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JVC showed off a prototype 8K Super Hi-Vision projector in 2008 at CEATEC, and now it’s ready to ship a real product later this month, dubbed the DLA-VS4800. JVC’s e-Shift pixel technology is at play here, which we first saw in consumer products with the ‘4K’ projectors it shipped in 2011, and updated in last year’s models. Basically the D-ILA display panel inside the device is half the resolution (in this one, 4,096 x 2,400) but projects two images alternated at 120Hz, one shifted slightly diagonally. This creates the impression of a higher res display, without actually upping the pixel count.

Based on our demos of the tech at CEDIA for the last two years, the effect is very convincing, however with AV Watch’s presumed price tag of 25 million yen ($261k US — and that’s without the 4 available lenses, which have no price), we might want a few more real pixels, if such a product were available for purchase. Still, if you want the first 8K display device on the block, this is your only choice, unless you can convince Sharp to part with one of its sweet 8K Super Hi-Vision LCD prototypes (we’ve asked, we’ve begged, we’ve planned Ocean’s 11-style heists — it’s not possible.) The other issue is that you’ll still need some content to view, and with the roadmap currently putting test broadcasts in 2016, leaving this one to the museums and planetariums it’s intended for may be the best course of action.

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The folks at Samsung have begun to deliver their full 2013 lineup of beastly television technology complete with prices, starting with the monstrous S9 UHD. The Samsung S9 UHD TV going by code-name UN85S9 will be available in pre-order form from Samsung by the end of March for a cool $39,999 USD. This machine works with an 85-inch 4k-resolution screen and we’ve had our own up close and personal look at it earlier this year at CES 2013 – have a peek!

The S9 you’re seeing in the video here is one of two eye-destroying UHD televisions revealed by Samsung this year at CES, the other being an absurd 110-incher. This S9 model is a bit closer to a realistic release – if you’ve got $40k, that is – and you’ve got 3-way 2.2 channel, 120 watt sound blasting forth as well. With the ability to up-scale HD or Full-HD to UHD-level picture quality, you’ll have trouble turning this machine down if presented with it in a shiny birthday wrapping.

This pricing scale has been announced alongside several other devices that you’ll certainly want to pick up besides the beast – perhaps not the whole lot, but a few here and there, of course. Have a peek at this rather simple-to-digest list and see what you make of it:

• HW-F750 soundbar with vacuum tube technology: March for $799
• HT-F6500W home theater system with vacuum tube technology: March for $599
• DA-F60 portable wireless Bluetooth speaker: April for $299
• MX-FS9000 Giga Sound System (Flagship): May for $1,499
• MX-FS8000 Giga Sound System: June for $999
• 2013 Smart Evolution kit: May for $299.99

There’s also the Samsung 2013 flagship LED Smart TV if you’re not aiming to go insanely-highest-grade. We had a look at the F8000′s supreme exellence back at CES 2013 as well, there seeing its rather great “richest colors” and “highest contrasts” and “brightest picture quality of any Samsung LED TV to date.” This machine will be available in sizes ranging between 46-inches to 75-inches with varying price points throughout the year – fun! Same goes for the F8500 Plasma TV series, with several models between 51-inches and 64-inches coming this year at yet-unnamed price points.

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Museum owners, public officials and design studio heads are just the sort who would have an excuse to splash out on one of MyMultitouch’s displays. The 84-inch PixelSense-esque table is designed to be used by up to 32 fingers at once, letting groups paw around interactive exhibits on a large scale. This one, in particular, comes with a 3,840 x 2,160 UHD display, infrared-based multitouch and a steel stand that lets you mount it at a wide variety of angles. Since it’s driven by any PC with a 4K-outputting graphics card, you could even use it as your own desktop display, although you’d need to drop €33,000 ($43,100), plus whatever an 84-inch desk would set you back.

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The future of TV is supposed to involve streaming video, and it’s also supposed to involve 4K TVs — but melding the two has been difficult. Telefonica wants to show that the feat is at least possible with mere mortal connections: it’s been using Mobile World Congress to show 4K video streaming on a 100Mbps fiber-to-the-home link. As our Spanish teammates can attest, the (admittedly very local) demo works as well as you’d hope, providing all the fine details without buffering or other hiccups. There’s no estimated timeframe for a commercial service, but we wouldn’t hold out hope of a version that would fit on cable or DSL when there’s a raw 40Mbps bitrate.

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Source: Engadget Spanish (translated)

We already know the PlayStation 4 will have some impressive internal specs as it’ll have a 6x Blu-ray drive, 8-core AMD CPU and 8GB of RAM, but one feature that wasn’t revealed during their big unveiling last night was the fact it’ll be able to support 4K displays.

Before you get all excited and even begin to consider purchasing a 4K display, you should know the 4K support won’t be usable for playing games as those will still be displayed at 1080p. Instead, the 4K support will come to playing 4K video streams, which the U.S. is still a few years from achieving at this point.

Being able to deliver games that run on 4K displays would mean a serious bump in resolution as running a game at a 3840 x 2160 resolution would probably melt our brains anyways with the amount of detail developers would have to pump out at a reasonable frame rate. We say we keep the game playing at an already eye-watering 1080p resolution, m’kay?

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Apparently Sony Has Yet To Finalize The PS4’s Design, PlayStation 4 Will Not Support PlayStation 3 Controllers,