- The first 8K 120Hz monitor recently showed the event of the display week
- The use of the real world for 8K monitors always feels far out of reach
- Display manufacturers continue to build while the market is not convinced
During the recent event of the 2025 display week, the Chinese company Boe showed the very first 31.5 inch 8K instructor capable of operating at 120 Hz.
The CR3000 offers a contrast report of 8000: 1, a range of colors of 99% DCI-P3, and also supports 240 Hz in 4K mode.
Boe, who is the largest panel manufacturer in the world and was also a sponsor of the show, said 8K association He plans to start mass production later in 2025, although the details on prices and the final integration of the products are still unknown.
Other 8K panels on display
The display week is often an overview of the place where display technology can be directed rather than where it is currently. This model continued this year with a number of other 8K panels on display.
TCL / CSOT has brought an OLED 8K TV panel print with jet jet, a project partly built from its acquisition from JOLED, and SEL surprised the participants with an 8.3 -inch LCD panel which offered more than 1,000 PPI, which is the most clear color LCD indicated to date.
In addition to his 8k 120Hz beast, Boe had a number of other products on display. These included the latest version of its Minled Ub Cell 4.0 ADS Pro TVS, which aims to challenge OLED with a deeper contrast and better efficiency, and an 85-inch 4K panel with a RGB backlight system operating in a filter without mode which could one day reduce electricity consumption and complexity, in particular in 8K applications.
He also had a 3D display prototype with eye monitoring based on 16K development. Although still at the start of the stage, image quality and parallax control impressed those who could see it in action.
Always ahead of his time
The BOE CR3000 panel arrives at a time when the wider market always catches up with a 4K game with high refreshment, not to mention 8K.
While PC players have started to see traditional GPUs offering a 4K60 stable gameplay, pushing this four times in resolution and dubbing refreshment raises difficult questions. The scaling and generation of frames can be more a necessity than a functionality if such a panel should be usable for the game or creative work.
Although I can’t help but be impressed by the 8k 120 Hz monitor, I have the impression that it is ahead of its time. Equipment to drive it effectively does not exist on a large scale, and most buyers are probably not ready for what would surely be a high cost niche product.
The 8K monitors had to strike the dominant current a few years ago, but that did not happen. This last panel can be technically impressive, but I am not convinced that the world is ready for this.
