Comment by jsheard

5 months ago

It's a cost thing, ultrawide has always been expensive relative to how much extra area you get, and pushing the resolution up compounds that. 5120x2160 (extended 4K) panels do exist but they cost a fortune.

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Kon5ole  5 months ago

But why is it a cost thing? I got a 55 inch 8k tv for less than 1000 usd years ago, including sales tax and overhead from a physical store. It’s the best monitor I’ve used.

Today, many years later, monitors are still way worse and more expensive! Also you can basically not buy the tv’s anymore either.

The panel factories existed, and the panels were cheap, years ago. They’re just not used anymore (or so it seems).

rabf  5 months ago

Dell UltraSharp 40 Curved Thunderbolt™ Hub Monitor - U4025QW

Worth every penny.

  • digitalsushi  5 months ago

    I have a U4025QW and there's a glitch I'm typing here for google to pick up.

    If my macbook (any macbook, perhaps any computer?) is plugged into the U4025QW and the power goes out, the U4025QW won't get the signal from the laptop and will remain blank. There's two ways to 'fix' this:

    The first is to unplug the monitor for a long time, perhaps 2 to 4 hours. Sometimes I'll plug it back in at hour 2 and it wasn't long enough and I'll have to start over.

    The second, and this works reliably, is to unplug the U4025QW, and then also unplug the monitor side of the HDMI cable, and then plug it back in with no signal, and then reinsert the HDMI cable. This gets the U4025QW to receive the signal after as long as the above operation takes, a minute or so.

    I have had two U4025QW units. The first one was overheating and losing the signal as above on its own. I stopped having overheating issues when I stopped using an undersized UPS. I ran it straight into the wall.

    But if there's a power outage (i live in an area with monthly power outages), the signal loss operation is how I restore functionality to the U4025QW.

    I finally got one of those 300 dollar UPS units for the U4025QW and it's been very stable since then.

    A multi variable episode that took me a very long time to reduce. U4025QW is a great monitor but dont give it bad power and it needs a little love after a power blip.

  • adamcharnock  5 months ago

    I’m in the market for new monitors (or maybe only one in this case!)

    A question if you don’t mind - Do you find 4K resolution to be sufficient on a 40” screen?

    Also just eager to hear any others reasons why you like it

    • bpye  5 months ago

      I have the same monitor and think the resolution is fine. I run at 125% scaling, which is close to 2560x1440 at 27”, 100% which is the density I moved from.

  • lloeki  5 months ago

    I have one as well. Indeed worth every penny, although to be fair that's quite a lot of pennies.

skhameneh  5 months ago

And not in OLED, only in VA panels, unfortunately.

I can't justify going high end on a monitor without it being OLED.

  • jsheard  5 months ago

    LG has a 5120x2160 OLED already, but it's 45" so the pixel density isn't great. It's also stupid expensive, about double the cost of a regular 4K OLED for 30% more width. They have 39" and 34" variants on their roadmap though.

    • skhameneh  5 months ago

      True, that is an option I forgot about. I generally don't see it any better than a standard 16:9 OLED given the price and limited (in comparison to 32:9) width though.

      > the pixel density isn't great.

      I got one of the 49" 32:9 OLED and it has 1140 vertical. I'm making due with it and had to tweak settings like crazy to make it tolerable... I'd love a proper 2160 option for the ratio. I came from a 28" 4K TN panel, so it's been a major change of tradeoffs.

      It's hard to justify the higher price on the smaller 45", it makes it a hard sell over a standard 16:9 ratio 4K OLED (although I wonder if that would have been the better choice over what I got).