Gadgetory

hey windows guys mkbhd here and in years past we've had all kinds of 4k displays right 4k TVs 4k monitors 4k laptops and even a 4k smartphone and then we also got tons of 4k cameras to put video and content on those 4k screens so 4k mirrorless cameras DSLRs and even the ones in our pocket so shooting 4k there's even 4k webcams now so you can do sites or save times in glorious high definition if you wanted to that options there so it kind of seems like pretty much everyone's making some sort of consumer 4k cameras except Canon so in last year's state of 4k video we came to the conclusion that pretty much everything is better in 4k and that's still true but now that its 2017 it's kind of time to take a look at the bleeding edge getting pushed a little further out and we can see what's beyond 4k so first of all what is a Kay I know most of you know but for the sake of simplicity it represents about a thousand horizontal pixels so 1920 by 1080 is about 2,000 pixels wide so we can call it 2k 4k is 3840 by 2160 so again about 4000 pixels wide so we call it 4k so okay you may see my recent video about the LG 5k display this is a monitor with a resolution more than 4,000 pixels wide it's at 50 120 by 2880 panel so 5k which is actually a tessellation of four times 2560 by 1440 and it works great a single Thunderbolt 3 cable can push that video resolution you get a native 4k window with room around it to spare it's an awesome setup so 5k exists and that's great beyond that we don't really have that many 6k or 7k resolution monitors it's just sort of a weird resolution for 16 by 9 so that brings us right to 8k so 8 K is 4 times 4k so 7680 4320 there are some 8k screens out there in the world Wikipedia has a little list of pretty much every single 8k display ever announced and there's about a dozen of them right now but we did see a couple of these 8k TVs at CES again this year and that's kind of the most frequent place you'll see them you don't really see them in people's houses you see them at places like see and trade shows and demo areas but broadcast television isn't really 8k it's barely ever even 4k and I'm going to say there's a grand total of probably less than 100 8k videos on all of YouTube including this one so what's the deal what are they even showing on these 8k TVs on the demo areas well a lot of slideshows 8k is a huge resolution not just for videos but even for photos 8k is 33 megapixels so to fill an 8k TV pixel for pixel you need a 33 megapixel photo so the easiest way to just play demo material at the 8k TV you're showing at CES is just to play a slideshow of really high res photos and if you're lucky maybe even a time-lapse of really high res photos and that's the biggest difference between high tech and the bleeding edge of tech for all those high tech 4k displays we do have a whole bunch of high tech 4k cameras to capture video to be shown on them and that's awesome but for all the bleeding-edge 8k tvs we have out there the couple that exists there are almost no video cameras out there ready to shoot 8k video right is an example of a company that's been pioneering high-resolution image capture for the past couple years they were really early to 4k and at this point they have two different video sensors that shoot 8k in production right now including the one that's in this camera that we're shooting this on which is why there's not just an HD option and a 1440p option and a 4k option but also if you're in chrome anyway an 8k option on this video I'm guessing you probably can't watch this video in full 8k even if you did have an 8k display and you did have the internet connection to be able to download all this we'd also need a GPU to be able to handle playing back that video which it probably doesn't at this point so if you tried to click that 8k button I'm sorry about your GPU but people can still choose to shoot videos an 8k now for the same reason that they chose to shoot 4k when everyone only had 1080p for better sharpness and better reframing ability more data points for better stabilization a lot of minor stuff like that but again that's why it's all off this very high end so here's what to keep in mind basically all the stuff is still bleeding edge most people don't have a 4k TV yet but I would argue that it's got to the point where if you're buying a 4k TV now it should be 4k it's just that people usually just by TV's enough they need a new one and most people extended EP TVs are working just fine the cycle for people upgrading their TVs is much much slower than maybe a smartphone for example where you get a new contract every two years so basically we're at this merging point in 2017 where if you go to like a Best Buy or if you look on Amazon or basically any electronic store then 4k is mainstream it's everywhere it's ready to go but if you go through people's apartments and people's living rooms and look at their TVs you'll find that steps a lot less common there's still plenty of 1080p TVs so that's where we're at and that is the state of 4k thanks for watching dot you guys the next one please