When do you suppose 8K will be available?

[mjbethancourt]

I remember a few years back reading up on a tech expo on 8k in Japan. The tech was solid, and the reception was flabbergasted. I think 8k will be the next "real" leap forward in home video tech, some years hence. 4k will serve as that intermediate thing, like 720p, something that is a "halfway" tech, approximated upwards and sidewards by a variety of software adjustments, and used as a low-bandwidth dump for game design of the next generation, the same way 720p was used for the current generation. Also, probably the thing that makes home 3D finally really "work".

the rest of this is all pure b.s. prognostication, but...

...8k will be the next generalized leap forward for broadcast and home video, we will all buy new TVs for 8k the same way we did for 1080p, with early adopters for 4-6 years from now, followed by mass adoption in the 6-9 years-from-now window. 72" displays will hold the same niche that 55" does now and 40" did 8 years ago; the suburban middle-class big screen will be either 96" at the low end or 120" at the high end, ultra-curved-screen and passive 3d, perhaps without glasses. By far, one of the biggest factors in when this will happen, is when the next meaningful economic surge occurs, which I think is still quite a few years off. Another meaningful characteristic of 8k, is that it will probably be the last generation of physical media for the foreseeable future, (although I'm sure after physical media has been "gone" for a decade or a generation or so, nostalgia or retro-fanaticism will periodically bring it back throughout the future.) The dates I project for these things are a 2017 or 2018 preview and early marketing for 8k, with models hitting stores in 2018 or 2019, and the majority jumping in somewhere between 2020 and 2023.