Sony 8K Available June 7th
Sony XBR-85Z9G 85″ Class (84.6″ viewable) LED TV
Introducing Sony 8K, exclusively powered by the X1 Ultimate Video Processor. With 4 times the pixels, it’s Sony’s most realistic picture ever. It has a pixel resolution of 7680×4320 and HDR technology for an incredibly immersive viewing experience. Video Imagery fills your field of view with extraordinary depth and texture. Get up close and revel in the fine details you could never see before. The Sony 8K will be available June 7th, just in time for Father’s Day. You will need to place your order right away since they are tightly allocated.
For those of you that may be concerned that nothing, meaning no content from Netflix, DirecTV, Spectrum Cable, over the air broadcast, etc., is broadcast in 8K, don’t be. What you are getting with this masterfully engineered television is 85″ in size with the same pixel density as a 55″ 4K television. What is pixel density you ask? It’s the number of dots that make up a given portion of the image. In this case we are talking about 100 ppi or pixels per square inch. That’s photographic quality from video display! You don’t need 8K content to benefit from an 8K display that same way you don’t need 4K content to benefit from a 4K display.
There are some important settings you will want to make with your source device to get the best quality. For example, you’ll want to find and enable “Native Mode” It’s buried deep within the DirecTV menu structure. Press the MENU button then navigate on screen to “Settings & Help” then “Settings” then “Display” then “Video”. Switch the setting for “Native” from “Off” to “On”. Sony’s Master Series televisions do a much better job interpolating resolution than your DirecTV box would do. You’ll also want to enable HDR passthrough sometimes referred to as DeepColor. But before these features are enabled make certain the cables or “pipes” are capable of handling the increased data flow you will be sending to the TV.
Make sure you are using 48 Gbps certified HDMI 2.1 cables for every connection from source device to TV. There is a big jump in bandwidth requirements just going from regular HD to 4K but there is an enormous jump going all the way to 8K. The HDMI cables must be able to transmit all of this data and clock the signal correctly. The longer the cable, the more the 5V signal degrades. The higher bandwidth requirements of 8K and 4K HDR dictate the use of premium, certified, silver-conductor, HDMI cables that conform to the HDMI 2.1 specification. For cable lengths of 10 meters or more we recommend the HDMI signal run over fiber-optics because they are far less susceptible to electrical interference and attenuation. You should be aware that HDMI cables rated for 4K, which are 99% of the cables out there, are not able to reliably transmit the 48 billion bits of information per second needed for 4K HDR aka DeepColor at 120 frames per second or 8K HDR at 60FPS.
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