UHD/4K is the future

Is UHD/4K the future? Of course it is. And that means it is not the present.

UHD has been around for at least five years. The main stream computer monitor market has changed a lot during this time. For example, 21:9 ultrawide has become “a thing”. It is very popular in the gaming community. Nowadays if a gamer upgrades his/her monitor, the hard choice is usually between ultrawide and 2.5K/G-Sync/144Hz. It even has its own master race. I bought one specifically for gaming, and it has served me well.

On the other hand, low-end 1080p monitors are now “legacy” products. Two years ago I bought an Acer 1080p 60Hz monitor, with sRGB coverage and good overall performance. It was $100. Now you can get similar products with ~$60. It seems to me that the low-end market has been “low” enough, that some of the high-end (read: UHD) products should have creeped into the main stream by now. So I looked online, and realized: not quite.

Usually a UHD monitor is at least $500. Of course it may not be a large sum if you consider the fact that high-end 1080p monitors can go above...