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Dell Leaks Details of a 24” UHD 4K (3840x2160) Monitor

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Re: Dell Leaks Details of a 24” UHD 4K (3840x2160) Monitor

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Post by crististm »

hyperbovine wrote: post #20
sillysaurus2 wrote: post #16

Watch out for problems with the monitor. New ultra-high-def monitors often have problems such as lag or poor color accuracy. Before buying this, you need to wait until a professional with a colorimeter and a lagmeter evaluates this monitor if you remotely care about color accuracy or gaming. Resolution isn't the only consideration when buying a new monitor.

> Resolution isn't the only consideration when buying a new monitor. Sure it is! Reading on a monitor is pure torture ever since I bought a Retina MBP. If this is anywhere close to being affordable (realistically: no) I'd buy it for that reason alone.

How long would you stand a retina display that has only has 10% of the contrast of your current monitor?

Re: Dell Leaks Details of a 24” UHD 4K (3840x2160) Monitor

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Post by crististm »

derefr wrote: post #35
JoshTriplett wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> Resolution isn't the only consideration when buying a new monitor. > Sure it is! So you'd be fine with a 3840x2160 monitor that has a 5Hz refresh rate? Or one with a 500ms lag time? Or one that only displayed in grayscale, or in 8-bit color? Resolution is perhaps the most important consideration, but by no means the only one.

Yes. Actually, I'd be excited about a UHD e-ink display (which is basically what you're describing.) It'd be perfect as a second monitor to throw documents up on to read at my desk, while I kept the primary for more interactive stuff.

So it needs to be UHD _and_ e_ink. There goes the "UHD is everything I need" argument

Re: Dell Leaks Details of a 24” UHD 4K (3840x2160) Monitor

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Post by stinos »

shitlord wrote: post #53

I really wish companies would stop selling monitors with their logo placed obnoxiously on the front. I don't care if they put the logo on any other part of the display, but why do they have to ruin the front of it? I really love looking at plain black slabs, with nothing to distract me from the content within. I want to buy a couple of monitors and mount them. But there's just one small thing stopping me. I don't kno…

Just paint the logo black. Or as close as you can get to the rest of the front's color. I'm doing this on all my Dells (using a paint marker), including a dot over the light of the power button.

Re: Dell Leaks Details of a 24” UHD 4K (3840x2160) Monitor

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Post by agilebyte »

icecreampain wrote: post #57

I've been looking at a higher resolution monitor than my 30" Dell and found that there are these things called "TVs" that apparently have 4K resolution but in 55" format. I'm after screen real estate and want to see a lot of code at the same time. Does anyone have any thoughts about replacing my 30" work monitor with a 55" TV with a lot more resolution?

Although not 55", a post above refers to: http://tiamat.tsotech.com/seiki-4k

It seems like if you do not do gaming, you should be fine.

Re: Dell Leaks Details of a 24” UHD 4K (3840x2160) Monitor

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Post by MaulingMonkey »

ajasmin wrote: post #59
sillysaurus2 wrote: post #16

Watch out for problems with the monitor. New ultra-high-def monitors often have problems such as lag or poor color accuracy. Before buying this, you need to wait until a professional with a colorimeter and a lagmeter evaluates this monitor if you remotely care about color accuracy or gaming. Resolution isn't the only consideration when buying a new monitor.

> if you remotely care about color accuracy or gaming Lots of hackers only care about having enough pixels to legibly represent characters in their tiny coding font.

Finally, a resolution that will let me fit enough text on the screen when combined with http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/homepage2006/tinyfont/ !

Re: Dell Leaks Details of a 24” UHD 4K (3840x2160) Monitor

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Post by Leynos »

simoncion wrote: post #37
jfb wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Err ... color resolution was never really the problem with CRT technology.

Yeah. I hope that I'll live to see non-CRT consumer displays with actual 5->10 ms response times and real blacks, but I'm not too optimistic.

An OLED screen will deliver that (pure black and sub-ms response time). And they are on sale now as televisions (albeit at scary prices along the lines of US$13000 for a 55" screen). 4k OLED screens with a 55" diagonal have also been demonstrated. From the sounds of things, new manufacturing techniques are being developed that will bring the prices down to sensible levels.

Here's a review of one of the screens currently on the market: http://www.digitalversus.com/tv-television/lg-55ea980w-p1619...

Strangely, the first few OLED TVs at size have been concave (presumably more "because they can be" rather than because they need to be). Flat screens are also hitting the market now: http://www.oled-info.com/oled_devices/tv

Re: Dell Leaks Details of a 24” UHD 4K (3840x2160) Monitor

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Post by AYBABTME »

MaulingMonkey wrote: post #65
ajasmin wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> if you remotely care about color accuracy or gaming Lots of hackers only care about having enough pixels to legibly represent characters in their tiny coding font.

Finally, a resolution that will let me fit enough text on the screen when combined with http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/homepage2006/tinyfont/ !

Would appreciate if someone can post a screenshot, or an equivalent that doesn't require enabling Java.

Re: Dell Leaks Details of a 24” UHD 4K (3840x2160) Monitor

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Post by kayoone »

chucknelson wrote: post #2

I'm left wondering how long until we have mainstream video cards capable of driving games at these resolutions? Seems like we're a ways off...

that what GPU vendors have been waiting for, as with the current Full HD max resolutions there wasnt really a need to upgrade in the last few years.

Re: Dell Leaks Details of a 24” UHD 4K (3840x2160) Monitor

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Post by MaulingMonkey »

AYBABTME wrote: post #67
MaulingMonkey wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Finally, a resolution that will let me fit enough text on the screen when combined with http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/homepage2006/tinyfont/ !

Would appreciate if someone can post a screenshot, or an equivalent that doesn't require enabling Java.

Certainly: http://a.fsdn.com/sd/firehose/017/546/952-1.png

Re: Dell Leaks Details of a 24” UHD 4K (3840x2160) Monitor

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Post by lemming »

jfb wrote: post #30
solox3 wrote: post #21

I have recently gotten a taste of ultra high resolution monitors. My coworker got the new Dell XPS 15, which has a QHD+ 3200x1800 screen. Just a heads up to coders, unless you plan to hunch your back or get new glasses, very few of you will enjoy the screen as much as you think you would.

I've been living on a Retina MBP, which has a comparably 4x resolution, and I've come to exactly the opposite conclusion: if you work with text, you need a super-dense screen ASAP. I don't know how Windows handles it, but in OS X, "Retina" support means that e.g. my Emacs windows look amazing -- even as Java-garbage like Intelli-J look like some sort of Motif abomination.

Um, what? IntelliJ has supported HiDPI since about a month after the Retina MBPs shipped. It looks great.
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