Over at Jalopnik, a tour of the devastation last week's earthquake caused to Japan's infrastructure. The time it will take to rebuild the country is incalculable. [Photo Credit: Noboru Hashimoto / AFP - Getty Images; Jalopnik]
A Journey Through Japan's Demolished Infrastructure
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I am not on board with 8K. The TVs will be expensive, there’s zero content for them, and they’ll heavily rely on internal processors for upscaling that already struggle to upscale HD content properly to 4K. It seems smarter to work on HDR tech, which makes a more substantial improvement at this time than higher resolution. 8K feels less like new tech to be excited about, and more like flashy language someone in marketing is hoping will help a company sell a few more TVs.
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