Anyone gone from Ultrawide back to 16:9?

[Scottland]

Hi,

I'm a long time ultrawide user, having had the Dell UW3415 since release, and have now that and a BenQ EX3501 as a primary and the dell as a secondary. I do like ultrawide, but I feel the market has stagnated.

I'm looking to potentially switch out to 2 32" screens, waiting for thew new crop of IPS, 120Hz+ 4k screens to release later this year. Just interested to hear from anyone who has switched from Ultrawide back to 16:9 and their thoughts?


Add. I have considered the 38" ultrawide screens but might be a little big. I have also considered some the of the 42/43" screens and again thing they would be too big.

 

[Scottland]

I've been down the UW path and back to 16:9 more than once and I really love UW. Problem is the selection of proper panels is small and way to expensive. A perfect fit for me would be one of the 3840x1600 UWs... but they cost more than a CX Oled which makes NO sense.

It's always annoying loosing that extra width but if it somewhat offset I feel if you get something big like a 32" 16:9 which is what i'm running atm.

To be honest, even a 16:9 32" with decent specs/hdr is going to run ~£1000 - so value for money wise it's a hard sell compared to some of the OLED TV's or even something like the Aorus FV43U.

 

[Scottland]

But if you don't have a super healthy budget and can get by with a "passable" (read perfectly good if you don't go and watch a load of videos comparing with OLED/top end IPS panels) monitor, then you can still get a 16:9 32" 1440p 144Hz for 300 quid rather than 1000.

I’m only looking at 4K 16:9 screens for comparison though, 1440p I’ll be ‘losing’ some screen real estate hence why I’m only looking at 4K.

 

[Scottland]

I use an 48 OLED mainly for console gaming and a 38 for PC gaming. I sometimes use the 48 OLED for pc gaming but find the 4k resolution a bit restrictive sometimes for some games. So best of both worlds here. Had a 43 Monitor and that was just too uncomfortable as a main screen.

Yeah, 43 I feel will be too big although we have a 43" TV in the bedroom I might nick for a bit and try out. 32" at 4K I wonder would it be too small at 100% scaling, at 125% or somthing I think I'd end up with less usable space than an UW at 1440P.