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When will 8K streaming arrive on Australian 8K TVs?
When will 8K streaming arrive on Australian 8K TVs?
You’re thinking of buying an 8K TV, but you don’t know where the 8K content is. You want movies and TV shows, but 8K isn’t on Netflix. Is anything coming?
CES 2020 might seem like a lifetime ago, but the year’s major technology show gave a glimpse as to what was going to be big news: 8K TVs, and lots of them. It seemed like anyone and everyone had an 8K TV, as the higher resolution version of Ultra HD has plans to become a big place for people to spend up on.
Samsung has a couple on the way, alongside its numerous 4K Ultra HD efforts, and LG has a few coming as well. We’re expecting to see more in the 8K world from other brands this year, too, and so 8K isn’t likely to be limited to a handful of technology companies at all.
It seems like 8K is properly coming home this year, and to more than just a handful of people rich enough for the latest and greatest resolution. Twice that of 4K, 8K can potentially show more detail and crisp image quality, provided it has something to run.
But you won’t find 8K Blu-rays just yet, if ever, and there aren’t a whole lot of options for getting 8K content on your new 8K TV, just yet.
In fact, the most likely place you can expect 8K content from is over a streaming service, with the apps on the 8K TVs likely serving that gap.
Who will stream in 8K when it launches?
LG ZX 88 inch 8K OLED TV (CES 2020)
There’s no word yet on if Apple TV is going to make the jump to 8K, though we imagine it’s something Apple is considering, particularly given its support for 4K Ultra HD in the Apple TV 4K, and the launch of iTunes Movies apps on Samsung and LG TVs.
That leaves an Apple TV 8K in more of a “watch this space” kind of place, and we may hear about Apple’s plans either later this year in the virtual Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC), or even later in the year when 8K properly kicks off when those new Microsoft and Sony next-get consoles arrive.
However there are other services you could see 8K streaming from later on, too.
Netflix was one of the first streaming companies to support 4K, so we expect it would be one of the first to join the 8K streaming world, and it may not be alone when it happens.
In a recent Samsung briefing for the Australian launch of Samsung’s 2020 4K and 8K TVs, Pickr asked about plans by Samsung to make 8K content more accessible, and was told that while “there really aren’t many avenues in place”, the company was potentially working with Amazon on an 8K solution, though wouldn’t provide any detail about the potential partnership.
When will 8K streaming arrive on Australian 8K TVs?
When will 8K streaming arrive on Australian 8K TVs?
You’re thinking of buying an 8K TV, but you don’t know where the 8K content is. You want movies and TV shows, but 8K isn’t on Netflix. Is anything coming?
CES 2020 might seem like a lifetime ago, but the year’s major technology show gave a glimpse as to what was going to be big news: 8K TVs, and lots of them. It seemed like anyone and everyone had an 8K TV, as the higher resolution version of Ultra HD has plans to become a big place for people to spend up on.
Samsung has a couple on the way, alongside its numerous 4K Ultra HD efforts, and LG has a few coming as well. We’re expecting to see more in the 8K world from other brands this year, too, and so 8K isn’t likely to be limited to a handful of technology companies at all.
It seems like 8K is properly coming home this year, and to more than just a handful of people rich enough for the latest and greatest resolution. Twice that of 4K, 8K can potentially show more detail and crisp image quality, provided it has something to run.
But you won’t find 8K Blu-rays just yet, if ever, and there aren’t a whole lot of options for getting 8K content on your new 8K TV, just yet.
In fact, the most likely place you can expect 8K content from is over a streaming service, with the apps on the 8K TVs likely serving that gap.
Who will stream in 8K when it launches?
LG ZX 88 inch 8K OLED TV (CES 2020)
There’s no word yet on if Apple TV is going to make the jump to 8K, though we imagine it’s something Apple is considering, particularly given its support for 4K Ultra HD in the Apple TV 4K, and the launch of iTunes Movies apps on Samsung and LG TVs.
That leaves an Apple TV 8K in more of a “watch this space” kind of place, and we may hear about Apple’s plans either later this year in the virtual Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC), or even later in the year when 8K properly kicks off when those new Microsoft and Sony next-get consoles arrive.
However there are other services you could see 8K streaming from later on, too.
Netflix was one of the first streaming companies to support 4K, so we expect it would be one of the first to join the 8K streaming world, and it may not be alone when it happens.
In a recent Samsung briefing for the Australian launch of Samsung’s 2020 4K and 8K TVs, Pickr asked about plans by Samsung to make 8K content more accessible, and was told that while “there really aren’t many avenues in place”, the company was potentially working with Amazon on an 8K solution, though wouldn’t provide any detail about the potential partnership.
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