Iiyama screens still good?

[Mr Whippy]

Seeing the monitor is the impossible part these days though. No longer can you just buy on trust like you say, cost and brand mean nothing any more.
Unless you are willing to stump up for the Cinema Display or equivalent super-top end models.

4K would be a waste for me I think as the pixels would get too small I'd just be zooming back in to make them bigger again hehe. Pixel density seems about right at 1440p on 27", or the 1600px on 30"... for my needs any way.


Think I might go for a Korean 27" screen and an Iiyama... whichever turns out better I'll get another three of then sell my 24" ones.

Dave

[Baron Greenback]

Just seen a new Dell screen to come out soon! oh so tempting 34” Curved 21:9 Cinema Display , which provides a resolution of 3440 by 1440 pixels! No price yet!

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/dell-u3415w-curved-2...



I just bought a AOC monitor then this came out, dam I would of bought one of those if I knew

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/aoc-u3477pqu-monitor...

good review http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/t/monitors/

[Mr Whippy]

I've not done the sums, but this is just widening a 27" 1440p screen to 34" diagonal isn't it?

So no more vertical height or pixels... that is kinda what I'm after more than anything. Editing 1024px texture sheets is already a pain with 1200px after your task-bar and app bar are added into the mix.


I'd prefer to see more 30" type 1600p screens than these wider ones. Unless everyone has turned to into cats hunting for laterally scurrying creatures, surely some vertical FOV is much needed for gamers too!?

Dave

[Zad]

I suspect curved screens will go the same way as 3D and "4 colour" ones. If the original image isn't photographed or rendered with a curved image plane, then it won't look as good. I'm sure it will look amaaaaaazing to start with, but I imagine it would be a huge pain for CAD or Photoshop.

[V8LM]

Baron Greenback said:

Just seen a new Dell screen to come out soon! oh so tempting 34” Curved 21:9 Cinema Display , which provides a resolution of 3440 by 1440 pixels! No price yet!

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/dell-u3415w-curved-2...



I just bought a AOC monitor then this came out, dam I would of bought one of those if I knew

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/aoc-u3477pqu-monitor...

good review http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/t/monitors/

Just brought back memories from my PhD days when programming for the Evans and Sutherland (the flight-sim display people) ESV 50 Unix workstation. This raster system was designed to replaced the PS390 that was a dumb calligraphic display (think Asteroids). The ESV, using 'Shadowfax' antialisaing, had a effective pixel resolution of 8000 x 8000. This was in the early 90s.

[Oakey]

Samsung have just released a 28" 4k monitor with 1ms response for £450, it has mixed reviews on Amazon. On the one hand I'm tempted for Photoshop stuff, on the other it'd ruin my eyes with the size of menu text, etc

[Mr Whippy]

Zad said:

I suspect curved screens will go the same way as 3D and "4 colour" ones. If the original image isn't photographed or rendered with a curved image plane, then it won't look as good. I'm sure it will look amaaaaaazing to start with, but I imagine it would be a huge pain for CAD or Photoshop.

This is something I never understood with the bendy screens.

In theory it makes sense, but the projection is flat. As you widen your FOV, and this is quite an extreme example, you're just gonna get really horrible distortions at the corners, while the sides will apparently stretch too.

OK on a 16:9 screen or similar it might not be terribly noticeable or that bad, but when you get to these FOV levels it's going to be pretty bad I think.


And for productivity I can't see any major plus points either. I'd rather have more in a forward square kinda arc, than a wide oblong thin one that needed me to move my head left/right more during my processes.
We see more vertical stacking for pure productivity beyond a certain point, than wider and wider stacking.


Dave