8K TVs are not selling but that has not stopped Chinese display panel maker BOE from developing a 110-inch LCD TV panel with 16K resolution – 16 times more than 4K resolution.

16K resolution, or 15360x8640, delivers a total of 132.7 million pixels, which is four times as many as 8K resolution and 16 times as many as 4K resolution.


 BOE's 110-inch 16K LCD panel. Photo: Ulrike Kuhlmann, Heise.de

Incidentally, 16 is also the number of DisplayPort cables it takes to run the monster.

DisplayPort 2.1 can actually push 16K 60Hz over a single cable but this part of the interface standard has not yet been deployed.


High resolution, low-end specs
The 110-inch 16K LCD panel was showcased at SID Display Week 2023 in Los Angeles and while FlatpanelsHD did not attend this year, our German colleagues from Heise.de did and reported that picture "looks like it was printed".

It is still a prototype LCD TV panel – not an actual TV yet. The bad news is that its other capabilities are not exactly high-end. It features a 60Hz IPS (ADS) LCD panel with maximum 400 nits brightness and only 1200:1 contrast ratio.

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Still, those meager specifications are unlikely to be the biggest roadblock, as existing 8K TVs are simply not selling in any significant quantity even 5 years after launch of the first generation models, partly because there is very little 8K content.


 16 DisplayPort cables are required to power the 16K LCD panel. Photo: Ulrike Kuhlmann, Heise.de
- Source: Heise