Samsung unveils its first 8K TV you can actually buy

Samsung

• Samsung announced its first commercially available 8K
  TVs this week.
• The TVs will come in four available sizes and arrive in
  September.

Samsung just
announced the first 8K TV you can actually buy in stores.

The Q900R QLED 8K TV, which Samsung unveiled this week at IFA
2018 in Berlin, will be available starting at the end of
September.

You’ll be able to buy Samsung’s new 8K TV in of four available
sizes, which are all massive: 65 inches, 75 inches, 82 inches,
and 85 inches.

So, what’s so great about 8K?

The biggest difference with Samsung’s 8K TV will be how how many
pixels it can produce — 16 times as many pixels compared to a
normal HD TV — and how bright it can get: It’s capable of 4,000
nit peak brightness, compared to the
1,700 peak brightness in its latest Q9-series 4K QLED TVs.
That’s very bright.

Samsung’s Q900R 8K TV also features high-dynamic range, which
results in deeper blacks and more vivid colors.

But how much 8K content is there? Not much, but this particular
8K TV from Samsung features a unique upscaling technology that
uses artificial intelligence to improve the picture quality of
whatever you’re watching, whether you’re using a streaming
set-top box, or a game console, or even mirroring content from
your phone.

This won’t be cheap

In terms of cost, Samsung has yet to announce any kind of
official pricing for its first commercially available 8K TV. But
expect it to cost a pretty penny: Its top-of-the-line Q9-series
QLED 4K ultra-HD TVs start at $3,300, and that’s for 65 inches.
The 75-inch model of that TV costs about $5,300. It wouldn’t be
surprising to see Samsung’s first-edition 8K TVs cost
significantly more than that.

You can learn more about Samsung’s new 8K TVs and what they can
do from Samsung’s official
press release.