Another maddening trend is about 3 years ago I bought a 19201200 display for $325. I thought I'd look to see if higher res was now available. Turns out, the only 19201200 displays are now all over $900. Everything else is 1920*1080.
I.e. display res has gotten 10% worse, not better.
I'd really like about 2000 horizontal lines. I'm tired of blurry text.
Walter, I'm with you, but I think what's going on is preparation for a sea change toward 4K Ultra High-Definition TV and 8K UHDTV. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-definition_televisio... for the news.) These TVs are all multiples of the 1920x1080 areal unit and anything large that isn't will have bad economies of scale.
Okay, fine, give me a retina eInk touch screen tablet like the lid of my RetinaMBP for reading PDFs, and give me a comfy chair and small desk facing a wall-sized, wall-embedded 8K UHDTV monitor (7680 × 4320 = 33.2 megapixels) for software dev.
And maybe by then I'll be writing all my software in D. ;-) (I've been a fan of D for years, but that's a topic for a different thread.)
I.e. display res has gotten 10% worse, not better.
I'd really like about 2000 horizontal lines. I'm tired of blurry text.