There is a lot of movement in the TV world this week, thanks to the Society for Information Displays (SID) 2023 event being held in Los Angeles, but the latest display to appear there is a 110-inch 16K LCD screen with truly awful specs! ...

TV journalist Vincent Teo witnessed this massive BOE display, which has a native refresh rate of 60 Hz, a maximum brightness of 400 nits, and a contrast ratio of 1200:1.

To put these specs in perspective, Samsung's QN95B Neo QLED TV (one of last year's best TVs) has a peak brightness of about 2,900 nits and a contrast ratio of 20,000:1. the BOE display has 16 times as many pixels as last year's premium Samsung QLED TV, but but those pixels are objectively unappealing.

In BOE's defense, the screen is supposed to be used as an informational display, not a replacement for a smart TV in the living room.

TV shows and movies are barely entering 4K territory, but that hasn't stopped TV manufacturers from pushing the envelope with higher resolutions.

TV makers like Samsung, LG, and Sony have been launching 8K TVs with regularity this time around, and even budget TV makers like TCL are starting to dabble in higher-resolution screens (see: TCL 6-Series R648).

Needless to say, the world is not yet ready for 16K, as few cinema cameras shoot at 16K, so any footage that is not native must be upscaled to that resolution, and as far as we know, no network, broadcast or streaming No network is capable of delivering it.

In short, the pipeline for 16K doesn't really exist right now.

As for intermediate 8K resolutions, there is still skepticism about the benefits for the majority of TV viewers. There is widespread consensus among reviewers that 8K TVs look better on larger screens, but it remains to be seen whether they will notice the difference between a 65-inch 4K TV and a 65-inch 8K TV. [Without a high contrast ratio, wide color gamut, and high peak brightness, you will only get a quarter of the experience that a good 4K TV like the Samsung QN95B can provide.