Anyone know if an 8K streaming stick exists?

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bighat

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Nov 1, 2021 8 Comments

Just got an 8K Samsung TV and the UI design / performance is garbage. Would love to use Roku but its stick only goes up to 4K and looks terrible upscaled to 8K. Doesn’t look like NVidia Shield or Apple TV has 8K either

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  • Unless you have a 100inch TV 8k does make any sense
    Nov 1, 2021 2
    • Amazon / Design
      bighat

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      bighat
      OP
      That’s what everyone says, but you really can tell the difference between 4 and 8K on a TV as small as 60-70 inches. Oceans have ripples, you can see individual hairs on animals, and leaves on trees from aerial shots
      Nov 2, 2021
    • Streaming 8K is not exactly 8K quality and the upgrade from streaming 4K to streaming 8K is noticeable. The TV capability is still underutilized, but that’s a different problem.
      Nov 2, 2021
  • New
    QkGx85

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    QkGx85
    You can hookup a video card off a pc for 8k to output to the TV. The streaming services don’t have any content besides YouTube landscape shots and such. As soon as streaming services support like Netflix and others start then you will start seeing devices support them. Same thing happened when 4K came out. But you are a very early adopter. I don’t even think there are 8k blue rays out ? Your best bet is a PC but also get a good 4K blue ray player. I don’t think you need a 8k feed to upscale. That would defeat the purpose of upscaling the TV should upscale for you, no ? Also a lot of “4K” content isn’t even actually 4K especially streamed. A nice 4K blue ray will knock the socks off a lot of streamed 4K content. Having said that PS5s and maybe the Xbox might support 8k , if not now in the future ? Or maybe they do. They have the streaming services you can load on the ps5 and watch from there if you want to try to have something that supports 8k but I think it needs to get released via a software update yet still
    Nov 1, 2021 1
    • Amazon / Design
      bighat

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      Thanks for the input, yes I think PS5 releasing their 8K software update is my best bet, right now it only outputs at 4K.
      Nov 2, 2021
  • Amazon
    spceghost

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    spceghost
    Is there any 8k content?
    Nov 1, 2021 1
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      bighat

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      bighat
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      There is! lots of beautiful nature and travel content on YouTube. Plus native 4K looks great scaled up to 8K if it can go through an 8K feed
      Nov 1, 2021
  • Roku
    WKux88

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    WKux88
    Return your TV and get a Roku 8K TV
    Nov 3, 2021 0