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Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by jwells89 »

bdcravens wrote: post #100

> The bezels and gaps in between the monitors introduce distractions and one is limited in how one may arrange terminals and windows across multiple displays. To me, the segmentation is a feature. It lets me offload information density and focus. For example, I commonly have an editor on one screen, a browser on the second, and something like a chat app, terminal, etc on the laptop screen.

Same. This utility is also multiplied by having a separate set of virtual desktops on each display, which lets one create sets of windows/apps that can be mix-matched between screens, reducing the amount of window-shuffling to almost nothing after initial setup.

This is only possible under macOS and Linux, unfortunately. On Windows virtual desktops are still kind of a weird hack that spans one desktop across all monitors.

Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by jrflowers »

dingnuts wrote: post #124
jrflowers wrote: post #114

I love this blog post. “It can display seven equally spaced vertical columns of text (critical importance), has driver issues (minimal importance), wake issues (who cares), it costs as much as four smaller monitors (this is good), I need a huge desk (hell yeah), there are multiple image quality issues (well it’s not like I have to look at it all day)…” It is like “I spent fifteen hundred dollars on a multitude of has…

yeah but I kind of get it..

Absolutely. I remember watching Swordfish and wanting Stanley’s setup

Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by cerved »

bhouston wrote: post #116

I use a 48" OLED with my MacBook Air M3 and for me that is a near ultimate web development experience both on desktop and when travelling: https://bsky.app/profile/benhouston3d.bsky.social/post/3l7li... I mentioned this here on Hacker News just yesterday, but most respondents were appalled that it was only a 4K monitor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41988340

Same. I used to have a 56" OLED but it was a tad large. 48 is perfect. The hardest part was buying a good desk mount.

It doesn't work great with an all white screen but I use dark mode for most things

Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by throwaway48476 »

jrflowers wrote: post #114

I love this blog post. “It can display seven equally spaced vertical columns of text (critical importance), has driver issues (minimal importance), wake issues (who cares), it costs as much as four smaller monitors (this is good), I need a huge desk (hell yeah), there are multiple image quality issues (well it’s not like I have to look at it all day)…” It is like “I spent fifteen hundred dollars on a multitude of has…

Once you no longer see pixels you'll never want to go back.

Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by 8338550bff96 »

dmd wrote: post #112
bdcravens wrote: post #100

> The bezels and gaps in between the monitors introduce distractions and one is limited in how one may arrange terminals and windows across multiple displays. To me, the segmentation is a feature. It lets me offload information density and focus. For example, I commonly have an editor on one screen, a browser on the second, and something like a chat app, terminal, etc on the laptop screen.

Nobody's stopping you from segmenting one big monitor into different regions; and you get to choose how big those regions are from day to day rather than being forced into it.

I am (҂`_´)

Continuously micro-manage the layout of individual application windows your window manager is a form of procrastination.

Back to work!

Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by cerved »

leptons wrote: post #57
0points wrote: post #9

That's simply too big a screen to be sitting right in front of. I do agree on the basic idea of not running two monitors tho. I used to, and I got neck pains eventually. My current setup is a single 32" curved QHD monitor and I wouldn't change it for the world. It's just the right size so you can see the whole screen at once, yet large enough to run 3 browsers side by side. Also, I want to suggest people to learn abo…

55" is not too big. Maybe it's too big for you , but I've been using three 32" 4k screens in portrait for many years, combined they are essentially about the size of a 55" screen. I love it and anything less kind of sucks. No, virtual desktops are no substitute for having more screen size. I use virtual desktops on my massive screen(s) and I love that too.

55" was fine but I'm happy I downsized to 48"

Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by jsheard »

jerf wrote: post #115
lostlogin wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The issue with the text rendering would frustrate me a lot. And if the solution is to sit further away, why not just get a smaller screen and sit closer?

I believe the discussion about text rendering is referring only to a line of very cheap TVs that do not in fact have RGB pixels. They have half RG and half GB. For "normal" video content, this is a surprisingly low quality drop. For high-contrast text it's total murder. You can see the stippling pattern as clear as day and it can easily render 8-10pt text literally illegible. IT once accidentally bought such a TV and…

> I believe the discussion about text rendering is referring only to a line of very cheap TVs that do not in fact have RGB pixels.

It also comes up with very expensive OLED monitors, which do usually have true RGB or WRGB pixels, but their subpixels are usually not arranged in the standard horizontal RGB stripe which breaks most implementations of subpixel font rendering. With a sufficiently high pixel density it doesn't matter, but with the ~108ppi of a 27" 1440p OLED monitor the text rendering can be quite visibly worse than a 27" 1440p LCD.

Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by RecycledEle »

I am using a pair of 43", 4k TVs. The 2x43" configuration has been my working setup for about a decade. I love it.

Anything bigger than 43" diagonal causes neck pain because it is too tall.

I understand three 32" TVs also work.

Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by zokier »

wing-_-nuts wrote: post #54

I am excited for 8k monitors in the future, because they give you a lot more options for integer scaling than current 4k displays. I know this a nerdish hill to die on, but I hate fractional scaling with the blazing fury of a thousand suns. To get a 1440p sized UI on a 27" 4k display, you can't just divide by 1.5x the OS has to 3x/2 for every frame. OS X does this best as they've had retina displays for a while, but…

That's why we have so-called 5k monitors in 27" size class? Being exactly 2x pixel density of conventional 1440p
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