What is best resolution for computer monitor
Monitor/Screen/Display Specs Explained ft. Display Resolution, Aspect Ratio, Ultrawide
alright you might think you know how to
buy a monitor but you might not
necessarily know everything there is to
know about the advantages and
disadvantages of the different available
resolutions and aspect ratios so that is
the point of today's video
quickly put display resolution is the
number of distinct pixels that a display
device can have displayed on it it can
be described as width by height with
units being measured in pixels so for
example 1920 by 1080 would mean a width
of 1920 pixels and the height of 1080
pixels now to be clear resolution
officially more technically means how
finally an image can be resolved and so
4k even though it's four times as many
pixels as 1080p would actually be twice
the resolution if you draw a line and
you cross X number of pixels it would be
2x so 1080p but since most people don't
really think about it that way we're
going to use the colloquial definition
of resolution which is the pixels by the
pixels now when talking about resolution
one can always expect to hear the term
aspect ratio brought up alongside it
this describes the proportional
relationship of the images width and
height so two of the most common aspect
ratios historically are four by three
and sixteen by nine four by three was
used in traditional televisions you know
the ones with the tubes on the back that
kids today might have never even seen
one where a sixteen by nine was and
still is used in digital broadcast TV
standards for widescreen now that the
basics are covered let's go over some of
the more sort of intricate things well
it's not really intricated so its basics
but what you guys might want to think
about if you're shopping for a monitor
so the first one is 1920 by 1080 versus
1920 by 1200 basically this is wide
versus like wide but like more tall so
tall wide has a ratio of 16 to 10 and
tall wide monitors are we're actually
the widescreen PC monitor standard until
the more TV centric aspect ratio of 16
by 9 came along you can still find tall
wide monitors like this asu's PA 248 Q
but they are not as abundant anymore
even though some people do prefer them
because a little bit of extra vertical
space is nice because it gives you just
that little bit more for you know I
don't know a larger taskbar or something
along those lines without taking away
vertical space from whatever it is
you're reading or working on
speaking of sixteen by nine which I went
off-script so we're not a 1080 versus
1440 what's the deal why should I spend
more money on a 27-inch 1440 resolution
or 2560 by 1440 monitor like the BenQ
gw2 765 HT versus a regular 27-inch 1080
monitor well I like to think about it
this way if I'm upgrading from a 1080p
24 inch to a 1080p 27 inch I'm really
just working with the same number of
pixels just on a larger screen so I
haven't actually gained any extra screen
real estate and the pixels are going to
be much larger so I'm gonna actually get
a worse pixel pitch and lower fineness
of the image compared to if I went with
a 27-inch monitor that also had a higher
resolution to go with its higher size
bigger size next up is ultra wide this
guy right here so we've recently seen an
influx of ultra wide monitors such as
LG's 25 um 65 P these are just monitors
that are well ultra wide I mean if
you've ever wondered why it is when you
watch HD movies sometimes you see those
black bars on the top and bottom even
though you have a widescreen monitor
well that's because the film industry
produces a lot of movies in what is very
close to a 21 by 9 aspect ratio and when
you're playing certain games or watching
these kinds of movies having a wild
field of view like this without bezels
in the way which would happen if you had
multiple LCDs in Eyefinity or Nvidia
surround can be much more immersive now
most ultra wide displays are using
standard resolutions but wider so
they're going to have 1080 vertical
pixels just like a 1080p monitor would
but then they'll have 2560 instead of
1920 wide and then the same goes for the
larger higher res 1440 tall ones that
are 34 40 wide instead of 2560 wide
alright so here's a curveball up until
now we've been talking about the
measurements of all these monitors
usually in terms of vertical pixels and
the industry standard so it's 1080p
which is
pixels but now with 2k 4k and even 5k
the terminology is changing which can
make things a little bit confusing 4k
for example is a term for displays that
have approximately 4,000 horizontal
pixels and then 2k would be about 2000
horizontal pixels or slightly higher
resolution than 1080p on and then 3k
3000 and so on and so forth but
unfortunately they the the 4k standard
is not very clear and is often misused
so most consumers even though they're
hearing 4k are actually usually talking
about Ultra HD which is 3840 by 2160
actual 4k has slightly more horizontal
pixels and is more for professional use
at this time so why not just stick to
the old naming scheme I guess 2160p just
didn't have the same ring to it as 1080p
did so yeah next time you're looking at
4k or 5k displays keep in mind that
that's the measurement of the horizontal
pixels or make life easy for yourself
and just find out exactly how many
horizontal and vertical it has so you
have a some idea of the fineness of the
image you're dealing with now one thing
to watch out for with these high
resolution displays especially ones that
are physically small but have many many
pixels on them is that not all operating
systems handle display scaling very well
so even though in theory like on apples
retina iMac 5k display the actual
elements are the same size like text for
example and they're just finer that's
not always the case and windows for
example especially some third-party
applications has a little bit of trouble
scaling text so that it's actually still
readable and instead of fine larger text
you end up with very very very small
text comprised of the same number of
pixels so that's yet another thing to
think about when you're shopping for a
monitor right now for Windows users the
sweet spot is kind of that 27 inch size
1440p or 34 inch size 1440p where it
still looks very fine but very readable
as long as you have good eyesight
but something to consider is maybe that
1080p 27-inch monitor is perfect for you
because you
like to have display elements blown up
and be able to see them better so thanks
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