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LG Announces "Super UHD" TV Lineup (digitaltrends.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the more-real-than-real dept.

An anonymous reader writes: LG Electronics will be showing off a new line of 4K Ultra-HD television sets at CES this week and a 98-inch 8K Super UHD giant. Digital Trends reports: "The UH9500 (screen sizes 55-86 inches) UH8500 (screen sizes 55-75 inches) and UH7700 (screen sizes 49-65 inches) share several traits in common. All will offer what LG is calling HDR Plus, which means all of the sets in this series can process and display High Dynamic Range content from a variety of sources, include LG's Color Prime tech for enhanced color brightness. These sets will also apply processing that aims to improve non-HDR content for an HDR-like experience."

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  1. My eyes bleed just thinking about it... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm always up for more resolution; but my eyes are bleeding just imagining what fake-HDR effects are going to look like. More dynamic range is useful; but what horrors are they going to invoke when faking data not specified by the source material to get a 'Best Buy Brite(tm)!' effect that 8 out of 10 focus group participants agreed looked brighter and more vivid than the competitor's image under retail conditions?

  2. Can't wait to see these in public by BlytheBowman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Comming to a waiting room near you, thete will be one of these 4k+ TVs on the wall, only they will be connected to a cable or even an OTA digital converter box either which is outputting letter boxed SD which somehow still manages to get cropped by the set, or better yet a 4:3 SD Apicture in Strech-O-Vision! Just like I see most HD sets in public spaces today

  3. LG Announces "Super UHD" TV by The+Grim+Reefer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The naming for this is getting a little ridiculous. HD I could understand. But then to go to ultra high definition seemed a little silly. Super ultra high definition is a whole lot of silly. I suppose they have to give it some sort of name as most TV's that are being sold as 4K truly aren't. I'm going to stick with my 1080p HD for now. At least until the Extra big ass double plus good venti glorious super ultra high definition televisions are released with 8 billion K resolution. At that point, I'll need to wear a pair of 16 inch telescopes with 750X magnification to truly appreciate the resolution while sitting 10 feet away from it on my couch. Except there won't be any content and everything will have to be unconverted from 1080p blurays that were remastered in 4K.