Am I the only person who wants a monitor that's curved in both axes (left/right and up/down) so I can surround myself with a sphere of monitors, and then pivot on a gimbal?
Apple Vision Pro would probably accomplish this
Using an 8K TV as a Monitor
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Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor
#52I use dual 43" 4k TVs as monitors. It's fantastic.
My wife asked me how much "huge monitors" cost. I told her 100 bucks on Craigslist. Indeed, we got her an old dumb 1080p LCD and she has been super happy with it. It mostly fills the wall of her little cubby hole in our office. For my money, I have 2x 1080p 24” displays, and a third curved 32" 1080p display which is hooked to a KVM so I can game on it. I like the 3 monitor setup because they are all at angles from ea…
1080p is a tiny monitor in today's standards. It's also very similar to the old SXGA resolution that was very common in the late 1990s / 2000s.
Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor
#53Is there a plugin for mac to make tiled windowing easier. All the current ones are a bit too hacky. I really liked tiling in PopOS.
Rectangle is pretty good.
Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor
#54I 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 no OS does this well, and it leads to all sorts of performance issues especially when dealing with view ports. Linux is especially bad.
Having said all that, I absolutely will not be using an 8k tv as a display. I'm currently using a 27" 1440p monitor, and while I could probably handle a 32" 8k display that is the absolute max size I'd tolerate. You start to get into all sorts of issues with viewing distance and angle going larger.
My 27" 1440p is fine for now. I sit far enough away from it that I don't really 'see the pixels' unless I go looking for them. It was also a crazy good deal as it's a 144hz monitor that also has a built in KVM switch that's very useful for WFH.
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#55I upgraded recently, by buying a friends old Samsung Odyssey G9 49" curved monitor off him (he was emigrating). Before that I had 2 x 27" monitors, a setup I had used for ~10 years. I honestly think the curve is essential when dealing with such a wide display. The alternative would be - as article states - to set it back a little and have a deeper desk so you can actually see the edge of the screen properly. I don't…
Why are these monitors sold as "gaming" monitors?
Low response time (i.e. time it takes for a pixel to change color) to reduce ghosting, and a high refresh rate up to 240 Hz.
These monitors are expensive and do not have very high resolution. If you're not a hardcore fast reflex gamer, and you spend a lot of time looking at text, then IMO it's better to buy a higher resolution monitor for less money.
Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor
#5610 years ago it was the 30" Seiki 4K TV
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=seiki+4k
Niche no more.
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#57That'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.
Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor
#58I upgraded recently, by buying a friends old Samsung Odyssey G9 49" curved monitor off him (he was emigrating). Before that I had 2 x 27" monitors, a setup I had used for ~10 years. I honestly think the curve is essential when dealing with such a wide display. The alternative would be - as article states - to set it back a little and have a deeper desk so you can actually see the edge of the screen properly. I don't…
Why are these monitors sold as "gaming" monitors?
I'm guessing because it allows you to set the Field-of-Vision to be pretty wide?
I mostly play simulation games, particularly flying, and having a wider FoV makes things easier, until you're ready to go to the top step of using VR instead so you also get depth perception and essentially 360 FoV since you can rotate your head.
Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor
#59That'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…
> Also, I want to suggest people to learn about virtual desktops rather than wasting money on bizarrely huge screens or multi monitor setups.
If I want to have multiple things open and be able to glance at them at once, how would virtual desktops help with that?
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
My wife asked me how much "huge monitors" cost. I told her 100 bucks on Craigslist. Indeed, we got her an old dumb 1080p LCD and she has been super happy with it. It mostly fills the wall of her little cubby hole in our office. For my money, I have 2x 1080p 24” displays, and a third curved 32" 1080p display which is hooked to a KVM so I can game on it. I like the 3 monitor setup because they are all at angles from ea…
1080p is a tiny monitor in today's standards. It's also very similar to the old SXGA resolution that was very common in the late 1990s / 2000s.
Ahhh....1280x1024 on a 19" LCD in 2001, it felt like a 4K monitor does today.
1600x1200 on a 21" CRT was king. though.