HP 5K Monitor Released at USD 1200

[BenSkywalker]

History has proven many times that technology that is "good enough" and is cheaper will always win.

Not really, no- your use of always is what makes this inaccurate- almost always I'd agree with though

Actually led tvs with 120hz are pretty good for fast motion.

If by 'pretty good' you mean 'OMFG what kind of train wrecked abortion is this' I would absolutely agree. BTW- why did you refer to it as a 'LED'? It's an LCD- or are we going to call OLED "     " because, you know, no backlight? 120HZ TVs use a frame interpolation hack that introduces *MASSIVE* artifacts and blurring- they are shockingly bad- and they only display 60Hz regardless. Mind you, I have a 144Hz monitor- and that helps with movement *a lot*- the 120Hz feature on my TV is *ALWAYS* set to off- it is outright terrible.

LED is pretty good and it is by far the cheapest and the most reliable.

CRTs were actually significantly more reliable, and cheaper at the time, and they lost to LCDs. Not saying OLED will win, but I will point out that economy cars aren't even close to dominating anywhere in either of our markets

I think that most people who believe they suffer from refresh rate issues actually suffer from frame rate issues due to lack of a powerful enough GPU or a powerful enough CPU to consistently push 60fps.

What I am talking about in regards to refresh rate, at least in terms of plasma, is that they are not a constant on display type- they pulse- just like CRTs. If you notice the pulsing, it will likely make you sick to your stomach.

These people will invariably have a single mid-range GPU and an i5 or worse processor (usually an i3 or one of those ridiculous "anniversary pentiums" or an AMD pile of crap) and will argue until they are blue in the face that anything more powerful is a waste.

I'll give you the mid range graphics all day, but an i5 is a problem? I won't say it is a waste outright, I will say you are *WAY* better off taking the extra $100-$200 and getting more GPU power with an i5 then going with an i7 and cutting GPU corners. In any real setting on anything demanding you will *almost* always be GPU limited with a remotely decent i5.