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zedninja

zedninja

zedninja

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Hey, I'm considering buying the Dell SP2309W or the similar Samsung, quite impressed with the specs and I don't mind that the Dell is glossy. I'm just wondering about this slightly odd resolution, will it cause any noticeable issues when watching a film or gaming?
Will fonts look OK? Also, can I not just change the resolution if I experience any problems? :confused:
 
Should be perfectly fine. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't make an LCD Panel that couldn't display things properly.

What you will get is some people saying that you shouldn't get it because they don't like the fact that it has an 'unusual' res, not because it's rubbish.

Everything should work fine, and it's an 'unusual' res, and isn't in your current display options, because your PC doesn't know it exists yet, same as 2560x1600, once you plug it in, your PC would recognise it and let you set the correct res for it.
 
zedninja said:
Hey, I'm considering buying the Dell SP2309W or the similar Samsung, quite impressed with the specs and I don't mind that the Dell is glossy. I'm just wondering about this slightly odd resolution, will it cause any noticeable issues when watching a film or gaming?
Will fonts look OK? Also, can I not just change the resolution if I experience any problems? :confused:
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16:9 is hardly an odd resolution ratio, so in the unlikely event a game had issues you could play in 1920x1080 or something, no problem. But most games, even old ones (though it occasionally means editing a config file), you can set the resolution to whatever you want.
It's a better resolution ratio for films as more screen space is taken up by the film than with a 16:10 ratio screen.
 
Damn, one of my main uses would be watching movies... perhaps not 1080p all of the time but when I do I would like it to look good, would I notice the fact that the films wouldn't scale properly?
 
1080p is 1920 x 1080 and so you will be scaling it horizontally on the screen with the odd resolution. On the other screen it would be a perfect 1:1 match with no scaling needed, and thus the picture would be better.

However, it's 23" - if you sit further than about a foot away you probably wont notice. If you sit more than about 5 feet away you won't notice much difference between DVD and 1080p!
 
Ste said:
1080p is 1920 x 1080 and so you will be scaling it horizontally on the screen with the odd resolution. On the other screen it would be a perfect 1:1 match with no scaling needed, and thus the picture would be better.
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Surely it would scale both ways (but in the right ratio), since it is a 16:9 screen?
But yes I suppose a monitor with a native res of 1920x1080 would theoretically look better, whether in practise you'd actually notice anything is a different matter. See if you can preview the screen before buying it, and if you'll notice. But if you're buying it for films, I'd probably go for a slightly larger screen anyway (24").
 
I think its rubbish if you say 2048x1152 wont scale 1080 content properly. Take scaling the odd dvd resolution of 720x576, you always upscale anyways when you view it on a PC monitor. I don't see a problem there.
 
Found this, which sums it up quite well.
The new 2,048 x 1,152 resolution monitors do introduce their own issues though. Full high-definition video content is presented at a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080, which means that to fill the screen completely, the image would need to be scaled up in resolution. Image scaling could potentially result in reduced image quality and it may have an adverse affect on system performance. As such, a powerful graphics solution would be recommended for such a monitor, especially for those wishing to do some gaming at native resolutions.

Another issue with these new monitors is that a 23-inch 16:9 display is actually smaller overall than a 23-inch 16:10 display. Mind you, it is not a noticeable difference, but it will result in a wider, yet smaller, screen. These two new 23-inch monitors also offer very high pixel-densities, because of their relatively small screen sizes and high resolutions. Such high pixel-densities often results with everything on the display appearing very small, including fonts. For those who are okay with reading tiny fonts, high pixel-densities may not be a problem. For others though, the eye strain of trying to read such tiny fonts can often lead an individual to lowering the screen resolution, resulting in blurry text.
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I don't think playing movies on it is even any sort of problem. 1080p being 'upscaled' to 2048x1152 is the same as 1280x720 movies being upscaled to 1366x768 on a TV and they're of good/decent quality.

I think that's a non-issue personally.
 
kylew said:
I don't think playing movies on it is even any sort of problem. 1080p being 'upscaled' to 2048x1152 is the same as 1280x720 movies being upscaled to 1366x768 on a TV and they're of good/decent quality.

I think that's a non-issue personally.
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True.

Another issue with these new monitors is that a 23-inch 16:9 display is actually smaller overall than a 23-inch 16:10 display. Mind you, it is not a noticeable difference, but it will result in a wider, yet smaller, screen. These two new 23-inch monitors also offer very high pixel-densities, because of their relatively small screen sizes and high resolutions. Such high pixel-densities often results with everything on the display appearing very small, including fonts. For those who are okay with reading tiny fonts, high pixel-densities may not be a problem. For others though, the eye strain of trying to read such tiny fonts can often lead an individual to lowering the screen resolution, resulting in blurry text.
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While there is slightly less screen real estate, there are actually more pixels on that 23" 16:9 monitor than on a 16:10 24" monitor due to the higher resolution.
As for smaller fonts; if that's a concern, you may be interested to hear that Windows 7 has a more advanced method for increasing font size than dpi, which seems to work quite well (i used it for a while because of my room layout).
 
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