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Sharp Now Shipping 8K TVs Overseas

More TV manufacturers expected to release 8K models within 18 months

April 23, 2018

Sharp’s Aquos LV-70X500E   

Sharp’s Aquos LV-70X500E   

After years of teasing at varying trade shows, Sharp has finally begun shipping the world's first commercially available 8K monitor, the 70-inch, 7,680 by 4,320 Aquos LV-70X500E (€11,199).

Thanks to the legal kerfuffle between Sharp, Sharp's owners Foxconn, and Hisense, which bought a five-year license to manufacture and distribute Sharp TVs in the U.S. market in 2015, this Aquos 8K monitor is not scheduled to ship in the U.S. in the foreseeable future, according to a Sharp representative. It went on sale in China, Japan and Taiwan at the end of last year, and shipments will begin in April to Europe.

However, 8K monitors are likely to be available in the U.S. at the end of the year from a variety of other brands. TCL, which claims to have risen to the world's No. 3 best-selling TV brand and only a percentage point behind LG, all but announced its intention to unveil its own 8K TV at last September’s IFA show in Berlin. It's likely that all the major Chinese TV brands will show their own 8K models at IFA this summer and at CES 2019 in January.