Enjoying 8K At Home
So, What Exactly Do You Need to Experience Pure 8K TV?
To ensure your 8K experience is as intended, these are the core components you’ll need:
What If Your Content and/or Streaming Service Isn’t 8K?
That’s totally ok, really! However, keep in mind that you can certainly watch non-8K content on your 8K display—upscaled to 8K—and your content will certainly look better on an 8K display than it will on a UHD, FHD, or 4K screen. Increasingly, TV set and content player makers are exploiting the rapidly developing power of AI to optimize the enhancement of upscaling.
But, for a true/pure 8K experience in which your 8K display is able deliver maximum immersive, cinematic results, then both the content and the streaming service will need to be 8K. Check out our FAQs for more information.
8K Brings High Immersion and Super Realism – at the Same Time!
Sitting close to a big display can bring a real feeling of immersion – of being ‘in the story’ – that’s part of the appeal of IMAX and other large format theaters. High resolution displays, with enough resolution to make objects look real, can bring “super realism”.
8K can bring the benefit of both of these at the same time. You can sit as close as you want to get the high immersion but still benefit from the super realism delivered by the high resolution.
For a deeper dive into 8K benefits and viewing distances, download the white paper, “Seeing the Bigger Picture.”
How Far From Your 8K Display Should You Sit?
Key to the benefit of viewing in 8K is that the resolution is able to support both high immersion and super realism at the same time. The extra resolution of 8K means that you can sit much closer to your TV than with lower resolutions. You can sit as close to the display as you want with 8K. Gamers, in particular, often like to ‘lean in’ to the screen.
Being very close to the screen can allow a similar sense of immersion to a premium movie theater.
Viewing distances are often ruled by practical considerations such as home décor, room design and space limitations, as well as types of content. What’s best for videogames may not be ideal for movies or live sports. And individual visual acuity and personal preferences also play a part.
These calculated viewing distances achieve 60° FOV (far) to 120° FOV (near). Actual viewing distances will vary according to room design, content type, personal preferences, etc.”
