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ASUS PQ321Q Monitor Brings Multi-Stream Tiled Displays Forward
Vigile writes "While 4K displays have been popping up all over the place recently with noticeably lower prices, one thing that kind of limits them all is a 30 Hz refresh rate panel. Sony is selling 4K consumer HDTVs for $5000 and new-comer SEIKI has a 50-in model going for under $1000 but they all share that trait — HDMI 1.4 supporting 3840x2160 at 30 Hz. The new ASUS PQ321Q monitor is a 31.5-in 4K display built on the same platform as the Sharp PN-K321 and utilizes a DisplayPort 1.2 connection capable of MST (multi-stream transport). This allows the screen to include two display heads internally, showing up as two independent monitors to some PCs that can then be merged into a single panel via AMD Eyefinity or NVIDIA Surround. Thus, with dual 1920x2160 60 Hz signals, the PQ321Q can offer 3840x2160 at 60 Hz for a much better viewing experience. PC Perspective got one of the monitors in for testing and review and found that the while there were some hurdles during initial setup (especially with NVIDIA hardware), the advantage of a higher refresh rate made the 4K resolution that much better."
so how much is this sharp one? why mention price of 5k and 1k?
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FYI, Seiki also has a 39" version of their 4K monitor/tv for only $700 MSRP. It is limited to 30Hz at 4K but will do faster at lower resolutions. You might even be able to convince it to do passive 3D, I haven't paid close attention to the people hacking at that on the 50" version.
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16x9... pass.
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As these become more common it's going to be interesting to see how this affects SLR usage. I'm using a Nikon at 4928x3264 and it seems as screens approach that size I will at least lose some of my cropping range and also when you are viewing images close to 100% grain and other sometimes unavoidable artifacts become more apparent. I'm sure for people who do a lot of printing this will be a minimal issue but for sharing on Flickr and Google Plus this might force some wallets to open sooner rather than later!
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My TV box has HDMI out, my video camera has HDMI out, my surround receiver has HDMI in/out for pass-through, in fact the only places I can find DisplayPort is on graphics cards and screens mostly intended as monitors, not TVs. HDMI version 2.0 with 4K/UltraHD @ 60Hz support should be out any day now (it was scheduled for first half of 2013, apparently a little late) and unless they completely break backwards compatibility I think that's what everything will use. So unless you really want 4K right now(tm) even though content is extremely rare except stills I'd wait a few more months.
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It's looking as if 4k refers to the price more than the pixel width :(
It'll come down to only $3840 pretty soon.
I understand the need to split the screen into tiles to get a higher refresh rate with current connectivity options but it seems it would have made more sense to do it as three 1280x2160 panels because both of the major video card manufacturers are already on board with presenting three screens as a single display. Been doing it for ages now. Yeah, it's an extra cable to run but it works right now. Eyefinity from ATI and Surround from Nvidia would handle this just fine. At most they'd need a minor driver update to provide the unusual resolution.
"In order to address these scale/DPI issues, in Window 8.1 the maximum DPI scaling value was increased from 150% to 200%"
So, basically, somewhere between XP/2003 and windows 8, Microsoft removed the 200% scaling option? Lets hear it for progress, windows 8.1 now with features we had 14 years ago. What next overlapping windows?
Ha, no wonder people keep complaining about windows scaling.
Also, per their full screen chrome screenshot, maybe the guy in charge of the pcper style sheet should consider that fixed width layouts sort of suck. Even on a 1920 wide screen it looks stupid that 50% of the horizontal resolution is whitespace.
IBM's T221 monitor, the now ancient 3840x2400 22" 200dpi display, did the exact same thing.
It had 4 DVI inputs (newer models can support 2 dual-link DVIs), splitting up the screen into 1-4 stripes, depending on your bandwidth and setup. It's also directly plug & play, with no setup issues whatsoever on Linux, for what it's worth, and max frame rate is simply bound to how large each link is offering.
I've got a single card driving 2 T221s at a whopping 12Hz (single-link DVI each), and some low-res 30" 2560x1600 monitor with the displayport connector. 22 megapixels from 1 card is pretty nice, and I could be driving the T221s at 24Hz if I had the dual-link DVI connectors.
They were very flexible in their setup, not sure what Asus did here to make it a pain to set up.
it seems that we need an ACTIVE DisplayPort to HDMI 1.4 adapter (which I have ordered but are still not yet available) to get it to work correctly
The requirement to use active DisplayPort to HDMI adapters on AMD cards has been around since 2009 when the Eyefinity-6 SKU of the HD 5800 cards were released. This lowers the cost of the cards for end users who don't run multimonitor configurations by leaving some costly components off the card and putting them in the dongles instead. I take issue with anyone claiming expertise in display technology who does not understand this.
It replaces 4x 25" 1080 displays with a single VESA mount. You mount it on the wall behind your desk. Use 4K for work and 1080p with a modest videocard for games. Sounds just about perfect.
I'm not saying it's perfect for most people, but I'd prefer it to the 3x 32" 1080x1920 (sideways mounted) monitor setups I'm seeing.
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> Many apps like Office make use of the wide screen by by having more than 1 page up at a time. Eclipse and now VS 2012 put more toolboxen and tools to the right and left of the screen...
Because they have to. Because the users were forced to buy widescreen. Because the manufacturers gave them no alternative other than widescreen.
It's sad that those decisions are forcing developers to change their software (desktops and the programs on them) to workaround the limitations of that particular screen ratio, even for those people who would have preferred to buy fullscreen instead. And then, because the software has been changed to fit, that's now used as an argument why widescreen is better.
From reading that article, I've learned nVidia have deliberately crippled their drivers to disallow a 2x1 surround setup. For absolutely no rational reason I can discern. So grats nVidia, my next graphics card will be AMD.
Someone tell me were not going down the 90s road again of having bigger monitors with ASS refresh rates for the high resolutions or worse Interlaced.
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prior to widescreen, I was forced to buy non-widescreen monitors. Because the manufacturers gave me no alternative other than standard aspect ratios. It was sad that those decisions were forcing developers to design their software for such a limited space (desktops and the programs on them) to work around the limitations of that particular screen ratio, even for people who would have preferred to buy widescreen instead. And then, because the software was designed to fit, it was used as an argument on why the aspect ratio should never change.