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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 hollandheese »

wilsonnb3 wrote: post #163
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

48 inches at 4K is such a low pixel density, are you not bothered by how bad text looks compared to high DPI screens?

It's fine. Not as nice as a retina display but it's exactly the same as a 24" 1080p display (4 of them technically) for text.

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Post by stolsvik »

dllu wrote: post #174

Author here, ask me anything! Apart from programming, one of the motivations for getting the 8K display is to look at lidar point clouds. For example the desktop background in my post is a lidar map of Bernal Hill in San Francisco, which I've here downsampled to only 13006 x 7991 px for your convenience [1]. Admittedly, when I bought it at first, I didn't realize there would be so many random issues, as manufacturers…

A tad surprised that curvature isn't discussed? With such a massive screen, the distance from your eye to the middle of the screen, and eye to the corners, are very different - unless you sit far away. Your eyes thus need to change focus all the time. That's AFAIK why those ultra wide screens are curved - and I find that the more curve they have (smaller radius), the better it is. With such a massive screen, I guess it would be best if it was part of a sphere! (Curved both ways)

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Post by chankstein38 »

AtlasBarfed wrote: post #291
chankstein38 wrote: post #172

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I chuckled at "The 8K display is only $1500 at BestBuy!" the "only" lol I spent $400 on my projector that I use for my main screen and it works great. But when I did that I had previously only bought $200 projectors. So even that was not an "only" for me.

It's an 8k projector? Remember dropping a grand on a 30- inch 2560x1600 on the day and thinking that was the ultimate. I The 40 to 45 inch is the ideal, otherwise screen real estate goes too far in the peripheral vision. The other issue was a lot of really big screen. Real estate is managing lots of Windows. With dual screens you can usually been in Mac's ride of applications more easily than with one cuz when you Ma…

No, I wish! It's 1080 the picture isn't amazing but it works fine and it's 100" on my wall across the room from my couch, so I'm happy. I've toyed with the idea of 4k projectors but they're usually magnitudes more expensive than 1080 projectors!

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Post by chankstein38 »

guerrilla wrote: post #192
chankstein38 wrote: post #172

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I chuckled at "The 8K display is only $1500 at BestBuy!" the "only" lol I spent $400 on my projector that I use for my main screen and it works great. But when I did that I had previously only bought $200 projectors. So even that was not an "only" for me.

Is it a dumb projector?

It is and not very high quality. Sorry I didn't mean to recommend everyone get a projector here or pump projectors. I just enjoy my setup and it was relatively cheap!

It will do screen mirroring though. It has 2 inputs and I use those directly and it doesn't offer apps or anything from what I've seen.

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Post by chankstein38 »

dakiol wrote: post #186
chankstein38 wrote: post #172

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I chuckled at "The 8K display is only $1500 at BestBuy!" the "only" lol I spent $400 on my projector that I use for my main screen and it works great. But when I did that I had previously only bought $200 projectors. So even that was not an "only" for me.

May I ask what projector? I’m thinking about getting one as well

Sorry, this recommendation will probably disappoint, it's from Walmart. It's a Vankyo Performance V700W. I can't necessarily recommend it.

I have a problem with over-shopping for things, such as spending too much of my life researching and frustrated before either never buying, buying above budget, or just impulse buying making the research time wasted. So, if I can instead work with something I can drive to Walmart and spend $300-400 on, I am happy.

It's been fine but it's nothing special. Does the job and the picture is pretty clear when focused properly. It's bright enough and has good color and picture quality for my purposes. It's 100" on my wall across the room from my couch so we use it a lot for gaming and watching videos. For programming stuff it works but can't optimize for space in the IDE by bumping font size down like I would with high DPI monitors.

I'm also on my second one as the first was left on constantly and started to develop dark spots. They were kind of fun to watch as they'd start really bright and then fade but obviously only in hindsight because it made the screen hard to see. The last time I bought it, the price was dropped I think it was <$200. I have had it for about a year and turn it off when I'm not using it and it's holding up a lot better!

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Post by physhster »

sam1r wrote: post #385
physhster wrote: post #142

Ultrawide 5K2K is a great sweet spot, at least for what I do, which includes a bit of everything. I never liked dual monitors with a split in the middle. Ultrawides solve that.

Which brands/model consist of your setup? Did this turn out to be more affordable or less than expected. Thanks upfront.

I have a 34" from LG, but I absolutely CANNOT recommend the brand. It's been unreliable, and is currently being repaired after the panel died on me. However, when it worked, it was an absolute game changer.

I have a feeling they might not be able to repair it, in which case I am getting a Lenovo P40w-20 which is currently on sale for $1099 at Walmart for some reason.

But yeah, we're talking $1k+, if you want both high-resolution (5K) and ultrawide. If you're ok with good old 16:10 aspect ratio, then a 5K monitor is much more affordable.

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Post by yencabulator »

SoftTalker wrote: post #352
satvikpendem wrote: post #238

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Any good deep desks that you've found so far?

Go to a used furniture store and pick up an old school executive desk. Those are huge.

But very, very heavy. I have a huge desk upstairs that came with the house and will be staying with the house when we sell it...

Meanwhile, my 60"x30" motorized sit/stand desk is on wheels.

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Post by alluro2 »

rob74 wrote: post #410
cm2187 wrote: post #390

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I am using a 43 inch 4k monitor so I am allin on big screen real estate. But I find that even with a quarter of your screen area, I struggle to read the corners of the screen, the bottom is often obstructed by whatever is lying on my desk, and I had to make the mouse cursor bigger as I kept losing it. I doubt that an even bigger screen would be practical. I do have two 43in monitors side by side but the other one is…

32" being (IMHO) too small and 43" too large, I have invested in a rare (and relatively expensive) 38" 4K monitor (Asus/ROG Swift PG38UQ, ~1000€ when I bought it, hasn't gone down much since), and until now I can only say good things about it. It's big enough to use without scaling (except for a few websites with tiny font size), but small enough so you can have a reasonable distance between the bottom and the desk a…

Spouse tolerance issues are a significant factor - I have 2 x 32" and my spouse got used to it only after grudging about it for about a year :) If I brought a 43" one, I'm afraid a new apartment with a separate work room would have to come too.

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Post by runeks »

dllu wrote: post #174

Author here, ask me anything! Apart from programming, one of the motivations for getting the 8K display is to look at lidar point clouds. For example the desktop background in my post is a lidar map of Bernal Hill in San Francisco, which I've here downsampled to only 13006 x 7991 px for your convenience [1]. Admittedly, when I bought it at first, I didn't realize there would be so many random issues, as manufacturers…

I tried this a couple of years ago and had to ditch the TV because of too much input lag.

You mention input lag only once where you say:

> Although this post is mostly focused on productivity, most if not all 8K TVs can be run in 4K at 120 Hz. Modern TVs have decent input lag in the ballpark of 10 ms and may support FreeSync.

Have you measure this, or where do you get this number from?

The TV I bought was also advertised as low-latency, but I found it too high in practice (when typing in code, or scrolling, and waiting for the screen to update).

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