Soldato
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- 6 Sep 2005
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Hi everyone
With the slew of new monitors coming on to the market and a lot of our monitors now wheezing I was thinking about the benefits of moving to a 4K monster, but the more I read about it the more I'm doubting it...am I missing a trick?
We (the missus and I) do a lot of Photoshop and video editing work (nothing 4K as yet, but I don't want to be behind the curve when we are inevitably asked about it).
Our main monitors are currently:
Dell 2405 24” (with a dodgy indented power button :/)
Dell 2407 24”(with a dodgy spinning power button)
Dell 2709 27” (working fine at the moment, fingers crossed)
We bought the monitors at the time because of their even back lighting and accurate colour reproduction which has been invaluable when editing and printing. All of our colour correcting before printing is displayed on the 2709 which is a bit of a pain as it slows down the process having to check it all on just one monitor.
When not working we like to game as well and the thoughts of 4K gaming goodness seem appealing, our current highest PC is:
i7 3770K
Gigabyte Z77X-D3H
32GB DDR3
Geforce GTX 670
Windows 7 64bit
The more I read about 4K the more problems I seem to see with it and I'm not sure of it's potential yet, or if we (everyone but the hardware manufacturers) are ready for it.
I'm pretty sure that my PC won't run 4K at anywhere near reasonable frame rates with full graphical effects, I think a major upgrade would be needed....?
I've read that Windows 7 isn't built to handle those resolutions and doesn't work well at them because everything is too small. Windows 8 is fine, but with a major release of Windows 9...er...10, on the horizon who wants to change OS now.
UHD (3840x2160) seems to have been the resolution adopted by the market for monitors and TVs at the moment, but cinematic 4K is running at 4096x2160, so are we going to be getting films released in resolutions that the current screens can't support properly? The only monitor I can see on OCUK (and they seem to have a much wider range of 4K than the competition) is an LG which runs at true cinematic 4K.
So...
Games need a big upgrade to run
W7 OS can't display it properly
The monitors and TV's aren't running full 4K resolution.
I haven't even got as far as looking how good the screens are in comparison to what I use as far as colour accuracy and even lighting are concerned, I would hope that they blow my older monitors out of the water!
So tell me OCUK, what's the big benefit to 4K because at the moment I'm not really seeing it.
With the slew of new monitors coming on to the market and a lot of our monitors now wheezing I was thinking about the benefits of moving to a 4K monster, but the more I read about it the more I'm doubting it...am I missing a trick?
We (the missus and I) do a lot of Photoshop and video editing work (nothing 4K as yet, but I don't want to be behind the curve when we are inevitably asked about it).
Our main monitors are currently:
Dell 2405 24” (with a dodgy indented power button :/)
Dell 2407 24”(with a dodgy spinning power button)
Dell 2709 27” (working fine at the moment, fingers crossed)
We bought the monitors at the time because of their even back lighting and accurate colour reproduction which has been invaluable when editing and printing. All of our colour correcting before printing is displayed on the 2709 which is a bit of a pain as it slows down the process having to check it all on just one monitor.
When not working we like to game as well and the thoughts of 4K gaming goodness seem appealing, our current highest PC is:
i7 3770K
Gigabyte Z77X-D3H
32GB DDR3
Geforce GTX 670
Windows 7 64bit
The more I read about 4K the more problems I seem to see with it and I'm not sure of it's potential yet, or if we (everyone but the hardware manufacturers) are ready for it.
I'm pretty sure that my PC won't run 4K at anywhere near reasonable frame rates with full graphical effects, I think a major upgrade would be needed....?
I've read that Windows 7 isn't built to handle those resolutions and doesn't work well at them because everything is too small. Windows 8 is fine, but with a major release of Windows 9...er...10, on the horizon who wants to change OS now.
UHD (3840x2160) seems to have been the resolution adopted by the market for monitors and TVs at the moment, but cinematic 4K is running at 4096x2160, so are we going to be getting films released in resolutions that the current screens can't support properly? The only monitor I can see on OCUK (and they seem to have a much wider range of 4K than the competition) is an LG which runs at true cinematic 4K.
So...
Games need a big upgrade to run
W7 OS can't display it properly
The monitors and TV's aren't running full 4K resolution.
I haven't even got as far as looking how good the screens are in comparison to what I use as far as colour accuracy and even lighting are concerned, I would hope that they blow my older monitors out of the water!
So tell me OCUK, what's the big benefit to 4K because at the moment I'm not really seeing it.