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I agree with you, because I spend more time reading documents, where the higher resolution of a 4k monitor is essential for the nice rendering of the typefaces, than doing things that benefit from a higher frame rate.

Nevertheless, I hope that in a not too distant future there will be affordable high quality 4k >=120 Hz monitors.

Before the transition to LCD monitors, almost 2 decades ago, few CRT monitors were so bad as to not have at least a 90 Hz frame rate. Their better responsivity and rendering of movements were very noticeable in comparison with their LCD successors, even when ignoring the pixel remanence problems of the early LCD monitors.

The transition from CRT to LCD was a great improvement in size, weight, geometric distortions and screen flicker, but it was a visible regression from the point of view of the lower frame rate.

Hopefully, this will be corrected eventually, so that it will be no longer necessary to choose between a 4k resolution and a high enough frame rate.



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