TheCapulet, for medical apps you want one of the following, not a consumer colour
display (and anything that's only sRGB-capable is still consumer IMO):
http://www.kikatek.com/P288710/K9601618-BARCO-MDCG-10130-Coronis-Fusion-30
http://www.ampronix.com/content/web/barco_coronis_fusion_10mp.asp
It amuses me that 10bit precision is now regarded as high-end, given 12bits
and even 16bits per channel has existed for nearly 20 years (genuine precision,
not via any kind of dithering), though of course one needs CRTs to convey
that level of fidelity. Nobody makes such things anymore though because it's
horribly expensive to do; in 2002 it needed 10GB VRAM to run such a design
properly for multi-display output with subsample AA, etc., which cost a fortune.
Quality is expensive. Consumer displays will get better as and when the
economics permit.
Yesterday I went hunting for a 2560x1600 display. What models were available
had prices way beyond my budget, so I bought a 1440 model instead which was
about 75% cheaper. It's the same effect which shoved industry production away
from 1200 height displays to 1080, just the economics of purchasing demand.
1080s were cheaper to make, so the rise in demand reinforced the cheapness
ever more. We have affordable IPS panels now because the volumes are migher.
I'm sure we'll have well priced 4K+ OLED (or whatever) displays some day, it
just might take a while.
Ian.
PS. If anyone cares, I settled on the following after reading oodles of reviews,
etc., partly because it supports sync-on-green which I need for my SGIs:
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_u2713hm.htm
It cost the equivalent of about $620 US (price was 407 UKP total).