Samsung Partners with 8K Association to Launch Certification Program
Jan. 3, 2020Under this new partnership, the company’s 8K QLED TV will be one of the first televisions to be certified by the 8K Association, and will bear the new certification logo to signify this certification. The 8K certification logo can be seen below.The 8K Certification Logo
Commenting on the 8K QLED line-up receiving the 8K certification, Hyogun Lee, Executive VP of the Visual Display Business at Samsung said,“We are proud to be one of the founding members of the 8K Association and to have our new lineup of QLED 8K TVs certified by the program”. Further, he noted that“Our goal is to provide consumers with the ability to easily identify premium 8K displays from other devices when making purchasing decisions. Home entertainment and TVs are important investments for many of our consumers, and we hope that the 8KA Certification Logo will help guide them.”
To get certified by the 8K Association under this new certification system, member companies will be required to get their devices tested for a number of specification requirements includingdisplay resolutions reaching 7680×4320, a peak brightness greater than 600nits, support for HDMI 2.1, and support for the High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC).
According to Samsung’s press release announcing this partnership, the 8K Association now has 22 member companies which will get their 8K ready devices certified by the association to make them stand-out against the crowd of4K TVsalready saturating the market.
