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Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by creamyhorror »

DavidAbrams wrote: post #91
martincmartin wrote: post #19

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TV ruins people with 42" screens at only 1080p. Actually, that pixel density is typically too high because they sit so far back. From http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/08/high-definiti... "A survey made some years ago by Bernard Lechner, a television engineer at the former RCA Laboratories, near Princeton, New Jersey, showed that the median eye-to-screen distance in American homes was nine feet. At that dis…

Not to mention that everything people watch on these TVs is compressed to into a mottled pastiche of crap. You're not even getting 720P's worth of resolution on your "1080P" set while watching your 5-mbps "HD".

Exactly, and 98% of people don't care or even notice the difference. It takes experience working with video to know what is actually higher quality and what is overcompressed, bitrate-starved crap.

Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by protomyth »

justincormack wrote: post #96
protomyth wrote: post #45

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you probably won't like some of the suggestions for 4K, one was 4096 x 2048 (2:1).

Possibly with anamorphic lenses though, like wide film.

Can you explain the need for anamorphic lenses?

Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by watmough »

r00fus wrote: post #50
bandy wrote: post #41

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Depending on my task, I may rotate the 1920x1200 screen in front of me 90° to 1200x1920. I find that much more useful for reading large amounts of text and/or code. The underlying OS supports it, the monitor arm this display is mounted on supports it, yet everyone on the job was remarking simultaneously how odd it was and how useful it seemed as they were shoulder-surfing while I picked through a large code-base. A f…

I have two such rotated displays on my work desk side-by-side to get a 21" x 23.5 combined screen. The problem I get is that viewing angle on average displays is pretty week in the vertical angle (great, so nudge it up or down an angle) - but if you put it in portrait mode, this acute viewing angle really hurts - just moving your chair from one part of the desk to another can expose it. Unless you're going with IPS d…

An HP ZR24w is less than $400. If you're looking at a screen for extended periods, then it's worth spending some cash.

This particular monitor is also 1920x1200, which is a pretty good resolution, WUXGA I think, like the big Dell Precision I used to have.

Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by miahi »

r00fus wrote: post #50
bandy wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depending on my task, I may rotate the 1920x1200 screen in front of me 90° to 1200x1920. I find that much more useful for reading large amounts of text and/or code. The underlying OS supports it, the monitor arm this display is mounted on supports it, yet everyone on the job was remarking simultaneously how odd it was and how useful it seemed as they were shoulder-surfing while I picked through a large code-base. A f…

I have two such rotated displays on my work desk side-by-side to get a 21" x 23.5 combined screen. The problem I get is that viewing angle on average displays is pretty week in the vertical angle (great, so nudge it up or down an angle) - but if you put it in portrait mode, this acute viewing angle really hurts - just moving your chair from one part of the desk to another can expose it. Unless you're going with IPS d…

I used a TN display in vertical position for a while and it sucked. If you moved the head just a little sideways the colors completely changed, and after a couple of hours I started to feel nausea. My doctor told me it was because the eyes are seeing different images (each eye saw the display at different angles, and because of the poor vertical view angles the brain received different colors and light and had to compensate - like using polarized 3D glasses). Now I use a combination of vertical + horizontal 16:10 IPS displays and it's way better. I mostly use the vertical one for web browsing and doc reading.

Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by miahi »

protomyth wrote: post #112
justincormack wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Possibly with anamorphic lenses though, like wide film.

Can you explain the need for anamorphic lenses?

If you watch the 2:1 display through an anamorphic lens you can see it stretched as it's a 4:3 one.

Food for thought: can you create a Fresnel anamorphic lens?

Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by kappaknight »

creamyhorror wrote: post #110
slewis wrote: post #59

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Its true you should consider who your users are. But these numbers shouldn't be used to determine what size to make a website. I'd guess most people with 1920x1080 monitors don't maximize their browser.

Really? I always maximise my browser and usually dislike not having windows full-size on my screen. It just gets fiddly otherwise. Also I like leaning back as I surf, and I need a big browser window and 120-150% page scaling for that. Using someone else's computer with a browser that isn't fully maximised irritates me, but I generally only see that on Macs. I don't think it's very common on Windows.

Everyone is different. I know a ton of people who always browse with 80+ tabs open. I find I fall into that weird trap sometimes too. Though because I have iChat and Twitter open, my browser is usually never full screen.

Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by acqq »

jl6 wrote: post #31
beedogs wrote: post #14

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One of the senior managers at a place I worked in 2001 had a 15" 1600x1200 Dell (Inspiron 8000). Now it's nearly, if not completely impossible to find that many pixels in a comparable form factor.

Glad to see the i8k mentioned. I have one, its screen is indeed an incredible thing, and it's still working in tip top condition today. I find tech kit either breaks within weeks or lasts forever.

I still use a notebook from 2002 with 1400x1050 with an IPS screen. Ten years since, I can't find any notebook with an IPS and 4:3 (only tablets, thanks to Apple) and I'd really pay for both features on the notebook with an i5 or an i7 CPU.

I hoped increased demand after iPad's success would make IPS and 4:3 reappear on notebooks .

Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by reirob »

oconnore wrote: post #78
reirob wrote: post #23

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Absolutely agree that the loss of vertical space is frustrating and contra-productive.

Totally off topic: why did you use contra- versus counter-? I have never seen that before.

Sorry for the mistake and thanks for the correction, like this I learned something. English is not my native language, I guess I took the "contra" from German "kontra".

Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by blahedo »

paul9290 wrote: post #92
blahedo wrote: post #89

I am going to be so angry if[0] this makes web devs start designing for grids that have to be 1300px wide to work. I don't fullscreen anything (too wide for the height, and too wide for the font size!), and while the majority of webpages look just fine in a ~600px wide browser window, possibly after right-scrolling to put the content column in the window, rarely does a day go by that I don't have to tear off a tab an…

Responsive design is what all us designers and front end coders should be focused on learning and using. Check out the Starbucks website and manipulate the window size. It automatically changes stylesheets based on window size.

I love it! The Boston Globe website (boston.com) had at one point demoed a similarly responsive front page, but they seem to have switched back to their old annoying format.

Re: 1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

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Post by oconnore »

reirob wrote: post #118
oconnore wrote: post #78

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Totally off topic: why did you use contra- versus counter-? I have never seen that before.

Sorry for the mistake and thanks for the correction, like this I learned something. English is not my native language, I guess I took the "contra" from German "kontra".

I actually don't think it's a mistake. Contra and counter are synonymous, but one is more common (as far as I can tell with brief googling). I learned something too, no need to apologise.
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