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UnknownSouljer
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I'll try to be brief, not something I'm known for - mostly responding because I don't think you got most of my points or perhaps require more clarification.
Technicolor doesn't spend $30k on scientific monitors because it doesn't meet their purposes. If they wanted or needed 120Hz, they'd demand it and manufactuers would build it - if for no other reason than that they could list Technicolor as a part of their client list. And believe me that would matter a lot. Every production house of course wants to also buy into the standards that Technicolor sets, that's better than any form of advertising.
Again to make my point abundantly clear that you seemed to miss: There is no incentive to produce ultra high end gaming monitors because no one (not literally if you're going to be pedantic) buys them. "Enthusiast" or "average person", however you want to define those terms.
Sure. But you missed the forest for the trees. The point is there would be more of these options if people were willing to pay for these options. And there would be more higher speced options if people were willing to pay for them. And they aren't, because again most of the market doesn't buy premium anything, let alone gaming monitors.
I think you've also missed it here. When an organization pays $30k for a monitor and they're about to just go ahead and buy 50 of them to outfit multiple locations or multiple users, you'd better believe that they have incredibly high, incredibly exacting standards on what that monitor does and what it fulfills. If you don't think the medical industry as an example doesn't ask for very particular things in imaging and not only that have incredibly high tolerances that they test, then I'd say you're missing it. These kinds of customers dictate everything, otherwise there isn't a market. That's partially why this stuff costs as much as it does: the market is small, the demands and the tolerances are high. If 120Hz was something they remotely deemed necessary it would have it. But obviously and clearly they don't.
Technicolor doesn't spend $30k on scientific monitors because it doesn't meet their purposes. If they wanted or needed 120Hz, they'd demand it and manufactuers would build it - if for no other reason than that they could list Technicolor as a part of their client list. And believe me that would matter a lot. Every production house of course wants to also buy into the standards that Technicolor sets, that's better than any form of advertising.
Again, as restated even in this post, you can't really ignore them because they're the ones driving the market. Every other component in a computer is used for multiple industries and spaces. CPU's/GPU's/Motherboards whatever is used by everyone - which is why they can demand and drive the prices they do and also produce a much wider level of product stack from low end to incredibly high-end. Only Monitors (and perhaps gaming peripherals) are used by the niche gaming group. And until a much larger percentage of said group actually wants to spend $1k+ for monitors it's going to be slower than molasses for technology to get kicked down to levels that apparently the average consumer/gamer is willing to pay. There isn't a reason for these companies to make a wide product stack as no one is basically buying the top end of it (how many people even on the [H], likely one of the most elite computer building communities has ever owned an X27 as an example? 2? Maybe? Whatever the number the point is these are not units that are flying off the shelves). As it stands its been "possible" for 4k 120Hz displays to exist for 5-6 years and we basically still only have about half a dozen. And people basically don't buy any of those options that are available due to cost (all of the other reasons are still cost, like not being able to afford a fast enough GPU to drive 4k 120Hz).
Again to make my point abundantly clear that you seemed to miss: There is no incentive to produce ultra high end gaming monitors because no one (not literally if you're going to be pedantic) buys them. "Enthusiast" or "average person", however you want to define those terms.