Dell Announces UP3218K: Its First 8K Display, Due in March

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• arayoflight - Wednesday, January 11, 2017 - link

  All the 10xx cards carry DP 1.4 support last time I heard.

• tk.icepick - Tuesday, January 17, 2017 - link

  There is an XFX RX 470 on sale from Newegg right now. It has 3 Displayport 1.4 ports, 1 HDMI 2.0b, and 1 DL DVI-D, for 180 USD. ($165 after a 15 dollar rebate). Some models of 1050 Ti also have multiple DP 1.4 ports.

• TristanSDX - Tuesday, January 10, 2017 - link

  Samsung was rumored to begin mass production of 8K panels, so prices may quickly fall

• bill44 - Tuesday, January 10, 2017 - link

  All this talk about HDR, 8k for professionals. First, MS needs to fix (add a proper) color management in windows 10, then add HDR support.
  If the creator ed. only sorts scaling, it may be possible to use his monitor with a Mac?

• SodaAnt - Tuesday, January 10, 2017 - link

  Well considering they announced the UP3017Q, which was a 120Hz 4k OLED display last year at CES and still haven't released the darn thing, I'll believe this thing when I see it for sale.

• d7v7d - Wednesday, January 11, 2017 - link

  The Dell UP3218K has been a huge surprise to this person, an old large format landscape photographer. For the last two years I've been struggling trying to figure out how to put together an effective off the shelf 8k display by going to a 2x2 video wall panel system of 4k monitors with thin bezels on all 4 sides. However there has not been a single 4k display product at monitor sizes as all such products have at least one wider side for control and buttons. Actual video wall panels that put all that stuff fully behind screens are much larger at 46 inch diagonals or more and almost all are 2k sizes because their market is all about viewing video from a distance.
  
  My expectation had been that any actual 8k panels in the near future would be very expensive as has been the case targeting a video market. I can understand why Dells first 8k display is only 32 inches because much of the associated hardware and software is barely and or just recently available. Thus any marketing for a more expensive larger monitor could fall flat. However this one product will encourage acceleration with the rest of what is needed.
  
  I already own Dell 15.6 inch and 24 inch Ultrasharp 4k displays and believe the 24 inch to 32 inch or so size is the sweet spot for 4k pixel density for photography displays that apparently is shared by those that have been engineering those products as well as graphic and photography pros. I say so personally because my large images look awesome at 100% pixels on a 24 inch display that is at 187 ppi. That corresponds of course to historic high end fine art pixel printing densities of 200 to 300 dpi. Conversely photographs look mediocre up close on my old 24 inch 2k NEC display that is about half the density as do usual static images used at consumer retailers of larger 4k TV video screens.
  
  Currently there are many millions of photographers worldwide with high end digital cameras especially DSLR's that take images far larger than can fit at 100% pixels on even 4k monitors. But they cannot display their work at 100% resolution except in sections. To view full images requires downsizing. Further, today unlike my view camera film work of past decades, I create images much larger than top digital camera sensor sizes with multi row column stitch blending with focus stack blended individual frames. The logistics of exhibiting large bodies of work of such large images via traditional large prints is impossibly expensive as is logistics of moving around dozens of large framed prints. Hence I see the future of professional photography exhibition using the next generation of digital displays. And that will lead to myriad consumers wanting to see their images so likewise. A potentially HUGE market though likely sluggish initially.

• NoSoMo - Thursday, January 12, 2017 - link

  I have thought about this for some time. It shouldn't be hard for a MFG to make a small "magnifying" overlay that can enlarge say a 27" monitors viewing area enough that 4 panels can be placed next to each other nearly seamless. Basically some type of optics that enlarges the viewing area by 15mm all the way around the display. This would allow any number of displays to be placed next to each other while appearing as a single unit. Any 3d printers that can print optically clear mediums at very fine detail?
  
  2 ways I see to accomplish it. The first is to arrange, let's call them "light pipes" so that each one overlays a single pixel at the display and then increases in size ever so slightly ending up in a slightly trapezoidal shape. The second is using lenses in a more traditional method.
  
  Of course it seems the easiest way overall to do this is to just manufacture a panel 4x larger, use 4x the electronics and 4 video ports, and have the computer put the 4 images into one just as the current 2-in-1 displays such as this do it.

• d7v7d - Friday, January 13, 2017 - link

  NoSoMo, reads like you are not familiar with video wall systems, a major commercial display market that is also mature. They are at trade shows, in airports, in stock exchanges, in sports stadiums, and is what you are looking at during television news say when a weather guy is standing in front of a large display showing radar and satelite videos. These systems have narrow bezels on all 4 sides with all the electronics, mounting, and connectors on the back. There are mounting products with multiple arms from a superstructure frame to mount rows and columns of 2k panels. All this is major commercial cost. There are also expensive controllers for operating such video walls from individual as well as combined feeds. Video requires considerable bandwidth due to frame rates through image pipelines that often must be stored in stages with expensive fast memories while static images of photographers can get by with far less electronics because it doesn't matter if it takes a few seconds to load a single frame.
  
  AMD makes video cards with software that can drive 6 each 4k cards at once and make up for what is lost behind the narrow bezels. Much more, just search a bit. All the panels have dot pitches only worth looking at from a distance. But same designs COULD be implemented with 4k panels at the dot pitch densities I mentioned at say 24 to 32 inch sizes in order to make effective 8k displays that would be significantly cheaper than a single say 48 to 64 inch diagonal 8k display. Narrow bezel lines though less than ideal are really not that distracting when looking at large displays.

• fanofanand - Friday, January 13, 2017 - link

  400 Nits of brightness isn't sufficient for HDR anyway, regardless of available bandwidth. No more fake HDR!

• Syed_Listening - Sunday, January 29, 2017 - link

  Hope this series of Dell Monitors are free from sporadic pixelation.