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Television Goes 8K: Can You See the Difference?
The impressive technology promises better imaging in medicine and other fields as well as entertainment, but how much more can our eyes see?
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Only a decade has passed since television broadcasters stopped transmitting signals in formats developed in the 1950s for vacuum-tube technology. The digital high-definition television (HDTV) format that replaced the old analog broadcasts represented a huge advance in image quality, particularly when shown on flat-panel displays based on backlit arrays of liquid crystal devices (LCDs).
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