World’s first 8K TV to go on sale next month

“8K requires a very large screen or the higher resolution becomes invisible at normal viewing distances”.

Sharp presents its 85-inch TV with 8K resolution at CES 2014 in Las Vegas.

There’s another reason this really isn’t a practical piece of kit, it’s going to cost 16, 000, 000 yen, roughly $133, 034 or R1.79 million.

As for the specs, the 8K TV features 7680 x 4320 pixels, making it 104 pixels per inch.

It’s important to point out that buying an 8K TV is possibly one of the silliest things you could do right now, because of the utter and complete lack of content to properly put such a TV to use. Falling under the catchy name “Full Ultra-HD” the monitor was originally proposed at the Consumers Electronics Show 2012, and will be available for businesses to buy on October 31st in Japan. Japanese broadcaster NHK will be conducting the 8K tests, and it says it hopes to have the service up and running in time for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The amusing part comes when you think about the connectivity to transmit the massive 8K signal, as you’ll need four HDMI inputs plugged at once just to have enough bandwidth. Which is just a little bit more than the 1920 x 1080 panel you likely have around the house.

Well and truly ahead of the game, Sharp intends to sell its 8K TV to the business sector, letting companies produce their own 8K content to be displayed on it, rather than waiting for TV networks to broadcast in the super-high resolution.