<story><title>Dell unveils 8K 32-inch monitor at CES 2017</title><url>https://www.extremetech.com/computing/242192-dell-unveils-new-8k-32-inch-monitor-ces-2017-shipping-year</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Sephr</author><text>For $5000, I&amp;#x27;d much rather buy the 4K 120hz HDR 0.1ms response time OLED monitor Dell announced in CES 2016 (the UP3017Q). Unfortunately it seems like it may never come out. Hopefully Dell will try again with microLED in the future.&lt;p&gt;An 8K 60Hz LCD in 32 inches seems like a waste for literally every application I can think of except medical diagnostics (and even then, many doctors might not have the vision to benefit from this over 5K). The only practical uses for 8K are in completely different form factors and using different screen technologies.&lt;p&gt;The sweet spots for every current use case (gaming, content creation &amp;amp; consumption, web browsing, reading, medical diagnostics) that are possible with HDMI 2.1 are probably as follows:&lt;p&gt;Desktop monitor: 27&amp;quot; 5K 165Hz HDR OLED&amp;#x2F;microLED display&lt;p&gt;VR HMD: 2&amp;quot; 4000x4000 165Hz HDR OLED&amp;#x2F;microLED displays per-eye&lt;p&gt;AR HMD: 2&amp;quot; 8000px diameter HDR ???Hz fiber scanning displays[1] per-eye&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gpuofthebrain.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;7&amp;#x2F;22&amp;#x2F;how-magic-leap-will-work&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gpuofthebrain.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;7&amp;#x2F;22&amp;#x2F;how-magic-leap-will...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Dell unveils 8K 32-inch monitor at CES 2017</title><url>https://www.extremetech.com/computing/242192-dell-unveils-new-8k-32-inch-monitor-ces-2017-shipping-year</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wbond</author><text>I feel like 32&amp;quot; at a high PPI is hitting the point of perfection in a display.&lt;p&gt;The 32&amp;quot; size gives a generous amount of space for multiple programs to be visible on the screen at once, without being too large for normal desk usage. Trying to use something like a 47&amp;quot; inch TV results in lots of head movement to scan the entire screen.&lt;p&gt;For anyone who has used a high PPI screen, the smoothness of text and geometric shapes is beautiful.&lt;p&gt;Before this the two compromises were a 32&amp;quot; 4K, which is a normal PPI screen, or a 27&amp;quot; 5K, which doesn&amp;#x27;t have the same real estate for 4-up viewing.&lt;p&gt;Alas, $5k is clearly a steep price filtering out all but the largest hardware budgets. Considering the price of the 32&amp;quot; 4K Dell dropped by 50% over a few years, hopefully these will be sub-$2k by 2019.</text></comment>