In the future, I'd kinda like to upgrade to a 4K monitor for clarity reasons once they become affordable and commonly available in smaller sizes, I've currently chosen to refuse to go 1440p at all since I don't want to deal with fractional UI scaling and I don't want the UI to get any smaller than it already is at 1080p (I'm okay with fractional UI scaling on secondary devices like my laptop, but I wouldn't want it on my desktop PC)
Honestly, I feel like HDR's a much more important thing than sheer 4K resolution (for gaming and movies of course), but HDR10 and such is
only really a thing on 4K displays, we have a decent HDR TV in our living room (I'm glad my family split some of the cost though, especially since I'm not the only one who uses it), and while I really love the HDR brightness range and color depth, the sheer number of pixels is completely unnecessary from couch distance, I can barely even tell the difference from 1080P from the distance, I wish there were 1080p HDR displays and especially monitors tbh
Also, even though I mentioned wanting a 4K monitor, I don't care that much about that resolution, I just kinda hate that it's a pain for scaling, honestly I'd definitely prefer fewer pixels so that games are easier to run, especially since I currently have a high-refresh monitor and some games (particularly shooters) feel a decent bit nicer running higher than 60Hz, one nice thing though about 4K is that certain GPUs can actually integer-scale a 1080p image up to it, so you can just straight-up use it like a sharp 1080p monitor if you want to for performance reasons or anything
It seems we now live in a time when "8K" is being given a similar marketing treatment to 4K, except 8K is definitely
faaaar less important, to the point of being honestly complete nonsense for it to exist, because lets face it, nobody can see the pixels on their 4K TVs as it is (unless they sit ridiculously unnaturally close just to prove a point), so 8K is way too far into diminishing returns to make any sense, especially now but even general... I can't see 8K ever being a thing that takes off in the consumer space for TVs and monitors given how much it costs for such little added quality, but I guess I could always be proven wrong
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