This... Plus games. Also, it isn't that the content isn't there (re: youtube 4k), just that he refuses to pay for it.
Regarding the upscaling talk above, most 4k UHD blurays aren't upscales.
Agonist
Not one single race broad cast is in 4k. Alot are barely 1008p. Thats what I watch for the most part and care about.
16:10 is a complete terrible aspect ratio for video. and sucked for gaming. 21:9 is far better for both. 32:9 is terrible for video but great for gaming. I love dinosaurs stuck in 2006.
GoldenTiger
Nah. 16:10 was awesome. 16:9 is too skinny vertically, and higher than that is just nastiness.
mikeysg
When I move to my new apartment, I'm eyeing a 65" to 75" 4K TV, doesn't necessarily be OLED as they are still rather expensive compared to others. I can live with the PQ difference as long I get 4K with HDR10+/Dolby Vision (or both)....and perhaps >60Hz in case I wanna game, though 60Hz 4K is just fine.
HybOj
100%. I was never able to leave 16:10. Once u get used to this, everything else u try is subpar.
Also... yes, the Barbie. Show this to me, so I know never to buy your products.
HybOj
When you say this, you are always wrong.
NewTRUMP Order
When you say this "You are always wrong" is inaccurate. Anybody remember Beta vs Vhs, Beta this will never be....;)
geogan
Most UHD discs are produced from older 2K DI masters - since that is all that most older movies were mastered in - only newer very high-budget movies have the money to master to a 4K DI, or if the old movie was shot on film and special enough to have a re-master and 4K scan of negatives done. How do you get a 4K pixel disc output from a 2K resolution master source format?
ttnuagmada
There is just no market for an 8K television. High quality 35mm film is roughly 4Kish resolution, so you're not going to see anybody going back to turn film into 8K releases, because there wouldn't be a point. Aside from some Christopher Nolan movies and a handful of others that have a few shots in IMAX 70mm or Panavision, about the only thing that's going to make use of an 8K TV is IMAX 70mm documentaries. Even movies shot in Panavision are mostly from the 60's, so I'd be willing to bet the benefit wouldn't really be there. Hell even the ARRI Alexa 65, which is arguably the best digital cinema camera out right now, only shoots in 6.5K.
There's not going to be the same demand for 8K, it's basically only going to be useful for stuff shot in the last few years and only on specific cameras.
