Re:The best 4K monitor doesn’t exist yet
by devindotcom on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @03:27PM
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I don't mind playing games in a lower resolution and letting it scale up to the monitor's res - I consider the stretching to 4K a form of "natural" (if sloppy) anti-aliasing.
Re:The best 4K monitor doesn’t exist yet
by potatolicious on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @04:03PM
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Scaling is a problem on a lot of 4K monitors right now. IIRC the Dells will display everything at their native resolution - so a 1080p signal will sit as a box in the center of your screen surrounded by black.
There's a reason why the current batch of 4K monitors are considered immature. The lack of "real" (single-tile) input, the inability to handle 60Hz inputs, the inability to scale, etc etc. Looks like the latest round of model updates solve some of these, but IMO it's not quite time yet.
I have the Asus PB287Q and it scales perfectly to 1080p (and does the 60Hz input, single-tile input), etc, etc. The only downside is the TN panel but it's much better than any TN panel I've ever used.
Please tell us more.
GPU scaling has been a standard driver feature, on Windows at least, with both NVidia and AMD video cards for awhile now. It doesn't really matter what the monitor does.
Re:The best 4K monitor doesn’t exist yet
by devindotcom on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @05:22PM
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Oh yes definitely. Don't worry, I'm not interested in jumping the gun.
I don't really see the problem with these new monitors that are good enough for most people. Good price, the TN panels are quite decent (confirmed by reviews both at The Tech Report (http://techreport.com/review/26510/4k-for-649-asus-pb287q-mo...) and KitGuru (http://www.kitguru.net/peripherals/monitors/zardon/aoc-u2868...).
Yes, you do need the best GPUs in order to take advantage of games in 4K. And yes, OS support is still incomplete. Anyway those trade offs are not that important if you are not a gamer and you can take advantage of that desktop area.
There's always good reasons for waiting. They could lead to never take advantage of improvements: you know, new improvements could be on the horizon when the ones you waited for finally arrive. And the story repeats itself...