Well, since screen resolutions are increasing again, and "4k" (3840x2160) have already become a fairly common resolution, wait a while and we'll get to 8k and 16k resolution soon enough. With 15360x8640 on a 20 to 30 inch screen, you probably won't notice a slight distortion in scaling where a row in the image has an extra row on the screen.

Frankly I already couldn't care less about this with a 27" screen at full HD. I guess I can spot those malformed lines if I focus or something but it's hardly something that hurts the experience.

Now you're talkin my language. There's one on the market for high end usage that I've found, but it was $30k so is a non-starter. :(

Other than that, I haven't found any other modern 3840x2400 16:10 displays though, so I'll be sticking to 2560x1600 for the foreseeable future until hopefully Dell or someone gets with the program.

Pretty unlikely I'd say, there's no real market for it. With 4k displays the DPI is quite small, and with 5k and 8k even much higher than that, so with scaling and AA et al. at those resolutions + DPI it becomes difficult to discern the difference in theory anyway. Granted, 4k has not yet taken over as the mainstream resolution at use, but I think it is highly likely to do so in less than 5 years time. 8k wont likely become common for another 10 years as our hardware just can't push that many pixels at a high frame rate without extreme cost currently, but time solves all of these problems.

If people really want the effects of analogue displays, the best way to get them is to buy and use an analogue display though. I've got 10 of them in my basement if anyone wants one. :)

Dell has 5k and 8k displays for a while now. The 8k is around $5000 USD, and needs about another $5000 or more worth of expensive GPUs to push it. It'll probably be 15-20 years before we see 16k or higher displays likely, extrapolating existing display history into the future.

I didn't manage to find those when looking at their web store. 4k and 5k have become rather common though (perhaps not quite mainstream, but common enough).

They're probably not available globally. I know several displays Dell sells in North America over time which never were available in the UK for example. Sadly, Dell has modified their website sometime recently and my web browsers and combination of addons are unable to navigate the monitors section of dell.ca so I couldn't dig any up, but Google for "Dell 8k display" should find it.

I think 4k will have enough pixel even to simulate the shadow mask of CRTs...