Monitors: The Weak Link?

We now have several manufacture that have released cameras that can recoded 4k including a prosumer model from JVC. Recently, graphics card manufacturers began introducing cards that can run the 4k. Now when do we get the monitors that will display the 4k?

This is probably the first time in history that the monitor has lagged behind what we get from video. The highest display I could find was 2k. Why are monitors the weakest link? Price?

 

I believe the bandwidth and data transfer/storage is the true weak link. Where FHD image is ~1MB, QFHD image is almost 4MB. Also you would have to upscale 99% of the images in the web just to be able to see anything from them. A massive amount of people can't watch streamed Full-HD videos because their internet is too slow. If FHD movie is about 5-10GB compressed. That means 4K would be something like 20-40GB. Just moving that one movie to an external storage would take a long time, and you can barely fit it into a dual-layer blu-ray disk.

I just believe FHD is well enough and it's not worth all the negative sides to go 4x that yet. I'd like a big screen too, but anyway.

 

We can't even stream HD yet so 4k would be just a far off dream. Still, there are other methods like blu-ray. But I'm not talking abut tomorrow. Still, several manufacturer had promised to make these monitors available before years end. Remember, all through the 90's TV resolution was well ahead of anything broadcast or video could produce. It wasn't until HD that it began to lag behind.