The World’s First 8K OLED TV Is Finally for Sale

The world’s first 8K OLED TV — a 88-inch gigantic beast by LG that is so sharp it will murder your eyes — is available for sale starting today in Korea, with North America and Europe following in the third quarter. According to The Verge, the TV will retail for roughly $42,000.

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If you add the 8K resolution to that ability, the result is kind of vertigo-inducing. Any human will have a hard time seeing pixels in this thing. The company says that this TV has 33 million pixels, with a 7,680 x 4,320 pixel resolution — 16 times more than Full HD and four times the pixel count of 4K.

The TV is driven by an AI processor to move all that eye candy at 60 frames per second. The processor can also analyze what’s happening on screen in real time, optimizing the quality to remove noise and banding. The processor also handles the upscaling, since there’s not much 8K content right now. In fact, it’s probably way too early to grab one of these TVs, as 4K content is just starting to come to the market now.

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