Japan Display Working on 4k Tablet Screen

[jk47_99]

Just give us a phone where the damn battery can get through the day!

 

[icemunk]

It's like the chicken and the egg. This is a good thing. Yes, most people have no need for this, and GPU technology is still catching up, but if you start producing the product, it will force the GPU/CPU manufacturers to step up as well. Keep pushing the limits.

 

[alidan]

^ Agreed. Unless you sit 3 feet from your screen, 1080P is good enough. I want epic contrast ratios that aren't dynamic and so many colours I barf rainbows when playing games please 😀

In 10-15 years, people will joke about how people from the 2000's and 2010's thought 720p and 1080p was "good enough"

I imagine they will joke about how companies wasted their time on screen improvements that were imperceivable to the human eye, but thats just me

You've probably never used a 4K monitor...

Trust me, you notice. Especially going back to a 27" 1080p screen.

With a very keen eye you might be able to notice a small difference with a 4k screen on a 27" monitor over 2k. However, you could get those same results with a 3000 or even a 2500 pixle wide display. At comfortable viewing distances and realistic screen sizes, 2k is pushing the limits for what the human eye can perceive.

The only reason 4k receives so much hype is because that is what manufactures want. Higher resolution is easy to develope and even easier to market. The consumer would be better served with advancements in color quality than increased resolution.

Don't perpetuate the hype.

everytime i make that argument, thumb down... its hard to tell if im just wrong or if people just have no idea what they are talking about and have a constant "more is better" approach.

Yes 4K screens are gorgeous.... on the 80" screen I saw it on. I'd never want to look at a 4K screen that was less than 42". What's the point? I mean damn 1080P on my laptop's 17" screen is almost too small. It's just marketing at this point..

i say it allot, 48 inch is the bare minimum i would take a 4k monitor at. why? because of the ppi, at 24 inches it would be so small that i would have to scale the ui, sure everything would be higher resolution, but if i have to scale the ui because everything is to small, it has VERY little useful applications for me.

If they can build 4k 12 inch panels, where the hell are the 24 inch panels, it should be FAR easier to make desktop monitors with that resolution then tiny screens.

In a tablet 4k is largely a waste, but for a 24" desktop monitor it would make a difference.

Unless.....you like to hold your tablet 1 foot from your face---which no one does---you would never notice the difference between 2k and 4k.

what i want is a tablet with a dvi input or something that can handle a 2560 or 4k on one cable, just so i can use it as a second monitor, granted smaller monitor, but second monitor none the less.

What most of you are skipping over here is that while 4k isn't necessary for a visual standpoint, you reap massive rewards in running native format vs having to always use the processor to scale EVERYTHING. The extra power needed for the screen will ALWAYS be less then the amount of power to re-process a 4k image down to a lower resolution. Not to mention that any type of scaling producing visual artifacts as a pixel can only ever be one color as one time.

scaleing up without any gpu processing can look like hell, but in my experience scaling down can only make it look better.

This whole PPI thing is not very different from the megapixel war on cellphones and point and shoot cameras about 6-10 years ago. And the FPS thing in games these days has some similarities too.

Like the first poster said, there are far too many other variables in making a screen look good to us.

With the current lack of adequate 4K content, wouldn't you be at a disadvantage watching and playing 1080p/1440p content on a 4K screen?

4K on 12", impractical and little more than a gimmick.

no, megapixels are important to some extent. 3mp can do a normal photo size print, 8 can to a full sheet of paper print, and the higher mp you go, when you scale the pictures down, they look better, so long as you you sacrifice quality for size to any major extent, with a point and shoot higher megapixel = higher quality photos after the post processing. not everyone can spend the 2-3 grand to get a camera where you don't need any post work to make a 8-12 mp picture look good.

 

[Vladislaus]

What most of you are skipping over here is that while 4k isn't necessary for a visual standpoint, you reap massive rewards in running native format vs having to always use the processor to scale EVERYTHING. The extra power needed for the screen will ALWAYS be less then the amount of power to re-process a 4k image down to a lower resolution. Not to mention that any type of scaling producing visual artifacts as a pixel can only ever be one color as one time.

You're also skipping one thing. Today most powerful SoCs can downscale a 4K video to 1080p without a hitch. By the time 4K screens are introduced on tablets their SoC won't be able to handle 3D graphics at 4K. Heck a computer with a Intel i7 Extreme and Nvidia GTX Titan struggles to play 3d games at that resolution! How can you expect that a SoC of a tablet to handle that kind of workload in the near future?

 

[hannibal]

4K is good for reading the text from screen, so it is not a pointless from that point of view. But gaming in native 4K... That will take some time untill we are there...

 

[dgingeri]

My 27" QHD (2560X1440) monitor and 720p tablet will do just fine for me for while yet.