Where are the affordable UHD monitors?

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CaptainTom

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So my grandparents are going to get a Kinda FireHDX 8.9" soon. This thing has a 2560x1600 screen for 395 dollars.

If an entire computer with a 1600p screen can cost under $400, where the f*ck are the 23" 1440p monitors for reasonable prices (From the major manufacturers)? Doesn't it cost more to make the resolution smaller until you get to really big screens where material costs add up?

Seriously what is going on. 1440p should be like 720p 10 years ago and 4K what 1080p was...
 
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Blame $100 1080p screens for most of that: most people aren't interested in paying more than the bare minimum so that leaves the rest of the market with much fewer customers to spread their sales and costs on, which means higher prices and seals their status as niche desktop resolutions for the foreseeable future.

Intel wants to make a push for higher desktop resolution but I'm not convinced they will succeed until entertainment becomes readily available in 4k.
 
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I almost wonder if 4K is even worth it. Me and my brother did some calculations and research one day, and we found that 8k would be about the "Resolution" the human eye sees at. So why don't we just skip straight to that?
 
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Also if there are $100 1080p screens, why aren't there $200 1440p screens and $400 4K screens. I KNOW people would be all over that...
 
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4k's still pretty new. its unlikely that itll drop in price because there's absolutely no demand for it much atm. and companies are making their 4k monitors generally starting off with IPS rather than TN panels for the color quality. 1440p is only increasingly becoming popular, but its only budget solution are korean imports
 
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Honestly I don't think I will get any 4K monitor until it is using OLED or something equivalent. Resolution is nice, but I want the color upgrade that should go with it...
 
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The problem is mass production: 1080p 20-24" panels sell by the hundreds of millions of units per year so R&D costs for them are only a few dollars per unit. 1200p and higher ship only a few million units per year per panel model so the R&D costs can be hundreds of dollars per unit.

Until enough software and content start requiring resolutions beyond 1080p to create a market-wide demand shift to 1600p on 24" screens or something else of the sort, most people will choose to keep the extra $100-300 in their pockets instead of buying into resolution they have no foreseeable use for.

I paid $300 for my current 24" 1200p screen back when 1080p screen used to still cost around $240 but most equivalents today would cost over $400. 1080p screens soaked demand away from 1200p, 1080p became cheaper from increased sales while 1200p became more expensive due to falling sales, rinse and repeat with the wider gap making it increasingly difficult to justify paying the premium.

With a ~$300 or ~300% gap between 1080p and 1200p, the only way I could imagine a resolution bump happening before 4k becomes mainstream (if that ever happens) is if manufacturers quit making ~$100 1080p screens (is that actually sustainable?), forcing all future sales to be ~$200 1200p or higher.
 
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Yeah below the total cost. But with just the monitor portion I am sure they could make it for the same price and profit.

I am not saying 4K should be cheap to be fair (I understand supply and demand), but I am saying that if they can make 1 1600p 9" screen for under $500, I see no reason why they cannot put four of the together and sell it for under $2000. Only a Chinese company is doing that...
 
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