28 Aug TECH UPDATE 2020: WHAT’S NEW WITH TVs
HD? 4K? 8K? UHD? HDR? OLED?
I know, it’s buzzword bingo all over again.
If, like many, you’ve been watching more TV during lockdown – and movies (and, well, just about everything) then you might have thought it is a good time to get a better telly. And you’d be right.
New TV tech
A number of things have changed. At the last big tech exhibitions (CES and ISE) 8k was all the rage – much higher definition 7680 pixels x 4320 pixels (not 3840 pixels x 2160 pixels which is 4K). Although there isn’t a huge amount of content available yet, the BBC, Netflix, Sky, Apple and Amazon are all originating in 8K – and there are some live sports broadcasts and movies available in 8K right now. There are other new display technologies too – like OLED, which provides great contrast, and HDR which gives a brighter, more colourful and ‘film-like’ picture.


The sound has improved dramatically too, and you can ‘cast’ or Airplay to these TVs too, making it really easy to share content with friends.


Samsung Frame TV designed to be a TV that looks like an elegant framed picture.
Image Credit: Samsung.com
A couple of other things to consider
There are couple of other things to consider: Because the technology is so well advanced now, everything is much less bulky, most TVs look really good, as the frames are nearly non-existent (meaning lots of people are getting somewhat bigger screens, because they take up appreciably less space) and there are compelling ‘actually look like a real picture, displaying real art when they’re off’ options too.
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