The first 8K video from the space, it's cool, but good luck watching it in 8K on Earth

NASA has released the first ever 8K video tour in space. With the help of the European Space Agency (ESA), astronauts have collected a series of clips inside the space station – and some monitoring – with the help of the Helium 8K camera from RED. You can download the original file from the NASA website. (It is greater than 3 gigabytes LOL.) However, you probably can not find an 8K screen on which to enjoy it.

If this year's CES has not said anything about gadgets, it's because displays with 8K resolution are the way of the future. Samsung has revealed a TV, for example, that uses artificial intelligence to enhance 4K content so that it looks like 8K content. You can now buy this TV, which is not a real 8K TV, priced at $ 15,000. Sony and LG have introduced prototypes of televisions with a real resolution of 8K, although it is still not known if or when these televisions will be marketed. Meanwhile, Sharp beat everyone on the market and began shipping a 70-inch 8K TV to Europe earlier this year. This bad boy costs about $ 14,000. Sharp actually worked with RED to produce the device.

"Well, balderdash," you might think. "You can buy 8K computer screens on Amazon now!". Indeed, you can buy one from Dell for $ 4,000 in the online market, but with a screen size of only 31.5 inches, it is extremely unlikely that you will get the full effect. of Resolution 8K. Based on simple calculations and the functioning of the human brain, your eyes will not be able to distinguish between 8K, 4K and even Full HD content if the screen is not big enough and you do not have enough. do not sit far enough from that. That's why we have always discouraged readers from buying 4K TVs under 55 inches. You might as well save your money and choose the 1080p option because you probably will not be able to tell the difference.

None of this means that the new NASA 8K video is not great. This is the YouTube version in Full HD above. It's wonderful! You will be able to see interesting things like DNA sequencing by astronauts, a huge hurricane seen from space, the opening of an observation platform called Cupola, etc. Unless you are one of the lucky few to have bought one of these Sharp 8K TVs or if you got hold of a prototype, you probably will not see all the amazing little details captured by the camera Helium 8K. Wait a few years, though. The 8K TVs will arrive, and then you can extract that file from NASA and remind you that when it was so futuristic, you could not even look at it properly.