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Re:The next best thing to OLED is getting cheaper by wffurr on Monday February 21, 2022 @09:52PM (#30423526)
There’s the LG Ultrafine 5k monitor, but I suppose it doesn’t have HDR or 10-bit color?
Re:The next best thing to OLED is getting cheaper by MrFoof on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @12:16AM (#30424259)
Neither. It came out in 2014, with some revisions since. 8 years later, there's just not much else out there in 5K-land.

The products basically don't exist.

I can get some rather fantastic 1440p displays -- HDR, 165Hz, DCI-P3 color gamut, and excellent color reproduction (especially when calibrated) for as cheap as $260 on sale. Best thing imaginable? No, but amazing for the price, and objectively better in every measure than the 1440p displays that were $1000+ in 2010.

I'd pay $2000 -- perhaps even $2500 -- each (and I'd buy THREE), for a 5K display that met my requirements.

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Hardware Unboxed recently made a video complaining that the display market is too heavily driven by gamers wanting a specific, narrow feature set for a rock bottom price.

Display makers have delivered that. However they don't really make much of anything else as a result.

It's a nasty, difficult, low-margin business where almost no one is making money, hence why it's huge volumes of largely the same thing with no major shifts forward.

Re:The next best thing to OLED is getting cheaper by wffurr on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @07:42AM (#30427206)
Seems like there have been advances, just not in pixel density beyond 160 PPI.

The bigger issue than low margins is the "4k" marketing and lack of large buyers other than Apple for 5k displays. I think early on in the 4k hype train, there was a bandwidth issue with Display port that required MST for 5k.

Re:The next best thing to OLED is getting cheaper by christophilus on Monday February 21, 2022 @10:41PM (#30423765)
It’s fantastic, though. And it’s hard to live with less than 500 nits once you’ve used it. 5k is where it’s at.