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Those Ks – what is 5K, 8K and 3K?

Alternate facts or hidden value? Remember, the more you can see, the more you can do? Well when HD monitors rolled on the scene that axiom started to catch the imagination of users, and their managers (“gee, do MORE, for just the cost of a monitor, hell yeah”).  The higher the K to dollar ration, the better the deal, monitor ...

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Alternate facts or hidden value? Remember, the more you can see, the more you can do? Well when HD monitors rolled on the scene that axiom started to catch the imagination of users, and their managers (“gee, do MORE, for just the cost of a monitor, hell yeah”).  The higher the K to dollar ration, the better the deal, monitor suppliers are under marketing their products and the value of their monitors. See more do more for less dollars. HD resolution is referred to as “1K” because it is 1080 lines, the consumer electronics market doesn’t worry over much about
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