14 DAY TRIAL // We thought that UHD resolution, 3840 x 2160 pixels also known as 4K, would be the talk of this year's Consumer Electronics Show, and while that's true, it's also not the greatest achievement, display-wise. Sharp has a reason to feel smug because of it.
The company has one of the larger halls in Las Vegas, Nevada, and among the many displays, there can be found an 85-inch 8K model.
8K can refer to several resolutions, like 8192 x 5120 pixels for 16:10 aspect ratio, 8192 x 4320 for 17:9, 7680 x 4320 for 16:9, 10080 x 4320 for 21:9, and 8192 × 8192 for square displays.
Given the shape of the Sharp model though, we are fairly certain that this is an ultra wide screen at 21:9 AR, so the resolution is probably of 10080 x 4320.
Enough to get people gaping like fish, to be sure, but it's not the only asset that Sharp included. Indeed, the company also made the panel 3D-capable.
And it did not implement just any 3D support, but the glasses-free kind. We assume it figured that the narrow viewing angles of glasses-free TVs would be compensated for by the sheer size of the thing.
Not all visitors were impressed by the 3D though, since human eyes can get tired from the effect pretty quickly, and the content can seem blurry when frames pass through the display too fast.
Other than that, though, the image was described as very sharp (a pun on the company name perhaps?) while showing scenes from Life of Pi and Frozen.
The Sharp 8K 3D TV is still in the early stages of development, so that's actually better than anyone could have expected.
Future iterations are bound to be more refined, even though glasses-free 3D TV, as it is now, probably won't catch on any time soon.