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Also known as 4K, Ultra HD is the term most brands now use to describe TVs that carry the next generation of pixel resolution: 3840 x 2160.

If you know your HD onions you’ll realise that these numbers exactly double the 1920 x 1080 resolution of today’s full HD TVs. But this doesn’t just mean you get twice as many pixels; a bit of GCSE Maths will tell you that squeezing 3840 x 2160 pixels into a screen actually delivers four times as many pixels as you get with a full HD screen: a mind-boggling 8,294,400, to be precise.

This predictably has a pretty profound impact on picture quality. The most obvious point is that you can simply see far more detail in Ultra HD pictures than you can in full HD ones. But the much higher level of resolution also delivers smoother colour blends and a greater sense of depth, as details can be resolved further into the distance. Overall the extra pixels in Ultra HD TVs make it feel much more like you’re watching the real world through a window rather than looking at a picture being rendered by a TV screen
 
Once we start seeing these 2nd hand for £500 will be the only time I ever get one. That's the only reason I ever went for a dell 30".
 
spoffle said:
Monitors don't always cost more than TVs, in fact it's typical that monitors actually cost a noticeable amount less.
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Not when you get to 25" and above as the resolutions are usually much higher as well as screen quality as you are expect to sit 1-2 feet away from a monitor where as a TV maybe 6-8 therefore they skimp on the quality a bit.

Nice to see the first 4k monitor which is actually the 4k standard of 3840 pixels × 2160 still wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy out of my price range and I'm sure you are going to need some real horsepower to run games (with all the bells and whistles) at 40-60fps at the type of res!
 
The ultra high res looks nice, but having used a Dell 29" 21:9 monitor going back to 16:9 just seems like a step backwards at any DPI. Now when Dell release a 5120x2160 screen I'll be all over it :D
 
rikky said:
Having said that a 4K 50" TV is available stateside for under a grand ... I don't doubt this is a great panel but it is hell of expensive.
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a 4k tv is generally 30hz

play a pc game on that and suffer horrific screen tearing.

this panel looks brilliant, i cant wait for this technology to become more mainstream!
 
Double check when you get one at ocuk that its one image and not two split over the screen.

the chinese brands are two images that need eyefinity to make one
 
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Samsara said:
im surprised that 2 780s can run games at 60 fps maxed on this monitor :)
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Depends entirely on the game and the definition of maxed out (In game sliders to max or also factoring in the plethora of AA available).

Something like Sleeping Dogs for example would be totally unplayable on GTX780 SLI with the Extreme AA setting enabled. Drop to High AA and the framerate will double.

My single 780 overclocked manages a paltry 20FPS average (9fps minimum....) @ 3600x1920, max settings with Extreme AA. Increase the resolution a bit and assume 180% scaling and you would barely scrape 35FPS average.
 
Diagro said:
Double check when i get one at ocuk that its one image and not two split over the screen.

the chinese brands are two images that need eyefinity to make one
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It's seen as two screens by the computer, you just have to configure it in the AMD/ Nvidia drivers.
 
Well it's only going to have to drive the equivalent of 4 1080p monitors, so not massively taxing for the higher end processors in all but the most modern games.
 
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