panasonic's Newest TV Prototype Is Big for Your Living Room From: www.pcworld.com, 28-4-2012 Panasonic Japan just raised the game in the "mine is bigger than yours" battle by taking the wraps off its huge 145-inch 8k television, thus outdoing Sharp's 85-inch 8k set by a healthy margin. The mammoth plasma set, made inpartnership with Japan's public broadcaster NHK , has a sizable 7680x4320-pixel resolution and claims to be the world's first self-luminous display (that is, it doesn't need a backlight). By comparison, current HDTVs typically max out at 1920x1080-pixel resolution. Panasonic's also claims that its new TV is flicker-free, something difficult to achieve on a display of this size The "Super Hi-Vision" display, a technology also known as ultra high definition television , is currently only a prototype, with 8k technology still several years away from being ready for consumers. The huge 145-inch TV will be shown in action next month at NHK's laboratories , and will then visit the US in June . If you're going, you may want to take a pair of shades.