Looking Ahead: 8K TV ready for the market by LG
The standard 4K is finding the final consecration of the market but is already looking to the future to the 8K, still far from becoming a commercial option but LG is declared ready with a solution on the show at CES.
The standard 4K is increasingly a reality for users, with products that are characterized by different technologies and qualitative made without prejudice to the high resolution. This allows you to develop TVs with diagonals very high, making the most of the very large number of pixels in each image.
Not missing, in a feria focused on technology as the CES in Las Vegas, one I look to the future: in the case of LG we talk about a TV with a diagonal of 98 inches featuring a resolution of 8K, with a number of pixels that is then four times one of the solutions 4K commercially. A show of force by the Korean company? Not really: LG makers have ensured as this product, like all those shown in the booth at CES, is ready to enter the market within 12 months.
Hard to think of a commercial future, especially for a solution of this type within the next year, but it is significant to note that in order to LG this is not a prototype but a technological solution ready for the market.
It remains of course to understand with what timing the standard 8K will find a broad market; at the present time, we are struggling with what 4K and with the need to have available video content that are able to exploit the peculiarities. We saw at CES 2016 as the various companies in this ecosystem are working to reach a shared and unique proposal, combining high resolution even the use of HDR technology, which thanks to achieve a significant increase in dynamic range and quality total playback.
Shown by LG, then, but the same can be said for products 8K that other companies have exhibited at CES 2016, is a solution that can be ready for marketing in a relatively short time but has yet to find the software component the perfect match leading to generate a market demand. That, like what we have seen in the past with various standard high definitions, it will take time to develop, and considerable investment for the first compatible products.
