[lodi]

If your room has the space for it, you can make any monitor or television a "retina" monitor by just placing it on a second desk behind your main desk (or leaving a small gap between the desk and wall and just wall-mounting it). I'm using an LG CX oled tv as a monitor right now using this strategy:

Pro's:

  * solves any PPI issue
  * solves "too big" issues
  * reduced eye strain due to increased focusing distance
  * high end TV's are half the price or cheaper than high end monitors
  * great gaming performance (4K 120Hz adaptive sync HDR10 is common, 8K is coming).  Latency can be comparable to gaming monitors.
  * speakers, monitor, charging stuff, other junk are on second desk leaving first desk uncluttered
  * monitor is vibration isolated.  I bought a separate monitor arm to be able to pivot the screen for coding and I hate wobbly arms.

Cons:

  * takes up more space.  My setup is about 2.5 ikea desks deep (200cm).
  * TV subpixels are not always RGB.  Mine are BGR-White.
  * cost of second desk
  * wife acceptance factor