I've seen Super Hi Vision a few years ago on a big screen. The 8K cameras though only used 4x 2/3" sensors so DOF didn't seem at all shallow. I'm inclined to think NHK were using some pixel shifting magic to get 8K "resolution". By comparison Sony's demo of their 4K projection system showing scenes from Baraka taken from the neg scanned at 8K totally blew NHK's effort out of the water.
That seems pretty pointless for televisions under a certain size - and I'd guess that well over 90% of people don't have a home with a room large enough to accommodate a TV that may be big enough to take advantage of the resolution. Not without it looking incredibly tacky, anyway, as all large screens do when people try to squeeze them into inadequately-sized rooms. And it would be a very long time before there's any 8K content for the home. Studios wouldn't be that eager to sell what could essentially be considered reference-quality copies of their films to consumers... after that, what would be left to sell us?
Personally, I'd rather have an extremely high-quality, OLED HD or 4K television in the 46" - 54" range than a pre-LED LCD TV of that insane resolution. Just as OLED appears on the horizon with the hope of finally allowing us to shake off both LCD and Plasma and their respective weaknesses, another huge boost in resolution would force us right back into the days of crude display technologies.