“Is there any point in buying an 8K TV?” is a question that I’m asked very regularly. And with very good reason: we’ve been reviewing 8K TVs since 2018 (the first was the 85-inch Samsung Q900R, if you're interested) and yet, seven years on, there’s still essentially no native 8K content available.
Sure, you can watch some lovely 8K demo content on YouTube (though watch out for the videos that play in 8K but are really just upscaled 4K), and there’s a dedicated 8K TV channel in Japan, but that aside, there’s essentially nothing to watch in native 8K. What's more, there is still no sign of a current or new streaming service going 8K, nor any hint of an 8K disc format ever appearing. While the worthwhile introduction of 8K one day seems inevitable, it barely seems closer now than it did in 2018.
