My experience has been that 1440p is noticeable jump in quality on desktop monitors but less so laptops. On desktop 4K is virtually unnoticeable, a high refresh rate, HDR, and OLED are far more noticeable.
For TV, I’ve found that it depends more on distance from the screen and resolution and bit rate of the media. I sit about 8’ from a 65” 4K tv and the difference between Blu-ray quality at 1080p and 4K is night and day.
I have a 4k TV and don’t get it either. Watched the odd video in 4k and the colors are maybe a bit crisper, but that’s about it. I’d have to compare movies side by side to actually spot the difference.
Not worth it IMHO.
Can’t tell for screens though, I don’t even know whether mine does 4k or not. Was part of the home-office package from my company. I’ll have to check that tomorrow, only returning from a business trip tonight.
I have a 4k TV and don’t get it either. Watched the odd video in 4k and the colors are maybe a bit crisper, but that’s about it. I’d have to compare movies side by side to actually spot the difference.
The point of 4k is that you can have a TV twice as large as your 1080p TV before it without losing sharpness.
I can definitely tell the difference on my 77” OLED.
You should see a clear difference at that distance. You may want to get your eyes checked, your eyes get worse as you get older and it can really creep up on you without noticing.
Strange. I used to have a 65” OLED, I sit farther away than you (about 3.5 meters) and could easily spot the difference even though I’m near sighted and at that time my prescription needed updating. Now, with new glasses and a 77” screen the difference is like night and day.
on a similar topic, I recently upgraded my screen from two 24’’ 1080x60 to 24’’ 1080x144 & 27’’ 1080x120. I barely tell the difference but my card sure does, I quickly limited the refresh rate of both to 60 because I it’s pointless and I’ve read too many people saying that once you go 120+ it feels bad watching 60, and I really don’t want to get used to something that just makes me spend more electricity for nothing.
If you enjoy stuff fine in FullHD, don’t bother increasing the resolution. As others have explained, there are other things to upgrade before going for resolution that will have a bigger impact on the image. That said, purchasing a good screen that happens to have 2K or anything higher than 1080 is no big deal, just set your resolution to whatever you want from software and be done with it.
That said, purchasing a good screen that happens to have 2K or anything higher than 1080 is no big deal, just set your resolution to whatever you want from software and be done with it.
That’s awful advise, a 1440p monitor running at 1080p will look like a blurry mess
This! My 32” 4K display is great for the screen estate. I’ve learned I can work much better with one large display than with 2-3 separate 1080p/1200p displays.
But on my 40” TV I couldn’t care less about it being “only” 1080p. That’s more than enough.
I had a 1440p monitor and “downgraded” back to 1080p when it broke because I could barely tell the difference when gaming and I get a significantly higher framerate in most games at 1080p, which does make a big difference for me.
4K is nice for a large computer monitor if you want to replace a multi monitor setup with a single monitor. It needs to be 40+ inches, unfortunately there are not many monitors like that available.
There is always a subjective component in this kind of discussions but this image will help you to see if yiur setup will make sense based in the real perception of the human eye.
Tbh anyone claiming they can’t see the difference between 1080 and 4k on a monitor at a normal viewing distance is being disingenuous or has vision problems. The difference is very very noticeable.
That being said, I find the step from a 60hz to a 120hz monitor a bigger qol improvement than going from 1080 to 4K. But that’s my personal opinion.
I moved from a 1080p monitor to a 1440p one for my main display and it’s actually really worthwhile. Not only is your daily computing sharper, but multitasking becomes easier because smaller windows are still legible.
IMO it’s a lot easier on the eyes when things are sharper, too.
1080p is still more than enough, but I think 1440p is worth it for a screen you’re using for hours every day :)
Reading 100% feels better, seeing tiny icons/logos without it being a pixelated mess is also good, and video looks much crisper, same goes for videogames, and the performance hit from 1080 to 1440 isn’t bad at all.
I was a skeptic; “I can’t see all the pixels unless I’m as close to the screen as the screen is wide, why bother?”
Then I went over to my friend’s place and watched some stuff on his 4K OLED. Holy shit. So I can’t see all the pixels, but turns out that only perceiving 2.5-3x the data is still a big improvement.
I’m still not gonna pay for one until they get a lot cheaper.
2.8k seems about the sweet spot on a laptop to be from your face & see no pixels or even have to think about font hinting & the like. The bigger wins are OLEDs for blacks & picking up something with 100% DCI-P3.
Higher resolutions are needed for larger displays (45’+) if you want to look at them closer. Other than that a higher resolution can look slightly better but the performance hit usually isn’t worth it. Idk about professional use cases though. I’m not a designer. Btw I use a 35’ 1366x768 (or something like that) monitor
It only matters when you are watching on something like a projector screen which is large enough that pixels are not dense enough, thats when more resolution improves quality. For a daily use 23 inch monitor 4k is not worth the cost over 1080p in my opinion.
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My experience has been that 1440p is noticeable jump in quality on desktop monitors but less so laptops. On desktop 4K is virtually unnoticeable, a high refresh rate, HDR, and OLED are far more noticeable.
For TV, I’ve found that it depends more on distance from the screen and resolution and bit rate of the media. I sit about 8’ from a 65” 4K tv and the difference between Blu-ray quality at 1080p and 4K is night and day.
I have a 4k TV and don’t get it either. Watched the odd video in 4k and the colors are maybe a bit crisper, but that’s about it. I’d have to compare movies side by side to actually spot the difference.
Not worth it IMHO.
Can’t tell for screens though, I don’t even know whether mine does 4k or not. Was part of the home-office package from my company. I’ll have to check that tomorrow, only returning from a business trip tonight.
