People with more money than me: kindly buy lots of these so that further generations are developed and costs come down ASAP.<p>I am sick of having to choose between screen estate and PPI. Give me my unicorn.
Somehow, we grew content with 1080p television. I'm not sure why, the ($20-80k) 4K televisions that I've seen are substantially more impressive than the 1080p counterparts, even at 12 feet away.<p>Resolution really stalled out on the larger screens, until people realized how nice 'retina' is on the screens that they keep 1 foot away from their face. Smartphones are finally starting to hit resolutions that match the upper limits of the human eye, and people are finally starting to want that on larger screens.<p>I imagine that once monitors have started to max out the human eye, there's going to be a much larger push for higher resolution TVs. I'm still surprised that TV resolution stalled out for so long, but I think that 4K TV will be the future (eventually). The eye is good enough to see that many pixels.
If you really want to use that resolution fully, then you need a much bigger screen to take advantage of it, otherwise everything will be too small.<p>If you want to benefit from the "retina" type of sharpness, then Windows should really show it at an effective 1080p resolution, and Windows sucks at doing that. It only enlarges some icons, and that's about it.
Sounds great, I also like Retina, but lackings of current HDMI standard are equally discouraging as a 3D session with Samsung monitor against Samsung glasses nowadays. At least until the make it work out of the box, and compatible.<p>BTW Is there any indication that next HDMI standard will be able to standardize both 4K _and_ 3D, while keeping performance above 60fps?