On 1/4/2016 11:53 PM, Rich Braun wrote: > What's happening in the graphics-display industry? Suddenly Linux on the > desktop is losing the price competition, for probably the first time ever > since I started using it in 1992.
What happened is that the HDTV manufacturers colluded to artificially inflate prices. Then LG broke ranks and priced displays at reasonable prices which lead to massive price drops across the entire range. So the manufacturers started looking for new products they could overprice. Enter 4K screens. And then LG broke ranks again and started offering 4K screens at reasonable (for 4K panels) prices. My advice at this time is to stay away from 4K and higher resolution displays. Few graphics cards can drive them at their native resolutions and only the most powerful SLI and Crossfire rigs can run 3D applications (games, CAD, etc) at useful frame rates without downscaling. -- Rich P. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
