Ahead of the Consumer Electronic Show which will take place this coming January, LG has teased an image and specifications for a monitor it plans to unveil which could make your 27-inch 4K display look like retro tech. The 5K monster measures in at 34-inches diagonally and makes use of the 21:9 form factor which is growing in popularity as people look to replace double monitor setups with one large display.
Technically, however, this display isn't really 5K. It's 5K in the sense that it has more than 5,000 pixels across the horizonal, 5,120 to be exact, with 2,160 on the vertical. That's still an impressive resolution and if you planned to do any sort of gaming on it you'd want a very powerful GPU, probably at least a GTX 1080 or equivalent to really take advantage of it.
Alongside that large resolution it will have a Thunderbolt 3 port, slim bezels and a professional slant with lots of color grading options, as per ArsTechnica.
Joining that new monster display will be a more typical entry in the range, a new 32-inch 4K monitor known as the 32UK950. It too comes with its own Thunderbolt 3 port, which will actually let you hook up a second 4K monitor to it if you wanted to daisy chain rather than plugging them directly into your graphics card. It will have a 98 percent coverage of the DCI-P3 color range and will utilise "Nano IPS" to improve image and color quality.
Both screens will be capable of current-specification HDR technology, delivering richer colors and blacks, though there are competing standards for what that means so you will definitely want to learn a little more about it before throwing your money at your old, dingy monitor.
