Samsung plans to release 8K QLED Q900FN series TVs with AI Upscaling this October

Over 4,000 nits of brightness and AI-powered upscaling!



Read more about Samsung's 8K QLED Q900FN series TVs with AI Upscaling.

Yep, get ready to throw your wallet at it folks, since it ain't gonna be cheap! :lol:

So is this 4k native with upscaling or 1080p with upscaling? Didn't see it in the article

NeverBackDown said:

So is this 4k native with upscaling or 1080p with upscaling? Didn't see it in the article

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It's 8K Native 7680x4320. 4x4K/16x1080p. Problem is that it gets to 8K with AI upscaling, which I heard good reports about from CES 2018, but its still upscaling.

Like all early high-resolution TVs, this will probably ship without 8K compliant inputs and probably be pretty useless after a while.

It can upscale SD, HD and 4K content.

Beginning at the beginning; is there any 8K content?

WYP said:

It's 8K Native 7680x4320. 4x4K/16x1080p. Problem is that it gets to 8K with AI upscaling, which I heard good reports about from CES 2018, but its still upscaling.

Like all early high-resolution TVs, this will probably ship without 8K compliant inputs and probably be pretty useless after a while.

It can upscale SD, HD and 4K content.

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Then what is the point of this TV in the first place really, if it's gonna be useless after a while? :huh:

WYP said:

It's 8K Native 7680x4320. 4x4K/16x1080p. Problem is that it gets to 8K with AI upscaling, which I heard good reports about from CES 2018, but its still upscaling.

Like all early high-resolution TVs, this will probably ship without 8K compliant inputs and probably be pretty useless after a while.

It can upscale SD, HD and 4K content.

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Oh okay the article makes more sense now.

Side note.. could you imagine watching movies in native 8k? I would spend thousands if needed to watch all the marvel movies in 8k. Would be the sex!!!

I'm excited. However also reasonable... I doubt I'll own one and by the time I could get one 16k will roll around

Dawelio said:

Then what is the point of this TV in the first place really, if it's gonna be useless after a while? :huh:

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People will always want to be the early adopter of new technologies. Biggest TVs with the best features. It's the same with early 4K TVs, most of them had HDMI 1.4 and will never have support for 4K60FPS. It's the cost of adopting higher resolutions early.

In this case, the AI features should be useful to users, assuming that it works better than the oversharpening HD upscaling that many of us will be familiar with. The selling point here is AI upscaling to 8K, not the fact that this will support future 8K compatible devices.

As far as I am aware, HDMI hasn't even started verifying/certifying HDMI 2.1 devices, which means that this cannot be ready for 8K inputs. That being said, we are a long way from having 8K content. Even now 4K content is rare. I barely ever see 4K blu rays if I'm out shopping.

Maybe useless is the wrong term, but it isn't what I'd consider a worthwhile investment, even if I had the money to burn in it.

We should just switch over to DP already.. does everything HDMI does but it's faster. Hell you can even convert a HDMI signal to DP and have 0 issues(vice versa) excluding being slowed down to HDMI speeds.

NeverBackDown said:

Side note.. could you imagine watching movies in native 8k? I would spend thousands if needed to watch all the marvel movies in 8k. Would be the sex!!!

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Now that would be something! Those movies are just utterly awesomeness!