On 07/07/2019 12:30, James Harris wrote:
> On 07/07/2019 11:20, A. Dumas wrote:
>> James Harris  wrote:
>>> On 06/07/2019 20:59, Pancho wrote:
>>>> Have you considered using a 4k TV as a monitor?
>>>
>>> I have a 4k TV I can try but no computer with 4k output. Why I went into
>>> PC World was in the hope of seeing two things:
>>>
>>> 1. What a 4k desktop was like in practice on different size screens.
>>>
>>> 2. What, if any, curvature would be best.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, as I said, they didn't just lack a /selection/ of options
>>> to view but had no 4k desktop on display whatsoever.
>>
>> I have a 43" or 108 cm 4k tv and tried native resolution from my
>> computer.
>> Despite the large diagonal compared to mainstream computer monitors,
>> still
>> tiny tiny text. Had to sit at about a metre from the screen, and
>> swivel my
>> head up down left right. Not ideal. And scaling rather defeats the
>> purpose,
>> for me (mainly coding, so text). I'll stick to my 27" 2560x1440 on the
>> desktop.
>
> That's what I wondered. Also for programming (and reading and writing
> documentation) I find my current setup limiting. I sit about 80cm from a
> 24" 1920x1200 monitor which I bought in 2008. Whether I use a Raspberry
> Pi or an IA PC an upgrade is due.
>
> Notwithstanding what you said about scaling, in your case couldn't the
> size of the text be increased such that you got more on the screen than
> you do now but it was still comfortable to read? And wouldn't a curved
> screen help? After all, people use two monitors side by side and have to
> turn their heads to do so.
>
>
I was running a TV as a server monitor ...it was awful.
HDMI lag was about 500ms which made using a mouse very hard, and the
writing was way too small. Even selecting Big Text on the desktop configs...



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