Re:The state of external retina displays
by salamandersauce on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @01:36PM
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Resolution is only a single spec. Other things like viewing angles, response time, refresh rate,brightness, HDR, etc. have been getting better and better for less. A premium 1080p monitor from 15 years ago will not be nearly as good as a modern reasoanbly priced one.
I got one of the 4K ones last year and it was the same price as when introduced. The only price reduction was due to inflation.
I assume the desktop monitor business is so low margin that itβs barely worth investing in these days.
Re:The state of external retina displays
by gfxgirl on Monday December 27, 2021 @10:35PM
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There's a market of at least 1 (me) waiting for an HD-DPI wide display. All of the 34 - 38 inch displays are LD-DPI :( My LG 38" is 3840x1600. I want it to be 7680x3200 in the same size monitor
Re:The state of external retina displays
by seanmcdirmid on Monday December 27, 2021 @10:38PM
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Dell offers a 32β 8K monitor. Driving that beast needs two DPs on your graphics card, however.
> I think it can still make sense, but very often when people buy the premium in computers or displays they are getting the same thing everyone else gets 30-50% cheaper 1 year later.
I'd normally agree, but the article's point is that this isn't happening with displays - we're stuck at 4K as the best available except for a handful of displays that are still expensive even years after introduction.
I bought my LG Ultrafine 5K in 2018, and it launched in 2016. There's still no real alternative - we seem to be in a monitor progress limbo.