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Sony stops making 8K TVs, but ultra high-def cameras remain key to future

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I am surprised Sony exited the 8K TV market, even though it's likely we will need to wait another ~5 years before we start getting mainstream 8K content (from what I read 35 mm film does map onto 8K very well). That being said, Sony electronics aren't what they used to be.
- There isn't a particularly good delivery mechanism for 8K, Blu-Ray tops out at UHD/4K, and streaming is so bitrate starved 8K doesn't even matter.
  
  Chances are BD won't really exist in context of the 8K market. 4K/UHD BD is a niche populated by western collectors and as strange as it sounds, content pirates that never interact with the physical disc but are looking for source, untouched 4K video streams. And I don't believe even top end BD discs can't handle 300 GB sizes that you would need for a 2 hour 8K move in normal bitrate.
  That being said, UHD BD is at around 75 mbps. So 8K would be around 300 mbps, In theory if bandwidth costs continue to decline as they have since the introduction of early broadband, you could have streaming services supporting a 300 mbps "premium" 8K stream.
  
  Maybe the new GPMI cable will help here?
- Sony TVs are very well regarded though, they're one of the higher quality devices you can buy.
Good. Utter waste of pixels for no benefit whatsoever.
- The 8k ready sticker on the ps5 is so fucking funny. Tackle 4k 30fps first maybe
  
  Or 1080 60 lmao
I’d prefer higher framerate content than 8k content.
Give me 1080p 120fps mainstream TV any day of the week
- Many nice 4k TVs will do 120 these days
- Give me 1080p 120fps mainstream TV any day of the week
  Is that even possible? Is the source video stream (from the cameras used in production) at 120 fps?
  
  Yeah most professional cameras and a lot of phones do 120fps these days.
Im barely on 2K!
- You are on less than 1080x1920? That's a pretty old monitor/laptop screen.
8K TVs are pointless
pretty rare to see technology moving backwards
- Well we had 3d TVs 10 years ago
  
  I’ve still got one.

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