The best 4K monitor doesn’t exist yet

Re:The best 4K monitor doesn’t exist yet by devindotcom on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @03:27PM (#7906444)

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.

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Re:The best 4K monitor doesn’t exist yet by potatolicious on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @04:03PM (#7906651)

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.

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Re:The best 4K monitor doesn’t exist yet by ariwilson on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @04:17PM (#7906744)

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.

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Re:The best 4K monitor doesn’t exist yet by sitkack on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @06:19PM (#7907390)

Please tell us more.

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Re:The best 4K monitor doesn’t exist yet by neckro23 on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @06:17PM (#7907377)

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.

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Re:The best 4K monitor doesn’t exist yet by devindotcom on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @05:22PM (#7907082)

Oh yes definitely. Don't worry, I'm not interested in jumping the gun.

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