Poll: What monitor will you buy? Poll

[4K8KW10]

Until the hardware to support higher resolutions becomes cheaper/more easily available then I think 1080p will be an option for a few more years to come still.

Hardware has been there for many years.
Worser than consoles potato PCs shouldn't be allowed to dictate speed of advance.

I agree - but my comment isn't about hardware being there, it's about the hardware being affordable and available.

The market dictates the speed surely? So if people are still running hardware that performs better at 1080p than 4k then monitor sales will be heavily focused towards that as that is what will generate the most income. BenQ released their 'updated' 1080p monitors last year! Updated 1080p monitors in 2021... Mad.

When a GPU that can handle 4K at 60fps is priced in the same realm as a '1080p' GPU then people will upgrade and manufacturers will respond to that.

Honestly I'm just here waiting for a 25" 1440p high refresh and IPS panel - because whilst I don't mind 1080p at 25" I much prefer 1440p, and 27" monitors are huge to me.

There are resolutions in-between 1080p and 4K. 1440p, for example or any other between 1080p and 2160p.

The problem is absolutely the lack of initiative to progress the native resolution.
What we get is 99% 1080p and 1% everything else.

And the problem is not in the hardware, the problem is political..

 

[EsaT]

/\/\/\ I like that. I'll keep it in mind.

Usability of those LG's 27" 2560x1440 "Nano-IPS" panel using monitors depends heavily on room illumination.
While response times are one of the best with extremely well tuned overdrive, their contrast is from dozen+ years ago.
That's really inexplicable considering other size/resolution Nano-IPS panels have normal contrast.
But that means they need good room light level to mask that.

 

[Tired9]

I truly am happy with the monitor I have, Gigabyte's M27Q 2560x1440 and 170hz refresh.
It suffers with HDR... which I am happy with not using when this monitor is IPS, has over 1000:1 contrast ratio which for IPS is very rare.
0.5ms Pixel response is equally insane for IPS and the latency measurements stays completely stable across the refresh range even down to 60hz which makes this monitor the best I have ever owned.

It is hard to beat due to it's price.

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/gigabyte/m27q

This is a BGR panel... which is a non issue, if you disable letting Windows mess with scaling in apps it defaults the application to BGR or (Fixed cleartype) But you have to go into properties and do this for some apps.

 

[Tired9]

Usability of those LG's 27" 2560x1440 "Nano-IPS" panel using monitors depends heavily on room illumination.
While response times are one of the best with extremely well tuned overdrive, their contrast is from dozen+ years ago.
That's really inexplicable considering other size/resolution Nano-IPS panels have normal contrast.
But that means they need good room light level to mask that.

I have a Samsung VA 1080P 144hz panel which I bust, that does over 3000:1 contrast and I can say that the M27Q never showed any noticeable difference in actual use, clarity and ghosting and response times, that is a night and day difference though.

VA is like using Vaseline when in motion as glasses.

 

[alec]

VA is like using Vaseline when in motion as glasses.

Generally true, but not for Samsung Odyssey G7/G9 VA.

 

[EsaT]

I have a Samsung VA 1080P 144hz panel which I bust, that does over 3000:1 contrast and I can say that the M27Q never showed any noticeable difference in actual use...

M27Q uses panel from Sharp and has contrast well above IPS normal and like 40% better than in LG's 27" 2560x1440 Nano-IPS.