Issue #74 | OCTOBER 4, 2022

Denon and Marantz Launch New 8K Receiver Ranges

Bob Raikes reports on Discover8K, our consumer-facing website, that Marantz and Denon have released new receivers supporting 8K. A $399 entry-level product supports 8K/60Hz, 4K/120Hz, HLG, HDR, Dolby Vision, HDR10+ pass-through, and 8K upscaling on all HDMI inputs and one output.

8K Upscaling Reviewed Part 2

UltraHD Blu-ray is the best mainstream source for high-quality content to act as a candidate for upscaling. That's because the high capacity of UltraHD Blu-ray allows bit rates from 72 Mbps to 144 Mbps, so content does not need to be compressed so strongly. Bob Raikes's second article is here. 

First 8K gaming benchmarks for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

As we suspected, the first reports on 8K game play with the NVIDIA 4090 are out with many popular games showing frame rates above 60 fps with some games running native 8K HDR and other using DLSS 3 and ray tracing to get above 60 fps. That's impressive. The PC needs to be pwerful too - i9-12900k 24 GB RAM based. The DSOG Gaming article is here.

Introducing Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series for the Intelligent Visual Cloud

Intel has re-branded its previously code-named 'Arctic' Add-in Graphic boards as 'Flex 140 and Flex 170'. The boards are intended for use in data centers and server systems, including those used for content encoding locally and in the cloud. The boards are said to be the first data center GPUs to include a hardware-based AV1 encoder. They are claimed to provide five times the media transcode and twice the decode throughput performance of other solutions but using only half the power. Intel's press release emphasized that the Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series 140 with two devices on a single card can meet the industry’s one-second delay requirement while providing 8K60 real-time transcode of AV1 and HEVC HDR.

V-Nova Demos MPEG-5 LCEVC Boosting Speed & Reducing AV1 Power Consumption

This video link is for a presentation on a study done with V-Nova, Intel, and Meta to evaluate using LCEVC in combination with several codecs. It finds efficiency advantages and reduces the complexity of the encode depending on the chosen codec. The video provides more detail than the summary we highlighted in our video news summary from IBC.

Rings of Power in 8K verdict: dwarf hair has never looked crisper

JVC DLA-25LTD Projector with 8K Picture Quality

Samsung's 8K TV gave me a glimpse of the future -- and a big reason to look away

Countless OLED and 8K TVs are threatened with a sales cessation from March 2023