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Comment by bsimpson

1 day ago

Blows my minded that a 4k 27" monitor that was $500 a dozen years ago is still near top tier now.

5k has been surprisingly stagnant.

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shantara  17 hours ago

There were several promising 5K 27” MiniLED displays announced at CES a few days ago. People speculate that LG has produced the panel for the upcoming Apple Display refresh, but is also making it available for the other display manufacturers.

SoftTalker  1 day ago

At some point additional resolution is a dimishing return. The human eye has limits.

  • robotresearcher  1 day ago

    5K 27” looks usefully better than 4K 27” to my middle aged eyes.

    I’d prefer that to not be so, because 5K panels are so much more expensive. But in a side by side comparison it’s very obvious.

    But the market has spoken: a quality 4K display is very good, certainly good enough, and the value for money is great.

    I’m ok with spending more on a better display that I spend so much time with. The cost per use-hour is still very, very low.

    • necovek  12 hours ago

      Agreed. I tried 24k 4k screen as soon as they came out (required two DP cables to run at 60Hz at the time), and turning subpixel rendering off, I could see jagged edges on fonts from normal sitting position (I am shortsighted, but at -3.25 I always need correction anyway, which brings my eyesight to better than 20/20). At 27" or 32", DPI is even worse.

      And MacOS has removed support for subpixel rendering because "retina", though I only use it when forced (work).

  • necovek  12 hours ago

    It's not just that: bandwidth needed to drive things above 4k or 5k is already over the limits of HDMI 2.0 (and 2.1 without all the extensions). DisplayPort is a bit better with 1.4 already having enough bandwidth for 8k30Hz or 4k at 120Hz or 8k60Hz with DSC.

    When considering a single-cable solution like Thunderbolt or USB-C with DP altmode, if you are not going with TB5, you will either use all bandwidth for video with only USB2.0 HID interfaces, or halve the video bandwidth to keep 2 signal lanes for USB 3.x.

    (I am currently trying to figure out how can I run my X1 Carbon gen 13 with my 8k TV from Linux without an eGPU, so deep in the trenches of color spaces, EDID tables and such as I only got it to put out 6k to the TV :/)