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Re:Those budget 27" IPS displays from Korea are for real by pbreit on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @06:34PM (#4293446)
You pay another $300 for the 160 pixels (but I guess they are larger pixels!).

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=2560+1600+ips

But I agree, I much prefer 16:10 and am frustrated they are so much pricier and in shorter supply.

Re:Those budget 27" IPS displays from Korea are for real by rcvassallo on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @11:37PM (#4294292)
Right on. I think the proximity to φ says it all:

φ = 1.618 16:10 = 1.6 16:9 = 1.777

Re:Those budget 27" IPS displays from Korea are for real by Kell on Thursday July 26, 2012 @05:37AM (#4295172)
I'm always amazed by the number of intelligent people who believes in the Golden Ratio Myth. As if some mix between magic and mathematics could explain æsthetics.

You should google : Golden Ratio Myth.

Or if you're lazy : http://goldenratiomyth.weebly.com/index.html http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_05_07.html

(Maybe you were just being ironical and funny... but you know.. Poe's axiom and all. Hard to tell apart what's irony and what's misinformation without a smiley ;-) )

Re:Those budget 27" IPS displays from Korea are for real by rcvassallo on Thursday July 26, 2012 @09:13AM (#4295776)
It was meant to be a little tongue-in-cheek, I like to poke fun at the mystical math connections as well. I will remember the smiley next time :)

I do prefer the 16:10 monitors though. I recently tried to get a warranty replacement on a 16:10 8-bit IPS monitor from dell, but they kept sending me a monitor with a 16:9 6-bit AFRC panel. Seems that everything Dell offers in the 22" range is a 16:9 now :(