As a follow up from my last post about my 8K TV [1] I tested out a Samsung 65″ QN900C Neo QLED 8K that’s on sale in JB Hifi. According to the JB employee I spoke to they are running out the last 8K TVs and have no plans to get more.
In my testing of that 8K TV YouTube had a 3840*2160 viewport which is better than the 1920*1080 of my Hisense TV. When running a web browser the codeshack page reported it as 1920*1080 with a 1.25* pixel density (presumably a configuration option) that gave a usable resolution of 1536*749.
The JB Hifi employee wouldn’t let me connect my own device via HDMI but said that it would work at 8K. I said “so if I buy it I can return it if it doesn’t do 8K HDMI?” and then he looked up the specs and found that it would only do 4K input on HDMI. It seems that actual 8K resolution might work on a Samsung streaming device but that’s not very useful particularly as there probably isn’t much 8K content on any streaming service.
Basically that Samsung allegedly 8K TV only works at 4K at best.
It seems to be impossible to buy an 8K TV or monitor in Australia that will actually display 8K content. ASUS has a 6K 32″ monitor with 6016*3384 resolution for $2016 [2]. When counting for inflation $2016 wouldn’t be the most expensive monitor I’ve ever bought and hopefully prices will continue to drop.
Rumour has it that there are 8K TVs available in China that actually take 8K input. Getting one to Australia might not be easy but it’s something that I will investigate.
Also I’m trying to sell my allegedly 8K TV.
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.