Where’s the 8K content? Arguably the most imp
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Posted On: 11/07/2019 10:55:02 AM
Where’s the 8K content?
Arguably the most important question surrounding 8K TVs right now is, What are you going to watch on them? If you’re looking for 8K content, there isn’t any—and there probably won’t be for some time.
Ultra HD Blu-ray is currently the highest-quality 4K source for movies, and many of those discs are still finished at 2K resolution and upconverted to 4K. Even the true 4K ones typically have the visual effects done at 2K resolution. Very few filmmakers use cameras that support 8K resolution, and most don’t even shoot at full 4K resolution, but instead at 2.8K or 3.4K. The first 4K Blu-ray discs arrived around 18 months after the first 4K TVs were announced, though we expect most future 8K content to be streaming and not disc-based.
Most broadcast TV is still produced at an HD resolution. Some cable, satellite, and streaming-TV providers offer the occasional live broadcast in 4K, but no over-the-air 4K content is available yet.
For the foreseeable future, the only 8K sources are going to be new video-game systems from Microsoft and Sony, and maybe some occasional streaming content. We don’t know how much bandwidth will be required to stream 8K, but the great-looking 8K clips we’ve watched were 60 to 100 Mbps, well past the 13 to 15 Mbps used to stream 4K today. A lower-bandwidth 8K signal may not offer the same quality improvements.
https://thewirecutter.com/blog/8k-tv-review/
Arguably the most important question surrounding 8K TVs right now is, What are you going to watch on them? If you’re looking for 8K content, there isn’t any—and there probably won’t be for some time.
Ultra HD Blu-ray is currently the highest-quality 4K source for movies, and many of those discs are still finished at 2K resolution and upconverted to 4K. Even the true 4K ones typically have the visual effects done at 2K resolution. Very few filmmakers use cameras that support 8K resolution, and most don’t even shoot at full 4K resolution, but instead at 2.8K or 3.4K. The first 4K Blu-ray discs arrived around 18 months after the first 4K TVs were announced, though we expect most future 8K content to be streaming and not disc-based.
Most broadcast TV is still produced at an HD resolution. Some cable, satellite, and streaming-TV providers offer the occasional live broadcast in 4K, but no over-the-air 4K content is available yet.
For the foreseeable future, the only 8K sources are going to be new video-game systems from Microsoft and Sony, and maybe some occasional streaming content. We don’t know how much bandwidth will be required to stream 8K, but the great-looking 8K clips we’ve watched were 60 to 100 Mbps, well past the 13 to 15 Mbps used to stream 4K today. A lower-bandwidth 8K signal may not offer the same quality improvements.
https://thewirecutter.com/blog/8k-tv-review/
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