Serious Question if the 8K is 899$, what will the 8KX cost and what the hell must the 8K do to justify that price?

[Chucksta]

Isn’t it supposed to have different screens, so that it will have 4K native per eye, which is why the need for the 2 DP cables?

Hmm, I really hope it will be 4K native per eye. I’ve not found anywhere, where this is stated by a Pimax representative. Closest I have found, was something posted by a Pimax engineer, while they were working on the 8K itself.

@PimaxSWD

I’m software engineer from Pimax, And I’am very sorry that Pimax 8K have to need the 2 DP connections to support native 4K * 2 resolution, because we use the bridge chip - ANX7530 to convert DP 1.4 to MIPI, and the chip has some limitations as follows:

ANX7530’s DP input couldn’t support DSC, and it’s max bandwidth on DP input is 21 G, so it just support 2 * 3840 * 2160 * 50Hz, so we consider to use 2 DP input.
ANX7530 has a DSC engine to support convert native DP input to DSC MIPI output, however, the chip just have 2 horizontal slices, but each LCD panel need 2 to 4 slices at least while using DSC feature.

So we have to use 2 DP connections.

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