Affordable 4K displays will be out in months, like the new Lenovo Thinkvision Pro2840m which will only be $800. So when will over-priced $1100 1600P monitors finally drop in price?
I'm going to guess the introduction of the 4k screens will have little to no impact on these screens. As far as i know the 4k screens will come at the cost of having a 30hz refresh rate. This will make them unappealing to gamers etc coupled with the fact they will need much more GPU than is available without a insane investment to run any games supporting that resolution.
4K supports 60Hz if you have the right hardware - it's more a limitation of the technology used to connect the display to the GPU more than anything else. DisplayPort 1.2 supports 4K at 60Hz no problem. I don't think 1600p monitors will drop in price, I think they'll just stop being made. They're generally sold to professionals who would likely switch to 4K anyway.
Well, you have to take the following into account: 4K +Awesome DPI -Requires awesome hardware for new games 1600p +- Relatively good DPI +Can be run on reasonably priced hardware for most games -Currently has the highest cost per pixel (excepting high end 4K) 1440p +- Relatively good DPI +Can be run on reasonably priced hardware for most games +Good bang for buck I think Cei's right. People who want to play games on a large screen with high resolution without breaking the bank will go for 1440p whereas those who are top end professionals or willing to pay through the nose will go for 4K. 1600p will either die out or become even more expensive to cater for the crowd who want to keep to 16:10. @TGS: Here in the UK Scan are selling a 30" 1600p screen for £743. Maybe someone in Americaland is doing something similar.
Different markets ... 28" 4K will push out the 16:9 27" panels. At a guess 30" 1600p panels will be here to stay for the current market until they are replaced with sharper 16:10 panels. Desktop productivity and games have different requirements. I've got a 30" Dell - I'm in no rush to upgrade. What these cheap screen show is how underpowered the new consoles are if they can't even manage 1080 properly ...
The 27" 1440p are the panels used by gamers who won't be moving to 4K any time soon due to the GPU power needed to sustain decent frame rates. The people who will buy in to 4K will be video and image professionals, followed by other designers and artist types. At 4K resolution you're packing more vertical pixels than 1600p, so who cares about aspect ratio? What these screens show is how underpowered the Xbox One is. The PS4 does 1080p perfectly fine.
Cost of screen for gaming looks like been Irelivent with the problem been Gpu hardware costs, 2 780ti is not 60fps in most newer games at 4k with all settings maxed. I'd need a major rebuild to go 4k in games not sure I'd be that intrested at the min in truth. Would probably need to spend £1500 to £2 k on just gpus. Then prob need a platform upgrade for enough pcie express slots for 16x 3 operation.
I'm rocking a GTX 780 on a 27 inch 144Hz monitor right now. I might notice the Hz difference more than the resolution. I used a 30 inch Dell 1600P and didn't like it
I presume the lack of responsiveness, the overall blur, the way the cursor jerks around the screen rather than smoothly sliding there, the lack of that tiny-but-significant professional advantage in shooters, the inability to focus on objects when panning your view in games... just a hunch.
Those issues appear to be your GPU being too weak-sauce to drive the monitor more than anything, but I was curious to hear from the OP.
Some peopel prefer the responsiveness to the 'prettier' image, larger size or higher res I would assume. Also I don't think he was implying his gpu couldn't keep up, merely making comments on 60hz vs 120+hz monitors.
Maybe I'm just not that discerning since I have the VG278H (which is usually sitting in the closet) and especially as a general purpose monitor I can't really reconcile the piss-poor panel behaviour with the systems I use with 3014's or 2713's.
I didn't realize there were so many 30" screen owners, let alone of a specific model! For some reason I assumed Nexxo just had an HTPC set up to a nice 1080p screen.
