Looking for new primary display

I'm probably quite far from being a twitch gamer and I think the last multiplayer game I played on a PC was Red Alert 1

I will wait a bit and Philips isn't even in stores yet. It's a pity that the TV-models doesn't come with the same inputs as the monitors. Remote and a tuner would be nice additions and they are much cheaper also. a 4K 40" philips is €579 vs €849 (pre-order) for this monitor currently. Next year should be good for 4K and more GPU power would be nice too. edit: Actually I'm quite good with the GPU power, but I'm really nervous with the 3GB that these have.

 

This new LG display seems fairly interesting.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824025007

Ditches all legacy ports (DVI, D-sub) in favor of HDMI and DP. 4k resolution. But at this point I'm wanting something larger in a 4k monitor. My eyes are getting old and that'd make things hard to read without increasing text size which then has adverse effects on my other monitors. Too bad you can't do independant scaling on monitors rather than one setting for all monitors.

Regards,
SB

 

Dell has also announced two new 4K ips-monitors, 24 and 27 inches $599 and $699.

http://techreport.com/news/27385/dell-latest-4k-displays-bring-ips-goodness-down-to-600

Nice progress and these should come with good factory calibrating. I'd want bigger, but perhaps the 40" I was drooling earlier might be just a tad too big. 32" might be great... 40" would need to be curved.

 

Yeah, I'd be interested in the 40" model. PPI should be relatively similar to my 30" which means I wouldn't have to enable text scaling to make things readable for me. Would love to go higher PPI, but that would mean having to replace ALL of my monitors which I'm not sure I'm ready to do.

Regards,
SB

 

The LG 34UM95 is on sale at Newegg for $800!

 

Newegg has a refurb LG 25" super widescreen 2560 x 1080 IPS monitor for $190.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824005693

They had a 29" super widescreen IPS non-refurb name brand (can't remember) yesterday for $300 but it seems to be gone.

Edit nevermind it's still there. DVI, DP, and 2 HDMI ins. LG brand. Very tempting for so little monies.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824005597&ignorebbr=1

 

A 25" 21:9 display would be too small vertically. The problem with going from old 4:3 to 16:9 and then 21:9 in this case is that you need to go much larger than the previous AR to retain the same vertical. My wife's 27" 16:9 is about the same height as my 34" 21:9.

 

I figured as much. The 29" model for $300 free shipping does seem like a worthy option IMO. I'm on a 23" 16:9 1080p screen, and by my rough calculations a 29" 21:9 screen would be a bit taller and a lot wider. I could easily live with that.

 

I'm guessing this was Windows? I have a retina Mac, OS X works really quite well and text looks lovely at hi-DPI, much easier on my ageing eyes. Running a Win 7 virtual machine on it though, even with fonts scaled to 125% it is just painful. So my next choice for my primary desktop is - skip 4k, or switch to Mac. Maybe Windows 10 will solve this problem.

 

That's the lowest I've seen it, about the same price it was during the best Black Friday period deals.

 

Windows 8 (8.1 ) allready solve it... Windows 7 have never been done for High DPI in mind.

 

Got me a humble Dell U2412M today ... quite pleased with it though. Next panel will probably be a 4K one, but for now I have a 27" and a 24" next to each other and that gives a lot of view

Screen is a bit overkill because I'm finding I'm having to set it to 20/100 brightness for normal programming work, but hey at least it does then also use less power.

Also the built in USB hub is really convenient for me.

Another reason for me to buy it was that very few other screens were height-adjustable, which is something I've found to be incredibly pleasant.

 

Well I got myself a new multipurpose display as well... I previously had a projector, 55" TV and a monitor. I'll probably move the monitor to kitchen and got a 75" 1080p for my living room for a decent price. I already sold my 55" and hopefully someone buys the projector soon. I was supposed to hold on to my previous setup for quite a bit longer, but I somehow grew a bit tired playing around with the cables and the 55" was a bit too small for some of the tasks it had and the projector required darkness, so I figured that I'll consolidate everything to this one display. So far it feels great. I'm viewing it from 3 meters and feel like the resolution is enough. Could still use a few more inches on 2.35:1 movies, but on 16:9 content it's perfect. I think the picture quality is all around pretty good, and I like the second remote controller that came with it, it has a touch pad and motion tracker, so it's a bit like Wii mote and browsing menus is intuitive with it.

Spoiler

The TV-stand is 240 cm wide.

 

Well that bodes well for Win 10 then.

 

Very impressive review for the Philips 40" 3840x2160 monitor:

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/philips_bdm4065uc.htm

There's no ergonomic adjustment, so some variant of an arm coupled to the VESA mount seems like the way to go for true desktop use. Price is bonkers cheap...