One of my monitors has become noticeably discoloured after 10 years of constant use, so I've been keeping my eye out for a new one. However nearly every new monitor I see is 27", and a lot of the rarer 32" ones are only 1440p. To try to quantify my frustration with this, I gathered some basic statistics about the size and resolution of monitors available to buy on OCUK. This isn't a criticism of them, or any retailer, as they can only sell what is available. The fault lies with manufacturers who are unwilling to take the risk of selling anything outside their established safe zone of profit.
I played around a bit trying to visualize the problem, and came up with this chart:
I only included 16:9 monitors otherwise there would be too many variables to show. There are loads of 27" monitors in all three common resolutions, especially 1440p. There are at least a few other of the smaller sizes up to 32" in various resolutions, and a sprinkling of 4k monitors in the larger sizes above 42", but there are two gaping holes: Medium size monitors (the pink area between 32-42") don't exist at all, and neither are there any large high PPI monitors (the yellow area, which would require a resolution above 4k). Something in the orange area where those two overlap would be nice, but I doubt I'll see a monitor like that any time soon.
And that's only looking at size and resoltion. You can bet that anything that might appear in those gaps would be lacking something else important somewhow, or be horrendously overpriced. Anyone else struggle to find an ideal monitor?
I played around a bit trying to visualize the problem, and came up with this chart:
I only included 16:9 monitors otherwise there would be too many variables to show. There are loads of 27" monitors in all three common resolutions, especially 1440p. There are at least a few other of the smaller sizes up to 32" in various resolutions, and a sprinkling of 4k monitors in the larger sizes above 42", but there are two gaping holes: Medium size monitors (the pink area between 32-42") don't exist at all, and neither are there any large high PPI monitors (the yellow area, which would require a resolution above 4k). Something in the orange area where those two overlap would be nice, but I doubt I'll see a monitor like that any time soon.
And that's only looking at size and resoltion. You can bet that anything that might appear in those gaps would be lacking something else important somewhow, or be horrendously overpriced. Anyone else struggle to find an ideal monitor?
I have multiple 24" 1440p TN and IPS monitors but the TN has crap colours and the glow on the IPS bothers me a lot. 27" is too big I sit in close for mouse/kb games.