I've never heard this in any marketing materials for a non 4K native resolution monitor.
Really? You guys are making a big deal over something fairly obvious... at least in the video monitor market. All the hundreds of (old, cheap) EDTV "HD-ready" and 720p LCDs and plasma could take 1080i video, they simply downscaled it to the panel's native resolution. I also work on film sets and virtually any small LCD video monitor that you'd see around the camera receives a 1080p signal but the panels are 480p or 720p.
That said, HP did phrase it in a rather confusing manner. Obviously they're trying people to think about it as a 4K monitor even though it's not. It sounds like it would be a good compromise for 4K video work. I'd sure prefer a Sony Trimaster, Canon or Dolby, but they're a meager $40,000
