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disolitude said:
Demensha said:

Side note anyone pick up that 4k 39" monitor from sears for Black Friday @ sub 500$? If so how is it?


A friend of mine that works at TigerDirect got it. The Seiki 39 inch... 

His summary is as follows:

- As a TV for watching, its meh unless you watch 4K content

- As a gaming display its unusable cause it doesn't 4K at 30Hz

- As a PC monitor for desktop and productivity its awesome. Lots of screen realestate...

It was still going for $499 on Amazon last week. 

My ears perked up when talk of sub $1000 4k displays came about, but after researching the limitations listed above, about the only thing I'd be able to use it for is editing 4k video as a computer display. 

I suppose it would be pretty useful for production apps in terms of the amount of menus and windows one could have open in Maya or Premier or After Effects. And even in Photoshop, it would mean a lot less zooming.

I think I just nearly convinced myself to buy one.