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Originally Posted by theone2k10

8K is already on the way too, been out in Japan and South Korea for a while now and already Sont, Samsung and LG are testing it in Europe. It'll be here by 2018 http://tech.thaivisa.com/8k-tv-avail...om-2018/10857/ also if you look around you'll see reports of Samsung testing a 11k tv.

HDR is going to be the game changer in my view, where you don't need a massive TV to see the improvement. Given that it is reckoned that you won't see much of a difference between 1080p and 4K at normal viewing distances unless your TV is at least 60-65 inches, how big is an 8k TV going to have to be to gain an advantage?

HDR will give you a better picture independent of size.

Here’s the backstory. We’ve heard about 4K/UHD for years now, but as you probably know, unless the TV is really, really big, or you’re sitting extraordinarily close to it, the perceptible image is similar to 1080p. For this reason, many Hollywood studios sitting on film or similar stock that could be converted to 4K have resisted.

HDR is different. Briefly, HDR expands the range between the brightest and the darkest pixels in a TV set, expanding the contrast to look more like film than video. Many TVs that support HDR will also expand the color space from Rec 709 to Rec 2020 (discussed in our earlier article), so the colors will look richer and deeper. So unlike Plain Jane 4K, the difference doesn’t depend upon how close you sit to the TV, or how big the set is. The difference will be very noticeable even on similarly sized sets viewed from the same distance. So unlike 4K, which has been a pretty big "meh" for most consumers without too much money on their hands, everyone who sees HDR will want it.

http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articl...et-105068.aspx