@fatsam The industry will *try* to find a way to sell you a 16K monitor eventually, and even a 32K one (if currently-existing capitalism survives long enough) but in practical terms 1080p was good enough for most purposes, 4K is gilding the lilly, and 8K is sticking an IMAX screen in front of your nose.
It's not "hitting the end of Moore's law" bad for the endless progress narrative, but it closes the door in one direction.
@cstross aside from black levels, my current 5-year-old TV is pretty good. 43 in, 4K, 60 HZ. But it's getting old.
I can see the difference between 120 HZ and 60 HZ, usually when panning in fast action in movies.
I can see some minor graininess in text occasionally, at 4K.
Three things that my next/last monitor should give me -- 120hz for 24fps x5 without 3:2 pulldown; much better blacks; and perfect sharpness at 43 in, though I think I'd probably prefer something a little smaller.
@fatsam We're still running on a 2012 Panasonic 1080p TV. It works fine, and I declined to pay extra for a wifi/ethernet board so it's entirely incapable of snooping on us.
I'd buy a 4K display as an upgrade if I could figure out how to get one entirely free of baked-in spyware. (I'd only be using it as an HDMI display for the AppleTV, anyway.)
@cstross just buy any TV or monitor that you like, and never connect it to the internet.
They're making me retest every year at this point. I'm probably a decade away from needing cataract surgery, but they're still making me test -- written and driving -- every single year. It's a massive pain in the butt.
@cstross I mean, it's the most first world of first world problems.
I'm getting old enough that I have started thinking in terms of last purchases. I think I will own one more car. I may only own one more monitor. Etc.
