When Will 8K Video Be Available on Mac?

[MacCruiskeen]

I don't even get much call for 1080p up here in the sticks, most gigs are 720p max...I'd be willing to bet there's a sizable percentage of the local population that doesn't even own an HD TV set.

Here in the non-sticks we have an HD tv but we don't have HD cable service because we don't want to pay extra for it. Just not worth it to us--better resolution isn't going to make the content any better. Still going to be mostly crap. It's hard to imagine 8K being worth it for anything less than theatre-size projection.

 

[clamnectar]

Couldn't be more wrong!

HD is not even fully here yet. Most cable TV is still in 1080i max. Most of the providers can't even bring live 1080P to their customers, and this after roughly 10 years of HD. 4K may be fine for the computer environment, but in terms of taking over the living room, this will take a LONG time. The key to this whole problem is content and as long as TV channels are not in 4K, this technology won't really take off. I could envision a scenario where the TVs/Monitors are here but the content is not. And for true 4K quality video to stream perfectly, broadband speeds and availability will have to increase in unimaginable amounts. But to say that 4K "happened" is not a serious comments. It's not even here yet. What's your definition of "4K happened" ?

^^^
This guy knows what's up. That's why multi-stream 4k editing in FCP is more of a curiosity than a need, even if it's impressive on a technical level.