Are We At the Limit of Screen Resolution Improvements?

itwbennett writes "A pair of decisions by Motorola and Ubuntu to settle for 'good enough' when it comes to screen resolution for the Ubuntu Edge and the Moto X raises the question: Have we reached the limit of resolution improvements that people with average vision can actually notice?" Phone vs. laptop vs. big wall-mounted monitor seems an important distinction; the 10-foot view really is different.

Comments

Re:Digital Movie Projection... and "Average People

[Anonymous Coward]

Because 1/2 of the population is above average.

Half the population is above (or below) the median.

Re:Not until Anti-Aliasing isn't a thing

[gl4ss]

can't seem to edit my previous post. antialiasing has nothing to do with resolution.

antialiasing and font edge smoothing as it is understood when people speak of antialiasing has pretty much everything to do with resolution.

if you can't see the individual pixels, and need say a group of 10x10 pixels to see a point on the screen, it becomes meaningless to do any subpixel effects of any kind on those 100 pixels that make up the smallest unit you can actually see.

and slashdot doesn't have an edit functionality btw.