Tag Archives: 8K
8K video on YouTube
8K has been around for a while now, I’ve seen huge (108″) 8K displays at E3 for three years running. Even so, we’re too busy focusing on 4K these days, and two versions of 4K at that – true 4K (4096 x 2160) and UHD (3840 x 2160), although no TV you can by in a store is true 4K, that’s a cinema standard. *All* TVs that claim to be 4K are actually UHD.
Yet technology marches on, and just as we are seeing the very early development of new technologies such as quantum dot displays, so are we seeing the early attempts to move past 4K resolution towards an 8K consumer standard.
What 4K really means
In class last Friday, I showed you the website for Samsara, a movie that has been converted from 70mm film to 8K (it has another homepage here), which is the most practical way of achieving 8K. I haven’t yet seen it, but I have seen its prequel, Baraka, and it is magnificent. There was even a 1983 prequel to Baraka titled Koyaanisqatsi, and it was glorious as well. The trailer for Samsara is below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0xVp3N-M84
