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Anonymouse
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Mar 17, 2014
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Okay, so it has a poor colour palette and slow refresh rate. Text still looks really sharp, though. People might say it's not a very good gaming monitor, but that's just because they haven't played Zork in glorious 4K UHD! It's WAY more immersive.
Anzial
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Mar 17, 2014
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Anonymouseand have you played Zork in 4K res AND 30hz refresh? It's not glorious, it's more like motion-sickness inducing. This monitor's ONLY good use is for text processing (programming), nothing else. It's not for gaming, it's not for manipulating pictures and it's most definitely not for multimedia use like watching videos because it'll produce flickering and, once again, motion sickness.
Shoppy
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Mar 17, 2014
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AnzialThat one went right over your head. Try looking up Zork and then Anonymouse's comment might make a bit more sense. Also, for watching videos, that's debatable - Film content is 24 frames/sec, so a 30Hz refresh rate isn't a big deal. Also, since your source content most likely isn't UHD/4K, you can just use the 1080P resolution and get 60Hz.
Anonymouse
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Mar 17, 2014
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AnzialNuh-uh, I swear I could almost make out a Grue. It's amazing.
(It won't cause "flicker", BTW, since digital dispalys update all pixels simultaneously. We haven't had scanning displays since analog tubes. The problem is that 30Hz isn't fast enough for smooth motion with sharp rendered images. Post-processing motion blur would hide this somewhat, but the sense of detail loss that'd introduce would make the 4K a bit pointless. And it's also not really 4K, it's "3.8K", but that's because for some bizarre reason the industry has decided to create two slightly different formats for cinema and consumer video, AGAIN. This was a great chance to settle on one unified resolutiuon, too. :c)
(It won't cause "flicker", BTW, since digital dispalys update all pixels simultaneously. We haven't had scanning displays since analog tubes. The problem is that 30Hz isn't fast enough for smooth motion with sharp rendered images. Post-processing motion blur would hide this somewhat, but the sense of detail loss that'd introduce would make the 4K a bit pointless. And it's also not really 4K, it's "3.8K", but that's because for some bizarre reason the industry has decided to create two slightly different formats for cinema and consumer video, AGAIN. This was a great chance to settle on one unified resolutiuon, too. :c)
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