Yep. It's the same sad situation as the birth of Winmodems. You can expect to only get the lowest common denominator junk, or to pay a premium for a vastly reduced selection of 'professional' monitors. There was a good XKCD that went something like: "Wow, 1080 lines! That's nearly _twice_ the vertical resolution of my phone!". I mean, it is a golden age if you want a really, really physically large monitor for a low price. If you really care about other specs though, you're out of luck, the wolves have voted with their wallets and you're what's for dinner. On Sat, 2012-01-07 at 11:37 -0500, Gregory Boyce wrote:

The general public has been trained that HD resolutions are the best, and LCD manufacturers get economy of scale by making TVs and monitors at 1080p )

On Jan 7, 2012 11:30 AM, "David Glaser" <dglaser@glaserresearch.net> wrote: I was looking at monitors at WurstBuy and noticed that the maximum vertical resolution is 1080 lines.

I then looked at the sites of the various monitor manufacturers and also noticed that almost all of their offerings has a maximum vertical resolution of 1080 lines. You could get higher resolution but the prices are through the roof.

Can anyone shed some light on the trend?

-David

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