https://www.yahoo.com/tech/samsungs-...633296669.html
http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/22/s...9-000-dollars/
http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/22/59...rice-announced
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2461254,00.asp
Long ago, when I was young and beautiful, I thought $120K ought to get you a nice pad with 4,000 sq. ft. and a 3-car garage.
More recently, I thought it ought to buy you something with plenty of luxurious features, that pleasant "new car" smell, and well in excess of 400 hp.
Now, at least in this instance, it will only get you an ultra-high-definition (4K) TV!
Uh, no thanks. I believe I'll wait.
Any A/V enthusiasts here? What's the future of stuff like this?
It's my understanding that signal quality from Blu-ray and other sources isn't good enough yet to fully utilize 4K capability. Maybe that will change soon.
In any case, if history is a useful guide, one could reasonably expect that prices for top quality monitors will drop like a stone over the next 5-7 years. I remember when plasma TVs were placed on display (c. 1998) at showrooms like High Fidelity in Dallas. Initially, 42" monitors with poor resolution (by today's standards) were priced at approximately $20,000. Within about five years, you could buy one for one-quarter of that amount. A few years ago, I paid less than $2,000 each for 1080p 65" Panasonic high-def TVs.
But a few people don't mind paying top dollar for the latest and the greatest. In this case, there are probably few takers outside the universe of Silicon Valley tech titans, Gulf State petro-billionaires, and various other "0.001 percenters."
I'm sure the display is quite beautiful, though!
Got a spare $120K lying around in a dresser drawer? You could blow it on one of these!
