Samsung Electronics introduced in the present day that it has partnered with the 8K Association (8KA) to ascertain a first-of-its-kind certification program designed to tell apart 8K-enabled televisions and different units. The partnership marks one other milestone for Samsung’s QLED 8K as it will likely be among the many first TVs to be licensed by the 8KA subsequent 12 months, bearing the brand new certification brand.
“We are proud to be one of the founding members of the 8K Association and to have our new lineup of QLED 8K TVs certified by the program,” stated Hyogun Lee, Executive Vice President of the Visual Display Business at Samsung Electronics. “Our goal is to provide consumers with the ability to easily identify premium 8K displays from other devices when making purchasing decisions. Home entertainment and TVs are important investments for many of our consumers, and we hope that the 8KA Certification Logo will help guide them.”
The 8KA Certification Program goals to tell apart televisions that includes 4 instances as many pixels as the usual 4K televisions for readability, distinction and coloration and excessive dynamic vary (HDR) efficiency. Among the options examined embrace show decision reaching 7680 x 4320, peak brightness better than 600 nits, picture transmission of HDMI2.1 and excessive effectivity video codec (HVEC).
Member firms like Samsung Electronics will be capable to promote 8K licensed TVs after they’re validated by the 8KA. The 8KA additionally plans to extend instructional programming efforts this 12 months throughout many various industries with the intention to promote member participation, innovation and content material improvement inside the 8K ecosystem.
In addition to growth throughout totally different industries, the 8KA plans to unfold promotional actions for the 8K business by means of demos, showcasing the superior technological improvement of 8K-enabled merchandise, manufacturing workflow, supply choices and show units. The packages and initiatives will showcase how shoppers can have interaction with 8K content material, the ecosystem and its requirements.
The 8KA anticipates additional adoption of 8K content material creation, distribution and residential adoption, much like the evolution of 4K requirements adoption and shopper buy cycle over the previous a number of years. To-date, associate firms and organizations have all joined the 8K Association – additional broadening the membership to greater than 22 firms.
For extra info on the 8K Association and Samsung QLED 8K TVs, please go to www.samsung.com.
About the 8K Association
The group’s mission is to develop appreciation and consciousness of 8K merchandise which is able to present an excellent increased stage of leisure which is paramount to giant display screen leisure. Our actions embrace improvement efficiency and interface specs, compliance brand packages, schooling and coordination with 8K ecosystem builders to assist construct the 8K market.
