8K Association Podcast with 16:9
8K Association Executive Director Chris Chinnock sat down with Dave Hynes a Digital Signage expert at the 16:9 trade publication to talk about how 8K is being used in the ProAV market and digital signage specifically. The conversation is available as a podcast at this link.
According to Haynes, there was a lot of skepticism and debate in the digital signage community when 4K commercial displays started coming on the market, with industry observers openly wondering if visual messaging applications needed that high level of resolution.
Several years later, 4K is perhaps not common, but certainly being used in many projects, and both accepted and supported.
And as 4K bedded in, the industry started seeing some of the bigger display manufacturers showing 8K displays at trade shows, and the debate about the demand and the challenges for super high resolution displays started all over again.
One of the ways an industry builds awareness, acceptance, support and standards for a new technology is to have working groups or organizations of stakeholders. There’s an 8K Association now, and the companies that got it going asked display industry veteran Chis Chinnock to step in and run it. An industry observer, writer, analyst and consultant, Chris has been around displays forever and seen the evolution. He understands what the engineers are going on about, but has the skills to explain it in terms mere mortals can understand.
He explained to me where 8K is at on the adoption curve (it’s still early) and we get into the implications of 8K on infrastructure. He also explain who will want and use 8K, and why.
