Workers jumping out the windows of the Foxconn America plant will not have nets to catch them, but trampolines which bounce the worker back to the assembly line. Trump: America is bouncing back to work! Beautiful beautiful jobs! On second thought, we won't have windows. Just fake rubber windows of the Chinese countryside! You'll still bounce back if you try to jump out!

Being an early adopter on 4K, I'd advise waiting for 2nd gen 8K monitors to hit with 120Hz Refresh rate, newer connectivity, better HDR brightness (1000 nit minimum) and higher Contrast ratio ...

Now that Philips 328P8K monitor is jumping in to compete against the Dell, price points for these 8K monitors are actually dropping just as fast as when 4K monitors came to market, from $5000 down to $3400 for this Phillips or $3699 for the Dell (previously $5000, just 6 months ago).

See the Sharp 27" 8K display specs for comparison (though 27" is far too small):

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10732/ceatec-2016-sharp-showcases-27-inch-8k-120hz-igzo-monitor-with-hdr-also-1000-ppi-for-vr

AUO Presents World’s Largest(*) 8K 4K Bezel-less TV Display

HSINCHU, Taiwan, Sept. 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — AU Optronics Corp. (“AUO” or the “Company”) (TAIEX: 2409; NYSE: AUO) will participate in Touch Taiwan 2017 at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center from September 20 to 22 to showcase a full lineup of advanced large-sized display technologies and products. Exhibition highlights include enhanced ALCD technology with advanced HDR (high dynamic range) introduced to the full series, including the world’s largest() 85-inch 8K4K (7680 x 4320), and 65-inch and 75-inch UHD 4K (3840 x 2160) bezel-less ALCD TV displays; the world’s first() 27-inch and 35-inch gaming monitor panels equipped with advanced HRD technology; and a variety of public information display solutions featuring high resolution, high brightness, extreme narrow bezel and stretched type, which could be tailored to customer requirements to support content of diverse kinds to be eminently displayed in varied environments.

Enhanced ALCD Technology for Ultimate Home Theater Audio-Visual Experience AUO continues to strengthen its technology edge of high contrast and wide color gamut by presenting an enhanced version of ALCD technology. Through a comprehensive HDR design, the display can achieve as high as 2000-nit brightness with significantly higher contrast. Its low reflective quality helps to deliver high HDR image quality even in daylight, perfectly capturing both bright and dark image details. By adopting environmentally-friendly cadmium-free quantum dots with high color saturation, the display can reveal rich and detailed color depth, with a wide color gamut exceeding NTSC 110% in all environments, boasting an overall higher image quality than OLED TV. Having been the first(*) to present bezel-less display on all four sides, AUO applies its self-developed GOA (Gate on Array) technology to significantly lower the number of display driver ICs and expand the display viewing area. This not only allows for a seemingly boundless, holistic view, but also a sleek and stylish appearance.

AUO leverages its advantages in technological integration and has again achieved specification breakthrough to introduce the world’s largest(*) 85-inch 8K4K bezel-less ALCD TV display with 120Hz high refresh rate to deliver smooth motion flow with impressive image quality. The features of 8K4K images are thoroughly manifested through the large-sized TV panel. From mountains standing afar to objects and figures up close, all images demonstrate stunning clarity and stereoscopic effect, as if all characters have stepped out of the screen, vividly depicting the most exquisite image details and true colors. When marveling the large-sized screen, the audience can perceive the most intricate image details.

@NickBen

It is small issue, as 8K make any sense from 80-85".

And physically it is just 4 cheap 40" 4K panels.

Holding out for 64K.

It's not the first not likely to be the last "resolution upgrade". If we're looking down the film industry, we still do delivery in 2K. I rarely had to color grade and deliver for theater in 4K and the difference was invisible to an "untrained" eye and it was surely not in sharpness (which is what everyone would expect) but rather in color and brightness which are separates thing from resolution. For video game players who need their screen to be their "surrounding" and usually get closer to the screen, I can dig the need of 4K even though we are talking about very minor changes.

Steve Yedling (DoP of The Last Jedi) has a great course on Resolution formats. In his demo, there's no difference to the human eye at normal distance from a screen to view a 12K IMAX scan compared to a 2K Arri Alexa whichever you convert for another medium format (meaning you can uprez 2K to 12K and still have the same sharpness compared to an original 12K file). Sharpness is mosty the result of micro contrast between edges and color rendition. It used to be the case for SD vs HD but now we have 1080p it barely even matter if not completely.

One funny test is to have a checkboard and divide it by two multiple times. At one point (around 3K) the screen will be all gray (even on a 8K screen). Your brain automatically correct what it sees, beautiful engineering there...

The real deal here for that kind of need and what it creates (because it just isn't about 8K only) is the need of faster bandwidth and Disk Drive for the masses. If these fails to deliver, this 8K technology will just remain a myth.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarcher/2018/09/05/lg-8k-oled-tv-first-impressions-beauty-in-waiting/#396526145d8a

"...The 8K detail difference is easily visible from viewing distances of 4m and beyond too; don’t be fooled by shots of people with their noses pressed against 8K TVs as if to say that’s the only way you can appreciate what they do.

Having said that, it is at least worth getting up close and personal with the LG 8K OLED for a minute or two, if only to better understand how its hugely increased ‘pixels per inch’ versus similarly large 4K TVs makes such a surprisingly substantial difference from more regular viewing distances. There’s no jagged edging around curved or angled object edges, no softness, and practically no visible pixel structure - all of which would be visible up close on a similarly sized 4K TV..."

https://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/canon-says-8k-eos-r-cinema-camera-is-a-possibility-and-they-will-consider-adding-on-sensor-stabilization-in-future-models/#disqus_thread

I find this rumor post hillarious... Canon served their customers a turd in a mirrorless box for the 2018-2019 launch, then a week later attempting to "polish the turd" in the mirrorless box saying points 4. and 5. in their interview:

4. Of course we can expect lower and higher end EOS-R models to be released in the near future

5. Canon is considering making a 8k Cinema EOS-R camera.

Even Canon is scared of losing market share in the years old race to 8K and need to float the "almighty 8K" to try and sway customers to their system...

It's like saying "OH YEAH..., And my car is so fast it can break the speed of sound!" (... when you drop it off the back end of the Space Shuttle cargo bay while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere)

Who knew the Japanese Canon Managers have such a sense of Humor- trolling 2018 customers!!!

8K Mobile streaming over 5G...

https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2018/09/14/france-televisions-teams-with-nokia-for-first-8k-streaming-over-5g/

In this case, unlike with Microsoft, this "Streaming" is not simply pissing onto a phone/company

Today, Panasonic announces a slide showing we make 8K... but you can't have it yet, not even on the future cameras we just announced...

That Philips monitor is taking its time...

8K TVs predictions

NHK launching 8K channel

https://www.nhk.or.jp/corporateinfo/english/press/pdf/20181127.pdf