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Innovation business invested part of the 2010s attempting to persuade us that we would desire an 8K screen one day.
In 2012, Sharp brought the very first 8K television model to the CES trade convention in Las Vegas. In 2015, the very first 8K TVs began offering in Japan for 16 million yen (about $133,034 at the time), and in 2018, Samsung launched the very first 8K TVs in the United States, beginning at a more sensible $3,500. By 2016, the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) had a requirements for supporting 8K (Display Port1.4), and the HDMI Forum did the same (with HDMI 2.1). By 2017, Dell had an 8K computer system display. In 2019, LG launched the very first 8K OLED TELEVISION, more pressing the market’s claim that 8K TVs were “the future.”
A marketing image for 8K TVs that’s (still) on LG’s United States site.
Credit: LG
A marketing image for 8K TVs that’s (still) on LG’s United States site.
Credit: LG
8K never ever showed its need or usefulness.
Television business are stopping 8K
LG Display is no longer making 8K LCD or OLED panels, FlatpanelsHD reported today. Previously this month, an LG Display representative informed FlatpanelsHD that the panel provider is “taking a detailed view of present screen market patterns and the patterns within the 8K material community.”
“As our technical preparedness is currently total, LG Display is totally prepared to react right away whenever the marketplace and clients identify that the timing is right,” LG Display’s agent stated.
LG Electronics was the very first and only business to offer 8K OLED TVs, beginning with the 88-inch Z9 in 2019. In 2022, it decreased the price-of-entry for an 8K OLED TELEVISION by $7,000 by charging $13,000 for a 76.7-inch television.
FlatpanelsHD pointed out confidential sources who stated that LG Electronics would no longer restock the 2024 QNED99T, which is the last LCD 8K television that it launched.
LG’s 8K desertion follows other brand names distancing themselves from 8K. TCL, which launched its last 8K television in 2021, stated in 2023 that it wasn’t making more 8K TVs due to low need. Sony ceased its last 8K TVs in April and is not likely to go back to the marketplace, as it prepares to offer the bulk ownership of its Bravia TVs to TCL.
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