Dell Releases 24" 4K Monitor; 28" Model on its Way

[kinggremlin]

I don't see how anyone would be able to use this monitor for anything but gaming. You will go blind trying to use it for anything productive. I owned a 1080p 15" Thinkpad for a couple years, and almost every time someone looked over my shoulder they ask how I could read anything on the screen. I didn't have any problem using it, but my eyes are better than most of the people I know, and even I wouldn't want to go any higher res than that. To maintain the same dpi for 4k, you would need a 30.8" screen.

The comparison to phones doesn't work for 2 main reasons. The most important being that Windows does not scale with resolution like Android does. This is one area where Apple definitely has MS beat, and I don't really like anything from Apple. Windows 8 may handle things better with the metro UI, but the desktop will be useless. The second difference to phones is that you don't (or at least shouldn't be) sitting 6 inches from your monitor. Most people can see things better at 6" than they can 3-4x as far away.

The 28" is intriguing to me though. I have a 27" 1440 monitor now, and don't want anything much bigger on my desk. A 28" might actually be usable.

 

[quilciri]

nice but can we really trust them gunit?

Running a korean 1440p at 108hz right now (potalion with the overlord computer 2b board). Have had it for 9 months now (only had board for 3, though); No issues, and as far as I can tell, pixel perfect. This did require tweaking and opening the monitor to install the board, however.

Overlord Computers (U.S. company) is selling it's own overclockable 1440p monitors for $500 right now. Still requires you to overclock, but is much safer than installing the board yourself (overlord warranties the monitors)

 

[fudoka711]

Well, I know its still expensive (actually less expensive than some of the competition), but at least we're finally seeing high resolutions on 20-30" monitors like we've been asking for years now. I'll be even more excited when the tech is more mature and gpu's catch up.

 

[Bondfc11]

overlord tempest - i read somewhere they are working gsync into their 1440 120hz models.

 

[Jason Dickson]

With the pixel density we'd get with 4k at 24" I think I'll wait for larger displays. I run a 15" display at 2880x1800 on my notebook and the eyestrain from applications that won't scale up is intense.

 

[cats_Paw]

Question, whats the fdiference between higher resolution and anti aliasing past 1080p?

 

[Hashwagon]

I'd rather game with Blu-Ray quality graphics on my 1080p monitor than PS1 like graphics at 4K. Does anyone else agree? We're wasting resources when our current 1080p quality is so far behind.

 

[iceclock]

i think 1080p is more than enought. tho 4k sounds nice.

 

[g-unit1111]

nice but can we really trust them gunit?

Good question, that mainly depends on the seller. Most of the panels from what I'm told come from rejected Apple displays and then they're remounted and sold as these off Korean brands. As long as the seller has a zero dead pixel quality I think they should be OK.

 

[iceclock]

ya but i mean sending back a korean lcd is hard when the manufacturer isnt in america sounds ish.

 

[g-unit1111]

ya but i mean sending back a korean lcd is hard when the manufacturer isnt in america sounds ish.

What I've heard is the companies that sell these monitors to us through eBay and various other retail outlets are the ones who handle the warranties, and they're the ones responsible for replacements.

 

[iceclock]

Thanks I do prefer in store warranties.

 

[Andrew Finnell]

DisplayPort can run this monitor with only one port and one cord.

 

[awesomedude911]

its a big jump, but we need it. I want games to start looking as realistic as life. It would be cool if they could fit one into a 7" Oculus Rift!

 

[iceclock]

Too realistic makes people immigrate the ultra violence in games. There's a limit to we're realism is good and what not

 

[DarkSable]

its a big jump, but we need it. I want games to start looking as realistic as life. It would be cool if they could fit one into a 7" Oculus Rift!

...they already are. You didn't see the articles saying they plan on coming out with a 4k rift the year after they come out with a 1080p one?

Too realistic makes people immigrate the ultra violence in games. There's a limit to we're realism is good and what not

...and our video games aren't already ultra violent? What games have you been playing? 😛
I don't see how having better graphics means the games are going to get more violent.

 

[iceclock]

well people will have the issue of not making the difference between ultra realism and reality. they will confuse it and be lost in it.

not all will but its controversial.

games are violent yes but if theyre violent and very realistic bad combination.

 

[DarkSable]

I disagree that having better looking games is going to impact the people who would get confused between the game and reality - they're likely to anyways, and have been since the DOOM era.

Don't get me wrong, it won't surprise me to see a rash of things blamed on it, but still. In an age when almost every report on the actions of the criminally insane at least mentions the person played video games, if not strongly suggests that's what caused the action...

 

[Bondfc11]

At this point 4k is useless for gamers. Honestly we have to wait for the killer new DP standard to come out to support the proper refresh rates (HDMI? Meh, give me the new display port specs over HDMI 2.0 any day). Even then a true 60hz 4k still will look good, but may suffer blur, stutter, lag depending on the boards making it a meh for gaming. With talk of 8k coming as well the bigger problem is consumers being told the next best thing is coming - spend now and spend later.