skit75 :
somebodyspecial :
TV's and monitors are two different things skit75. Tv's are being sold quite at bit already at 4K, and that will grow FAR faster than any steam survey will show for monitors which pretty much requires 2+ top gpus in your machine. I'll buy a 4K tv long before a 4K monitor just because of the card costs.
That data also contains web usage, not just Steam. Are the 4k TV's not "smart"? They don't have web apps like Hulu, Amazon Prime and Netflix built in? Just about every Blu-Ray Disc player, console and TV has this.
I was talking about steam survey data which covers users coming to Valve's site. It's PC data and what we use to access their site (IE, monitors and pc components). I didn't say anything about Tv's being smart or not, or them missing apps that run streaming vids. I agree the all newer TV's include all those apps now, which is why they will take off first as I noted and why I'll buy one of them probably long before buying a 4K monitor which takes two cards or more to run effectively in almost all cases if amping up the details. You don't have to spend $1000-2000 on vid cards to run 4k on your TV. You just buy a 4K TV and wait for content to consume. Again, this is why I'll buy a TV first.
Also I don't know many people using their Tv to browse (not that you can't do it, just far worse than on a PC etc).
Steam data doesn't care about netflix, amazon or hulu so I don't get your point. It cares about what you access steam client with. But my point is, 90% of the public will buy a 4K TV long before a 4K monitor as shown by steam already with 98% of us using a res of 1920x1200 or below still today and most of the people in the 2% above this are using multiple cards which their steam data also shows. TV's are smart and come with apps, what's your point? I'm in those apps every day on my bluray, roku or tv. What does that have to do with TV's and monitors being totally different animals in how they're used 90% of the time with 4K stuff? You watch content on TV's, and usually play games with vid cards that would be required to push a 4K monitor. Just as 1440p is a niche right now (mostly due to needing multiple cards to really push them), 4K will be even slower to adopt without some huge increase in perf on discrete gpus. Maybe @14nm this will be doable in a single chip card, but even then not a lot I think. I definitely don't think 20nm will do much more than bring 1440/1600p into reality which today even on 780ti can bring the pc to it's knees and be well under 30fps maxed out.