The Sony Xperia 1 II doesn’t have a feature that plenty of other premium phones do, in the form of 8K video shooting. While the Samsung Galaxy S20, Xiaomi Mi 10 and several Nubia handsets can shoot in this super-high-res format, the new Sony phone can’t – but the company has a great reason for it.

The president of Sony Mobile, Mitsuya Kishida, recently did an interview with AV Watch in Japan discussing its new flagship phone (while the Sony Xperia 1 II was unveiled in February, its release date remains largely a mystery). Of course, 8K video recording was one of the topics brought up.

According to Kishida, when it comes to 8K video “there is a problem of ‘where to see it'”, repeating often-touted arguments against 8K recording in phones in that relatively few people have a way to watch 4K content, let alone 8K, given the cost of required TVs or monitors.
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