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Japan Display breaks out 17.3-inch 8K monitor

By Chris Wood
October 02, 2015
Japan Display breaks out 17.3-inch 8K monitor
Japan Display believes that its 8K screen could prove popular in a medical setting, for video editing professionals, and for use in PC gaming monitors
Japan Display believes that its 8K screen could prove popular in a medical setting, for video editing professionals, and for use in PC gaming monitors
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Japan Display believes that its 8K screen could prove popular in a medical setting, for video editing professionals, and for use in PC gaming monitors
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Japan Display believes that its 8K screen could prove popular in a medical setting, for video editing professionals, and for use in PC gaming monitors

Ultra high resolution screens, which offer four times the pixels you'll find on a 4K panel, or 16 times 1080p, tend to be pretty sizable affairs, even the world's first commercially available 8K TV from Sharp measures 85 inches diagonally. That's about to change with the development of a brand new monitor from Japan Display that packs a full 8K resolution into just 17.3 inches.

Japan Display's LCD module features a resolution of 7,680 x 4,320 over 17.3 diagonal inches, which works out to a pretty crazy 510 pixels per inch. For perspective, that's only 12 percent less than the 577 pixels per inch than you'll find on a 2,560 x 1,440 resolution Samsung Galaxy S6 smartphone, which only has a 5.1-inch panel. Other specs for the 8K display include 176 degree viewing angle, a 120 Hz refresh rate, 500 cd/m2 luminance and a 2,000:1 contrast ratio.

Japan Display believes that its screen could prove popular in a medical setting, for video editing professionals, and for use in PC gaming monitors (though no pricing or availability has been announced). That last use case is a little far fetched, at least for the time being, as you currently need a pretty beefy gaming rig to run games at high settings in 4K, let alone 8K.

Japan Display's new panel is likely quite the sight to behold, but you might have to get pretty close to really appreciate all those extra pixels. It'll be on show in in the NHK/JEITA booth at CEATEC Japan later this month.

Source: Japan Display

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Chris Wood
Chris specializes in science and consumer technology for New Atlas, but also likes to dabble in the latest gaming gadgets. He has a degree in Politics and Ancient History from the University of Exeter, and lives in Gloucestershire, UK. In his spare time you might find him playing music, following a variety of sports or binge watching Game of Thrones.

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Island Architect
Too small.
24" minimuum.
BZD
I love that proper high PPI monitors are starting to exists, but the size needs to come up while the PPI stays high so the amount of pixels is still nothing. Right now I have a 40(39.5)" 4K as my desktop monitor and it's 111.5 PPI is a good match for the software we have today, but things can get much better :-)
Of course we are gonna need a lot more graphics power as well and lately it seems the growth in that part of the tech world has slowed down, so it may be we gonna find our self in a situation where the monitors are there but the graphics power is only good for desktop work and not gaming. That would of course be a real 1st world problem.
Nairda
People always play these things down, but this resolution is about equivalent to a 28 Mp camera, that is about the middle range territory for a budding photographer.
Being able to view an image in its native format be it 17" screen or larger is a fantastic concept.
For reference, part of the reason why I opted for a 4K TV was to see 1080p Portrait videos in their native (not scaled) resolultion. You can most certainly tell the difference. This screen will be able to play 4k video content in portrait without scale in a similar fashion.
milliard
Sp my comment about visual acuity and monitor resolution has been filtered out. Bad choice - go into any electronics store and no-one in the industry is aware of the visual acuity factor. People need to know so they can make intelligent choices.
milliard
These high PPI figures are academic because of visual acuity limitations. Good visual acuity is one minute of arc (5040 individual points around a ninety degree arc). This means optimum viewing distance for someone with eyesight at the top of the range is seven inches, so you're well and truly right over top of the keyboard. This also means you have to move your head around the range of the screen to get the best results at all points. Admittedly, one can get in close if specific detail is needed at a particular point at a particular time, but I'm sure many people can't even focus that closely (I suppose one could use a magnifying glass, though).
Anyway, this reasoning explains why 4K TV is a waste of space because the ideal viewing distance for good eyesight is the diagonal width of the screen (eg five feet away for a sixty inch screen) and even a third person would feel very much at the side of the screen (I suppose some people like the front row of the cinema, though).