- Jul 25, 2010
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Hey all
This has been spoken about for a while but with CES and such recently it's come to a point that is somewhat ridiculous.
So...A while back we had mobiles go 'retina' and have huge PPI, shortly after that we had tablets start heading in that direction followed up by the first laptop last year and with CES showing dozens of TV's at 4K (although they don't quite count due to price just yet) also mobile phones hitting 1080p on a 5" screen and the 4K 20" tablet (which is a ridiculous product ) exactly why are we stuck at 1200p/1080p for screens below 27"?
When it was just mobiles I assumed maybe the tech didn't scale well so a monitor would be prohibitively expensive, tablets brought it a little closer..the 15" macbook a step closer still and the cost of the screen on that can't be too high considering the price of the entire device and apples markup.
I bought my main desktop monitor about 6 years ago now and while there are definitely nicer ones out nowdays (better colour gamut, contrast and refresh rate) they aren't actually that much nicer which is a massive timeframe for technology to have only improved incrementally.
I'm not posting to whine 'why isn't this here yet wtf' I'm actually genuinely asking people with more tech knowledge of manufacturing processes than I have if there is any reason outside of marketing that we haven't gotten them yet (because if there is I guess that might give some indication on when they could be expected).
I do understand graphics cards would choke and die on 4K resolutions with games but I'd be perfectly happy with a 24" 1600P monitor (or hell even 1440P) although gaming isn't the only thing we use computers for and the higher PPI would be very lovely to have for day to day non gaming use ^_^
So anyone care to enlighten me? ^_^
*edit changed DPI to PPI *
This has been spoken about for a while but with CES and such recently it's come to a point that is somewhat ridiculous.
So...A while back we had mobiles go 'retina' and have huge PPI, shortly after that we had tablets start heading in that direction followed up by the first laptop last year and with CES showing dozens of TV's at 4K (although they don't quite count due to price just yet) also mobile phones hitting 1080p on a 5" screen and the 4K 20" tablet (which is a ridiculous product ) exactly why are we stuck at 1200p/1080p for screens below 27"?
When it was just mobiles I assumed maybe the tech didn't scale well so a monitor would be prohibitively expensive, tablets brought it a little closer..the 15" macbook a step closer still and the cost of the screen on that can't be too high considering the price of the entire device and apples markup.
I bought my main desktop monitor about 6 years ago now and while there are definitely nicer ones out nowdays (better colour gamut, contrast and refresh rate) they aren't actually that much nicer which is a massive timeframe for technology to have only improved incrementally.
I'm not posting to whine 'why isn't this here yet wtf' I'm actually genuinely asking people with more tech knowledge of manufacturing processes than I have if there is any reason outside of marketing that we haven't gotten them yet (because if there is I guess that might give some indication on when they could be expected).
I do understand graphics cards would choke and die on 4K resolutions with games but I'd be perfectly happy with a 24" 1600P monitor (or hell even 1440P) although gaming isn't the only thing we use computers for and the higher PPI would be very lovely to have for day to day non gaming use ^_^
So anyone care to enlighten me? ^_^
*edit changed DPI to PPI *
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