LG leaked the following statement on one of its blogs;
"It has become clear that Japan is planning to launch an 8K SHV test broadcast and then promptly restructure the UHD service. Apple has also announced that they will release the iMac 8K with a super-high resolution display later this year. Korea is also preparing to offer an 8K service demonstration at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. LG Display displayed a new beacon of the 8K era by revealing their 98-inch 8K Color Prime Ultra HDTV at CES 2015."
The statement was removed after everybody noticed.
All of the industry gossip sites seem to assume it will be the Super UHD resolution 7680x4320, but I think it could be 8192x5120 instead. That would be a 16:10 resolution, which Apple favors so video applications can show full video as well as application tools, and it would be a true 8K resolution which Super UHD is not. UHD, which everyone refers to as 4K, is 3840x2160 instead of 4096x2304 (16:9) or 4096x2560 (16:10), and with the 5K iMac, Apple chose to go with a true 5K resolution of 5120x2880 instead of a lower resolution.
"It has become clear that Japan is planning to launch an 8K SHV test broadcast and then promptly restructure the UHD service. Apple has also announced that they will release the iMac 8K with a super-high resolution display later this year. Korea is also preparing to offer an 8K service demonstration at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. LG Display displayed a new beacon of the 8K era by revealing their 98-inch 8K Color Prime Ultra HDTV at CES 2015."
The statement was removed after everybody noticed.
All of the industry gossip sites seem to assume it will be the Super UHD resolution 7680x4320, but I think it could be 8192x5120 instead. That would be a 16:10 resolution, which Apple favors so video applications can show full video as well as application tools, and it would be a true 8K resolution which Super UHD is not. UHD, which everyone refers to as 4K, is 3840x2160 instead of 4096x2304 (16:9) or 4096x2560 (16:10), and with the 5K iMac, Apple chose to go with a true 5K resolution of 5120x2880 instead of a lower resolution.