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When will 4K become the standard for monitors?

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I think we can all agree 1080p is the current standard, being the most affordable gaming and general use monitor whilst giving very nice sharp picture quality. 

 

4K is far superior in every way, besides the price to buy and hardware required to run, especially for smooth gaming. 

 

So when will we see 4K being affordable enough that most users will be able to buy and run these monitors how we run most 1080p screens? 

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2-3 years I guess.

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I honestly believe that 1440P will be coming into most homes in 2 - 3 years.

4K will be atleast 5 years.

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I will say around 1-2 years, once sweet spot GPUs handle 4k at medium at most games and 4k monitor prices start at 280 dollars

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I would say 5 Years. 90% of the people i know, didn't pay more than 200E  for their monitor and i don't believe we'll see 4K monitors at 200Euros in 1-3 years. 

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I would much rather stick with 1440p, even though I dont have it yet.

Yes, that sounds perfect.

I use 1600x900.

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I honestly believe that 1440P will be coming into most homes in 2 - 3 years.

4K will be atleast 5 years.

That far away?

 

I dont remember 1080p taking that long to become the norm?

 

Why is 4K so desired but realistically not the best option for the majority?   

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Not for a while.

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I think we can all agree 1080p is the current standard, being the most affordable gaming and general use monitor whilst giving very nice sharp picture quality. 

 

4K is far superior in every way, besides the price to buy and hardware required to run, especially for smooth gaming. 

 

So when will we see 4K being affordable enough that most users will be able to buy and run these monitors how we run most 1080p screens? 

 

Dunno why anybody here feels they can give you any reasonable indication of when this will happen..

 

Based on past developments things become mainstream when they become available at an acceptable price and when the TV industry finally starts pushing out enough content in the format. ATM that is not the case and it might stay like that for a while.

 

There aren't even affordable GPU configs that can run 4K 60Hz on high yet.

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4 years

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When a single GPU can run it properly

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"giving very nice sharp picture quality" I lol'd.

 

Wow people really have no idea about this haha! Intel has already said they are working with monitor manufactures to bring us ips 4k monitors for $400 this year! You can buy a 4k ips monitor for about $600 and its been this price for awhile now, you can also buy a 40" 4k LG, Samsung tv for $700 so i think they are affordable already and we will keep seeing price drops this year. Remember mass 8k panel production starts in 2020 so there going to want to sell for 4k asap.

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I honestly believe that 1440P will be coming into most homes in 2 - 3 years.

4K will be atleast 5 years.

1440p won't because it's not being pushed into the mainstream eye. Ask any regular bloke what 1440p is and they'll scratch their head.

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1440p won't because it's not being pushed into the mainstream eye. Ask any regular bloke what 1440p is and they'll scratch their head.

I suppose...

But, a 4x resolution jump is very big...

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I suppose...

But, a 4x resolution jump is very big...

Right, but it's being pushed as the next big thing in TV resolution.

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That far away?

 

I dont remember 1080p taking that long to become the norm?

 

Why is 4K so desired but realistically not the best option for the majority?   

 

Because you need a good setup to run it at all, let alone well.

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4-5 years is my guess or even more considering 1080p is still the standard for now.

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Why is 4K so desired but realistically not the best option for the majority?   

 

 

-Cameras and memory cards etc struggle to film it easily (and well)

-internet connections are not fast enough to stream it for everyone

-graphics cards cannot render it very easily even on crazy high end set ups

-1080p still looks amazing from normal tv distances

 

and that is just a few big ones

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That far away?

 

I dont remember 1080p taking that long to become the norm?

 

Why is 4K so desired but realistically not the best option for the majority?   

 

It took a long time for 1080p become widely adopted, but it's still not the majority (might be, hard to find current numbers). 

 

I remember developing websites and the most used resolution being 1024*768 and that was in 2010. It wasn't until 2012 when 1366*768 became the majority. As of early 2014, this was still the case, with 1080p coming a distant second. Considering I had my first HD monitor in 2008, this was 6 years before it was a contender.

 

EDIT: Best reliable source I can find that counts up until last month. Not exactly true of desktop monitors, but still. Shows how poorly adopted it is.

 

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I honestly believe that 1440P will be coming into most homes in 2 - 3 years.

4K will be atleast 5 years.

 

Why do you believe 1440p will become a thing? There's no native 1440p content or TV or for any type of mainstream use.  There's more 4k content than 1440p, and the fact that we've already gone to 4k for mass advertising means we've already skipped 1440p as a "standard".

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It'll jump from 1080p to 2160p(4k) . 1440p will stay niche similar to 2880p(5k) in the future

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Why do you believe 1440p will become a thing? There's no native 1440p content or TV or for any type of mainstream use.  There's more 4k content than 1440p, and the fact that we've already gone to 4k for mass advertising means we've already skipped 1440p as a "standard".

I was under the assumption that the OP was talking about monitors.

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