Dell 32" 8K Monitor Announced at CES - $4,999

[michael zaletel]

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"If CES is a preview of the future, then give me more of this particular flavor. Dell today announces a new 32-inch, 8K desktop monitor with 1.07 billion colors, aluminum construction, 100 percent coverage of the AdobeRGB and sRGB color gamuts, and a monster $4,999 price. The UP3218K has a resolution of 7680 x 4320 (for a pixel density of 280ppi), which is as many pixels as you’d get from four 4K displays or 16 Full HD panels."

 

[Marc Wielage]

I think Dell has yet to produce an HD or 4K monitor that can even hit Rec709 out of the box. You gotta walk before you run a 4-minute mile.

I would much rather have accurate pixels than more of them.

 

[Antony Newman]

Dell are demonstrating that they already have the Digital Electronics available to ingest and display an 8k image.

If their Analogue (display) side just needs to be sufficiently correctable / calibrateable to mitigate any out-of-the box issues - it may well hook photographers whose raw (or delivery) image is greater then 4K / 5K.

And if there is traction, Apple would likely need a 8k iMac 'response'.

It May well (finally!) get companies whose PC menus are already stupidly small in 4K to use Font sizes that are not N-Pixels ... but Proportial to the Width of the screen.

AJ

 

[DJ Meyer]

Looking forward to it. Now all we need is a HiDPI version of RCX.

 

[Blair S. Paulsen]

Dell are demonstrating that they already have the Digital Electronics available to ingest and display an 8k image. (snip) AJ

This is no small feat. I've seen several 8K displays around CES and most of them are just showing stills off a USB drive. When I ask what ports/signaling standards/etc are supported the response is some version of "in development", or "this is just a prototype", etc.

Cheers - #19

 

[Hrvoje Simic]

Cool stuff and hats off for technological leap but 8K on a 32 inch screen seems like a waste of pixels.
At this point.

 

[Mike Gifford]

What sort of video card could drive this monitor?

 

[L. Langer]

What sort of video card could drive this monitor?

The upcoming ones that use Display Stream Compression. The testing of such devices only began very recently due to the lack of hardware and testing verification.

 

[Marc Wielage]

This is no small feat. I've seen several 8K displays around CES and most of them are just showing stills off a USB drive. When I ask what ports/signaling standards/etc are supported the response is some version of "in development", or "this is just a prototype", etc.

Very typical for CES. A lotta stuff gets announced and turns into vaporware six months later.

The best thing I can say about this CES is that manufacturers have refined the concept of picture quality for 4K displays, and at least they're making available monitors that can provide surprisingly good performance (once they're calibrated).

 

[Patrick Tresch]

Hello Marc,
What 4K monitor solution would you suggest for color work?
I was looking into the eizo cg318.

Projector would be nice or a bigger screen...

Happy new year Marc!

Pat