Damn straight.I loved my FW900(actually the HP A7217A-rebadged FW900)...and I cried like a baby when it finally died.
I'd only do 4k, like many others here, when we get 4k, 120hz, IPS/OLED, with low input lag at a reasonable price. Yes I know, asking the impossible. But I'm one of the guys who held on to my fw900 for a long time and nothing beats that monitor for twitch gaming.
This. I just don't understand why consumers continue to put up with bright-grey as a representation of the color black. Playing games where there are dark areas on an LCD is [redacted] painful.
Because there is no other choice. In televisions there used to be a choice, if you wanted proper black levels you got a plasma but now those are going away.I just don't understand why consumers continue to put up with bright-grey as a representation of the color black.
The poll results reinforce my questioning of review sites seeming to focus on ultra high resolution results for gaming benchmarks. 1080P is going to stay the standard for a good while to come I suspect. If anything, I'd buy a higher quality 1080p screen rather than a cheaper higher resolution one. Hell I'm happy with my cheap 27" IPS at 1080p.
The opposite of 4K for all intents and purposes in this case is, 1080p.
1440 to a lesser degree I suppose. If you aren't running or planning to run 4K, you are mostly likely using 1080p(and thus far the informal poll says most people aren't planning to). When you mention the functional opposite
of a thing, it implies mention of the thing. Make sense?
I'm sure there are, 1440p is probably 2nd place in commonality behind 1080p.
The poll results reinforce my questioning of review sites seeming to focus on ultra high resolution results for gaming benchmarks.
I am waiting for 4K IPS monitor prices to come down, more options in the 32-37 screen sizes, FreeSync Vs. GSync to get sorted out, for GPUs to get a lot faster, and for Windows DPi scaling to improve. I have pencilled in my 4K upgrade around late 2017 to early 2018, unless my current monitor dies before then. I don't really want to run medium settings on a 4K and today even 980 SLI struggles to be great at 4K. 2560x1440/1600 is the sweet spot for current cards, unless one plays less demanding games or doesn't mind turning off some settings. I think dual GM200s will get us half way there and dual Pascal GP200 will be the ticket.
I felt that way about early LCD's, but feel like a quality modern monitor really looks great. I think the whites can be so good that the contrast ratio maybe makes it somewhat relative, maybe dimming backlight LED's help, maybe the panels are just better at absorbing backlight... I don't know. But I think today they look really good, CRT's certainly had flaws as well. But, to each their own. I'm sad to see plasma get phased out (my favorite TV in my house is a plasma), but the market seems to have decided, at least until newer technologies come.
This. I just don't understand why consumers continue to put up with bright-grey as a representation of the color black. Playing games where there are dark areas on an LCD is [redacted] painful.
Not true. Some LCDs have very good black levels.
LCD has succeeded for numerous reasons unrelated to it's actual image quality (power usage, size etc), and I couldn't care less if that bothers you. Want to know what bothers me? Shitty black levels.Here's a question though. What else is your option? You don't have one when your current display fails. Few things bug me as much as someone bagging on LCD technology.
As a television technology, plasma went away because the industry comes up with some new way to market LCD's every few years. First it was "120 hz", then it was LED, now it's going to be quantum dot, all the while they still have bad black levels and poor motion and screen uniformity issues. Poor marketing killed plasma. Start up a convo about plasma with a typical person and you'll get questions like "don't you have to fill them up after a while?" and "don't they get dim really fast?" etc.If plasma and crt was so great they wouldn't have failed and gotten discontinued. There are still a few crt models left out there but almost nobody except professionals that work in graphic arts want them.
The major downfall IMO was power usage. Efficiency and cost is king these days.
of course it's going to be my only option. Whats your point?
also, ir isn't an issue on recent plasmas. and yes, ips monitors have AWFUL black levels. every last one of them. if you really had a plasma you would absolutely not be arguing that.
No they don't. Not a single one.Not true. Some LCDs have very good black levels.
If plasma and crt was so great they wouldn't have failed and gotten discontinued.
The poll results reinforce my questioning of review sites seeming to focus on ultra high resolution results for gaming benchmarks. 1080P is going to stay the standard for a good while to come I suspect. If anything, I'd buy a higher quality 1080p screen rather than a cheaper higher resolution one. Hell I'm happy with my cheap 27" IPS at 1080p.
I have a plasma TV and my comment still stands. LCD isn't perfect, but what is? I wish plasma wouldn't be phased out, I think other than potential burn-in issues it was the best of all of them. But, I still think current quality LCD's aren't bad at all.