Get ready for 8k

Bigger is better. Eight is twice as big as four. Therefore 8K video must be twice as good as 4K. Not convinced? Well… you may have a point.

8K is, of course, four times as big as 4K when it comes to the number of pixels on offer. But that isn’t the point. It doesn’t help us get at the underlying question that the very existence of 8K video raises. Is increased resolution necessarily better? More specifically, is there any upside in stepping up to 8K from 4K? After all, 4K offers over eight million individual pixels. Could 8K’s 33 million pixels be overkill?

Likewise, what’s the point of 8K if there isn’t any 8K content? Even 4K content is hardly ubiquitous. 8K content barely exists. Not that display makers seemed worried about that at CES this year. Admittedly, not many of the 8K wonders at CES were PC screens, but where HDTVs go, mainstream PCs surely follow. Thus, the PC adopted 1080p and then 4K from TVs. Next it will almost certainly