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The World's First 88-inch 8K OLED Display (engadget.com)

Posted by msmash on from the pushing-the-envelope dept.

From a report: Come CES, LG will be letting attendees get up close with its new 88-inch 8K OLED display, which is both the largest and the highest-resolution OLED panel to date. But as far as specs go, that's all we have for now. Previously, the largest OLED screen size was 77 inches, and it "only" came in 4K. While this combination is currently offered to consumers by the likes of LG Electronics, Sony and Panasonic, they all source their large OLED panels from LG Display.

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  1. How many defects? by FrankHaynes · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How many defective pixels will THIS wonder of the world come with?

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    1. Re: How many defects? by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Dead pixels that don't light up? You'd need a nearly completely 100% white display to notice them.

      Defective pixels stuck to "on"? Extremely annoying.

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    2. Re: How many defects? by dabadab · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I predict that within 5 years, LCD monitors will be in the dustbin of history. Once OLEDs reach price parity, no one will want an LCD.

      OLED still has a very serious burn-in problem and that just does not seem to go away in the mid term - so no, OLED will not replace LCD in the monitors any time soon.
      The burn-in is not that problematic in TVs and OLED is already dominating the high-end - if the prices keep dropping, LCD will be driven back to the lower end of the TV market.
      But monitors - I expect seeing mostly LCDs there for a long time.

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  2. This will work! by SmaryJerry · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... as a monitor. Because no videos will be in 8K!

    1. Re:This will work! by ffkom · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Just look at the sad situation regarding 4k content: The vast majority of even high-budget movies is still produced with 2k digital intermediates, and fake-4k is "derived" from this via mere upscaling.

      And amongst the very few productions that actually use 4k digital intermediates, many of them reach that kind of resolution in only a few scenes, when there is outdoor daylight and the picture is not mostly blurred by the "artistic over-use" of unnaturally shallow depth of field (aka "bokeh").

      I for one would not expect any sizeable amount of 8k productions that would earn that label anytime soon. Chances are, even if the recording hardware allows for 8k resolution, 8k movies will be even more "fake-8k" than 4k ones are fake already.

    2. Re:This will work! by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Insightful

      640 x 480 should be good enough for anybody.

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