e: warsaw posting too fast. this is @dwood
Well you should probably not compare apple with oranges; for obvious reasons TVs have a bigger display area and we stuck at this aspect ratios because they are the golden ratio after all. You also should look more at the back-end of things: The content which will be displayed is surely as important than the display itself. I know in America they are further ahead with HDTV but over here we just barely switched over to it and it is still just picture with 720p which then gets upscaled to 1080p so why should people now buy 4k TVs if there is no standard for it? No console, no BluRay and no TV Channel can output that resolution.
To me, display development has gone into the wrong direction. Everyone just wanted to have a smaller response time (which is just gamer elitism really...), a higher resolution and a bigger screen, the usual "bigger is better" mentality. Why not focus on stuff we all would benefit from for instance pre-calibration so we can all -this sounds very banal- at least see the same picture, which after all, is the point of a display? Why own a huge car with 500bhp if it cannot get you from A to B.
I welcome every new form of technology but if 1440p or 4k means down-scaling my games so my gfx card can handle them, to upscale movies to fit the resolution and Windows not being practical at doing multi-window work on one display, I just don't see the need for it and I wait for the point in time when there will be technology to truly support this.
@warsaw 16:10 supremacy.
On a side note, maybe I am just not experiencing these controversies. My Computer has 1200p, my Laptop has 1080p, TV has 1080p and my smartphone has 720p. Pretty much all standard.
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