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The 8K Association offers a news service in the form of an emailed newsletter called The 8K Monitor. This includes original articles on 8K products, technologies, services, demonstrations and more, plus links to other media reports on 8K industry activities. Our aim is to not only provide a reliable source of 8K-related news but to also illustrate the widespread activity happening throughout the professional and consumer-focused ecosystems. The 8K Monitor is THE news source for 8K-related activity.

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The latest in 8K news:

January 19, 2023

Value Electronics Chooses JVC 8K Projector in Shoot-out Value Electronics is well known and recognized in the display community for hosting well-run shoot-outs on TVs and projectors to try to decide the bes ... Read More

December 17, 2022

8K (Wide) MiniLED Monitors To Appear at CES 2023 In a recent announcement by AMD of its RX7900 series, Samsung teased us with the news of a new 8K wide monitor to be shown at CES 2023. (we’ve l ... Read More

November 12, 2022

USB4/DisplayPort/Thunderbolt Changes Boost 8K Support There have been a number of announcements about changes to USB4 (to Version 2), DisplayPort to Version 2.1 and Thunderbolt to Thunderbolt 5 that are r ... Read More

November 12, 2022

Thanks to VRR, Your 8K TV May Be Your Best 4K 120 Gaming Display Although 8K TVs are usually designed for watching video content, it turns out that they may actually be outstanding displays for playing games at R ... Read More

October 3, 2022

Denon and Marantz Launch New 8K Receiver Ranges Marantz and Denon have both released new receivers that support 8K. The AV 10 is the flagship for Marantz, which also has a new high-end Cinema line w ... Read More

Where to Find 8K Content For a great viewing experience in any resolution, you need content, delivery and display. The industry has developed fantastic 8K displays, and there ... Read More

Will Apple Join the 8K Video Party? It’s incredible how smartphones, produced in enormous volumes, have led the way in so many technology areas. The sheer scale of the market (Coun ... Read More

Display Week & ISE Show Advances in Big TV Technology We recently published a round-up of developments in the very large TV market (100″ class). Since then, we have been to two events. The SID Displ ... Read More

Using a Phone to Calibrate an 8K TV Samsung has released new software called Smart Calibration that allows ordinary consumers to calibrate their 4K or 8K TV in their own living room with ... Read More

8K to the Max – a Look at 100” Class TVs One of the joys of 8K is that you can use huge displays yet still avoid that ‘dotty’ look or ‘pixelation’ where you can see th ... Read More

Cables for 8K We thought it was about time to summarize where we’re up to on cables for 8K display use. As some readers may want to know ‘what do I need to buy? ... Read More

Thunderbolt 3 and 4 Compared The development of the Thunderbolt interface has been intriguing. Historically, PCs have often had both high speed and low speed interfaces. In the pa ... Read More

VESA Clarifies DisplayPort 2.0 Cable Labelling This week VESA, the PC-centric video and graphics standards organization, announced that it has a new certification program for devices (including vid ... Read More

February 26, 2022

McIntosh MX180: A USD 30k Audiophile Flagship 8K AV receiver Sound is critical to a premium video experience If you’ve recently upgraded to an 8K TV or intend to soon, you’ll probably want to bring t ... Read More

October 6, 2020

Vivify Launches UHS HDMI 2.1 48G Cables: 8K Monitors Era Comes Closer UHS HDMI cables for gamers are now here (Image credit: Vivify) Vivify has announced its first HDMI 2.1 cables that support a 48 Gbps bandwidth an ... Read More