I previously worked a company that installed monitors in hospital operating rooms (primarily). We were transmitting video on 4K monitors and we were looking at actual transmissions from one location to another and not just playing a video from a machine to a monitor, so that is my experience with it. We did display photos but more as a screensaver, not as the primary use.
This technology has huge applications in telemedicine because the image is of high enough quality to diagnose disease.
The demos we did with 4K were just beautiful - of course considering the market we had the best of the best.
The company I worked with was very bleeding edge, so we worked with a lot of new monitor and touch screen technology. Of all the fun toys I got to play with when I worked there, the 4K was the clear star. It’s exciting to see it coming to the mass market at such an affordable price. What we were playing with was big bucks; way ahead of what any regular Joe or Jane could purchase.
