{"id":144298,"date":"2022-04-28T10:40:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T09:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=144298"},"modified":"2022-04-28T10:40:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T09:40:54","slug":"2021-has-been-a-bad-year-for-8k-tvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/tv\/2021-has-been-a-bad-year-for-8k-tvs\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 has been a bad year for 8K TVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the seemingly obvious advantage of\u00a0<b>8K<\/b>\u00a0technology , offering\u00a0<b>4 times<\/b>\u00a0higher resolution than\u00a0<b>4K<\/b>\u00a0, its progress is extremely slow.\u00a0The most eloquent evidence of this is the depressing statistics of sales of\u00a0<b>8K<\/b>\u00a0TVs .\u00a0But since their appearance on the market in 2018, many analysts regularly predicted their victorious global march.\u00a0However, reality shows that consumers are not yet convinced of the need to join the new technology.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"fr-fic fr-dib aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/108_techweek.\" alt=\"\" \/><i>Sales of 8K TVs, thousand units<\/i><\/p>\n<p>According to data firm\u00a0\u00a0<b>Statista ,\u00a0<\/b><b>520,000<\/b>\u00a08K TVs were sold in 2021,\u00a0representing only\u00a0<b>0.23%<\/b>\u00a0of the total market of\u00a0<b>213.5 million<\/b>\u00a0TVs.\u00a0Among the main reasons for this situation are high prices and the lack of original content.\u00a0However, analysts are convinced of the good outlook, with sales of 8K TVs expected to nearly triple this year thanks to increased production and increased competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the seemingly obvious advantage of\u00a08K\u00a0technology , offering\u00a04 times\u00a0higher resolution than\u00a04K\u00a0, its progress is extremely slow.\u00a0The most eloquent evidence of this is the depressing statistics of sales of\u00a08K\u00a0TVs .\u00a0But since their appearance on the market in 2018, many analysts regularly predicted their victorious global march.\u00a0However, reality shows that consumers are not yet convinced of the [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/tv\/2021-has-been-a-bad-year-for-8k-tvs\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10402,"featured_media":144299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[641],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-144298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}