Ummm, Anybody Got a Spare $15K You Can Give me?

SilverSurfer wrote 7 years ago: 1

Perhaps TPTB can MacGyver the AI chip to do the tagging and rating stuff on my shows?

If you’ve got the cash for it, early reviews make Samsung’s QLED 8K TV sound like a good deal

https://bgr.com/2018/10/24/samsung-8k-tv-early-reviews-positive/

If you’ve got $15k to spend on a gorgeous TV that you absolutely don’t need, then by all means, let this be the one. That’s the takeaway you might be left with after checking out the early reviews of Samsung’s 85-inch, QLED 8K TV — the Q900R that was unveiled at IFA 2018 and which reviewers and tech outlets are praising for everything from its design to the AI-based 8K upscaling technology.

JuanArango wrote 7 years ago: 1

haha, well I own myself a really sweet LG OLED 4K, I think 8k is not even distinguishable for a human eye, unless the screen is as big as your whole wall :)

SilverSurfer wrote 7 years ago: 1

JuanArango wrote:
haha, well I own myself a really sweet LG OLED 4K, I think 8k is not even distinguishable for a human eye, unless the screen is as big as your whole wall :)

85 inches / 7 feet ... pretty big screen ... beats my 19" B&W rotary dial channel changer ... with tubes not transistors ... that's why I want to upgrade ;)

gazza911 wrote 7 years ago: 1

I don't know how much 4K content there is, let alone 8K content!

Until HEVC / x265 is more developed and efficient, I doubt there will be any real 8K content.

SilverSurfer wrote 7 years ago: 1

gazza911 wrote:
I don't know how much 4K content there is, let alone 8K content!

That's where the AI chip comes in to upscale to 8K on the fly ... or, fingers crossed, tag & rate my shows :)

gazza911 wrote 7 years ago: 1

SilverSurfer wrote:
That's where the AI chip comes in to upscale to 8K on the fly ... or, fingers crossed, tag & rate my shows :)

That's still estimating what the remaining information is.

If you look at the number of pixels, 8K has 4 times as much pixels as 4K (16 times as much as 1080p), which means that you'll have to figure out what those 3 extra pixels are.

This will depend on how effective the AI is in estimating how it should look, based on edges, object recognition, etc.

It will also depend on the content itself; if for example, if it can't figure out how the sky changes shades of blue it could add banding where you'd see blocks of a colour (more noticeable as a line where one shade ends and the next starts) rather than a gradual change.

tl;dr: It can make a sharper image with more detail, but if it doesn't work well, it can actually make the image look worse - especially with having a bigger screen to see all those pixels.

SilverSurfer wrote 7 years ago: 1

gazza911 wrote:
This will depend on how effective the AI is in estimating how it should look, based on edges, object recognition, etc.
It will also depend on the content itself; if for example, if it can't figure out how the sky changes shades of blue it could add banding where you'd see blocks of a colour (more noticeable as a line where one shade ends and the next starts) rather than a gradual change.
tl;dr: It can make a sharper image with more detail, but if it doesn't work well, it can actually make the image look worse - especially with having a bigger screen to see all those pixels.

Well all the various tech review sites are, so far, giving it top marks. I haven't read any beyond the link I gave above but I'm going to have to assume those sites tested out the up scaling and were happy enough to give 5/5 rankings ... if they didn't then they're not much of a review site given one of the big deals on this unit is it's 8K and AI chip to convert lower quality images.

So, here's the deal, everyone give me $1K (cash, wire transfer, certified cheque, raw diamonds, gold bullion or, of course, paypal) and I'll personally try it out and post a review here. Sound good? ;)