Sharp brings 8K to Europe

So, 33 million pixels (7680 × 4320) — four times more than 4K Ultra HD, and 16 times as many pixels as Full HD. This 8K resolution was always on the roadmap, especially for broadcast organisations, for whom 4K was a technology that “escaped from the wild”, becoming a standard simply because panel makers started releasing them. The result has been the inexorable rise over the last four years of larger screens — 55-inch is the new 42-inch, as they say, and 65-inch is the new 50-inch. But 70-inch and above is also growing, and it needs 8K to deliver the best results, claimed Sharp’s Sascha Lange, speaking to IFA’s Global Press Conference in Rome. A 128-inch screen with 8K resolution has the same pixel density as a 32-inch panel of…

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