14 DAY TRIAL // Well, you'd think that incredibly high resolution like 8K is meant for massive displays, and that through every pixel of detail right into your eye, you can feast on skin pore or blade of grass displayed on your monitor. Japan Display thinks that's too easy, so it decided to cram resolutions twice as big as you'll find in your home TV into a '90s-sized PC monitor.
In 2015, we bask in the glory of wall-sized TVs that cover huge amounts of room space in order to get the largest image possible to roll before our eyes, carrying as much detail as possible. Now, in 2015, we want to see everything. Well, Japan Display says that isn't the case and considered that huge pixel density shouldn't be the attribute of massive 75-inch displays only but that it could be part of smaller screens as well, giving them incredible image accuracy.
By announcing a 7.3-inch 8K LCD module capable of running at a smooth frame rate of 120Hz, Japan Display just unveiled a screen that holds a pixel density of 510 PPI, with an effective resolution of 7,680(W) x RGB x 4,320(H).
The small screen is an LTPS (low-temperature poly-silicon technology), transmissive IPS mode with a 500cd/m2 and a contrast ratio of 2000:1. According to the Japanese producer, the new monitor will be destined for use in video-editing, as medical display and even as gaming screen.
Cramming 8K resolution in tablet screens and smartphones isn't that far away
What is even more interesting is that if this sort of scalability has been achieved, then this sort of resolutions could easily reach tablet or even smartphone sizes in no time. While there is no known handheld product that has an 8K resolution, this is just a hint of the possibilities at hand.
Apparently, the incredible display will be exhibited in the NHK/JEITA booth on October 7 - 10, 2015 during CEATEC JAPAN 2015 held in collaboration with Japan's national public broadcasting organization.