High resolution monitor price

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So, I've been using this 1920x1080 ASUS monitor for quite some time now. Lately, I've been feeling like upgrading it to something like a 2560x1440 or 2560x1600 monitor, but when I looked around I couldn't find any at all under $800.
So, what I'm asking is if you guys know when either the price will drop down to something more reasonable, or when they will release new monitors with higher resolutions? (and I'm not talking about those Eizo-screens for $20,000 , but the new "generation" of monitors.)

[glo]

None of us have a crystal ball to predict the future. No offense intended, but you're asking an impossible question.

Further, expect a massive FPS hit on resolutions that high compared to your 1080p monitor.

[Milkshake86]

Well depending on your card you may or may not notice the performance. Going over 1920x1080 on 6900 series and 7900 series is not much of an issue at all. Especially when 2 will run in excess of 5k res

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Generally anything over 1080p and then it's starting to be classed as a "professional" grade monitor, expect the prices to raise dramatically.

But to answer you, UHD is meant to get into consumers homes by 2016-2020 (UHD = 7,680 x 4,320). The main problem with this is we just don't have portable storage systems available to carry the data it needs yet.

Uncompressed, a 20 minute broadcast would require roughly 4 TB of storage.

Even compressed that's still going to be a fair few 50gb blu-rays.

Even so, 4 years from now isn't a long time, if they do release the 1440p monitors as standard, they will not last very long in the market, i mean theres still many people that haven't made the jump to 1080p. I wouldn't be suprised if we are stuck with 1080p as standard will UHD finally becomes available.

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Ok, thank you for your quick responses.