The benefit of the higher resolution shouldn’t be about the colors, but that with bigger screens the movie does not start to get blurry.
For desktop use on a desktop display, I don’t see the benefit either. Even less on a phone, that is totally unnecessary.
The point of 4k is that you can have a TV twice as large as your 1080p TV before it without losing sharpness.
I can definitely tell the difference on my 77” OLED.
Mine is 65" and I really can’t, unless I switch between files rapidly. 720p to 1080p, definitely. But larger, hardly.
What is your viewing distance?
I’d say about 2.5 meters, maybe 3.
You should see a clear difference at that distance. You may want to get your eyes checked, your eyes get worse as you get older and it can really creep up on you without noticing.
I just did during my annual checkup 2 weeks ago shortly after turning 40, still got 20/20 vision. No idea then…
Strange. I used to have a 65” OLED, I sit farther away than you (about 3.5 meters) and could easily spot the difference even though I’m near sighted and at that time my prescription needed updating. Now, with new glasses and a 77” screen the difference is like night and day.
Since you are convinced about the higher resolution, you really are going to enjoy it.
But let me urge you to also buy a higher refresh rate. The same discussion applies here.
Even if the human eye can’t count the pixels or the frames, you WILL perceived it as more relaxing on the eye.
on a similar topic, I recently upgraded my screen from two 24’’ 1080x60 to 24’’ 1080x144 & 27’’ 1080x120. I barely tell the difference but my card sure does, I quickly limited the refresh rate of both to 60 because I it’s pointless and I’ve read too many people saying that once you go 120+ it feels bad watching 60, and I really don’t want to get used to something that just makes me spend more electricity for nothing.
If you enjoy stuff fine in FullHD, don’t bother increasing the resolution. As others have explained, there are other things to upgrade before going for resolution that will have a bigger impact on the image. That said, purchasing a good screen that happens to have 2K or anything higher than 1080 is no big deal, just set your resolution to whatever you want from software and be done with it.
That’s awful advise, a 1440p monitor running at 1080p will look like a blurry mess
I don’t really care about my TV being 4K, but I like the extra desktop space on my PC.
This! My 32” 4K display is great for the screen estate. I’ve learned I can work much better with one large display than with 2-3 separate 1080p/1200p displays.
But on my 40” TV I couldn’t care less about it being “only” 1080p. That’s more than enough.
I had a 1440p monitor and “downgraded” back to 1080p when it broke because I could barely tell the difference when gaming and I get a significantly higher framerate in most games at 1080p, which does make a big difference for me.
You can also run the game at 1080p and use FSR to upscale it to native resolution, that’s what I often do on my 4k monitor.
Yeah, but that doesn’t work well on 1440p because it doesn’t scale perfectly.
Yeah this one of the cases where not upgrading is better.
If you mostly play FPS online and/or fast paced games, it can make a difference.
4K is nice for a large computer monitor if you want to replace a multi monitor setup with a single monitor. It needs to be 40+ inches, unfortunately there are not many monitors like that available.
Take a look onto he following image: https://i0.wp.com/www.techjunkie.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/tv-size-distance-chart.png?ssl=1
There is always a subjective component in this kind of discussions but this image will help you to see if yiur setup will make sense based in the real perception of the human eye.
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Tbh anyone claiming they can’t see the difference between 1080 and 4k on a monitor at a normal viewing distance is being disingenuous or has vision problems. The difference is very very noticeable.
That being said, I find the step from a 60hz to a 120hz monitor a bigger qol improvement than going from 1080 to 4K. But that’s my personal opinion.
I moved from a 1080p monitor to a 1440p one for my main display and it’s actually really worthwhile. Not only is your daily computing sharper, but multitasking becomes easier because smaller windows are still legible.
IMO it’s a lot easier on the eyes when things are sharper, too.
1080p is still more than enough, but I think 1440p is worth it for a screen you’re using for hours every day :)
Reading 100% feels better, seeing tiny icons/logos without it being a pixelated mess is also good, and video looks much crisper, same goes for videogames, and the performance hit from 1080 to 1440 isn’t bad at all.
I was a skeptic; “I can’t see all the pixels unless I’m as close to the screen as the screen is wide, why bother?”
Then I went over to my friend’s place and watched some stuff on his 4K OLED. Holy shit. So I can’t see all the pixels, but turns out that only perceiving 2.5-3x the data is still a big improvement.
I’m still not gonna pay for one until they get a lot cheaper.
2.8k seems about the sweet spot on a laptop to be from your face & see no pixels or even have to think about font hinting & the like. The bigger wins are OLEDs for blacks & picking up something with 100% DCI-P3.
Higher resolutions are needed for larger displays (45’+) if you want to look at them closer. Other than that a higher resolution can look slightly better but the performance hit usually isn’t worth it. Idk about professional use cases though. I’m not a designer. Btw I use a 35’ 1366x768 (or something like that) monitor
On my 4k 32" usually I run 4 programs at the same time, one at each corner. It’s like having 4 1080p screens (I keep scaling at 100%)
Yeah, this has been huge for productivity for me. Or looking at huge spreadsheets.
It only matters when you are watching on something like a projector screen which is large enough that pixels are not dense enough, thats when more resolution improves quality. For a daily use 23 inch monitor 4k is not worth the cost over 1080p in my opinion.
I have a 1440p 24 " monitor with 120 DPI setting.
Resolution is much better for fonts - helps with my astigmatism.
The 1440p is a compromise between price and performance.
If you can, go to the electronic shops and see in person.