Here’s why you shouldn’t buy a 8K TV in 2023

Obviously, if you have a large amount of disposable income, then feel free to buy whatever you like. That said, there’s not a lot of reasons to buy an 8K TV in 2023. Here’s why you shouldn’t buy an 8K TV in 2023:

• The availability of 8K content is limited and it can be challenging for some televisions to upscale lower resolution content to 8K resolution. Currently, most of the content available is in 720p or 1080p and upscaling to 4K resolution is already considered a challenge for some TVs.
• 4K TVs offer a better value for your money compared to 8K TVs
• HDMI 2.1 is still in its infancy. Most TVs only do 40GBPs not the full 48 GBPs of HDMI 2.1.

The lack of content is likely the biggest hill to climb, in our opinion, because the content being provided on cable is not even 4K, let alone 8K. We’ll keep our articles on 8K TVs and 8K content up to date as things change, but at this time, the options are limited. Let’s take a look at the two most popular 8K TVs on the market and their limitations.

8K TV Reviews

If that short list of reasons wasn’t enough, let’s take a look at some of the recent reviews of 8K TVs that came to market in 2022:

Hisense 75U800GR

Review from RTings.com:

“The Hisense U800GR 8k is Hisense’s first 8k LED TV available in the United States. It comes with the Roku TV platform as its smart interface, which is user-friendly. It’s only available in a 75 inch size, and its VA panel displays deep blacks, but like some other 8k TVs, its native contrast ratio isn’t as good as 4k TVs with VA panels. It has a local dimming feature that helps further deepen any blacks, but it also causes blooming around bright objects. There are a few gaming features like its HDMI 2.1 bandwidth, variable refresh rate (VRR) support, and quick response time, but while it has low input lag with 4k games, it increases with 8k games. Also, it supports HDR10+ and Dolby Vision for HDR content, and it displays a wide color gamut, but its HDR peak brightness is just okay. Although the 8k resolution is meant to deliver crispier images compared to 4k TVs, there’s also dithering with 4k and 8k signals, so it doesn’t display these resolutions perfectly.”

SAMSUNG Q900B

Review from RTings.com:

The Samsung QN900B is a great TV but has disappointing contrast and a lackluster local dimming feature, especially for the price. It delivers similar performance to most of the other recent 8k TVs like the TCL 6 Series/R648 2021 8k QLED, but 8k still isn’t worth it for most people, and there are many 4k TVs out there that offer better value for less.