How does movie and image scaling work? How would a monitor with a funky resolution be for movies? This is the thread for you.

[Sauron]

Have three 2560x1080 at work. Unfortunately can't spend my limited time in the office watching movies. Had one at home, before deciding I needed it more for productivity. Have had hands on experience with both LGs and AOCs 3440*1440.

It looks better to me, at about 2 feet of distance. Whereas a 1080p at 27" at that distance kinda screws me over in general desktop use. I'm sure there is stretching and interpolation going on on the 2560*1080s but to me that's a) completely unnoticeable and B) much more preferable to black bars.

 

I suppose if black bars bother you it might be a good solution. Personally I never cared about those ^^ hence why I'd probably go for 2560x1440 at that point.

[Guest]

What about 1680x1050?

[Sauron]

What about 1680x1050?

 

It's not a multiple or divisor of either 1080p or 720p, so you'll get degenerative interpolation with both.

[Lord_Karango17]

Wait, before getting my razer blade, Linus talked about how running games at 900p on its 1800 x 3200 screen would be a 1 to 4 pixel mapping, however in practice it looks pretty bad, so I was wondering why it does not work like it "should"

 

That would also mean that someone running a 4k monitor would be greeted with less than stellar interpolation whole running a game at 1080p which does not make much intuitive sense...

[Sauron]

Wait, before getting my razer blade, Linus talked about how running games at 900p on its 1800 x 3200 screen would be a 1 to 4 pixel mapping, however in practice it looks pretty bad, so I was wondering why it does not work like it "should"

 

That would also mean that someone running a 4k monitor would be greeted with less than stellar interpolation whole running a game at 1080p which does not make much intuitive sense...

 

The reason 900p looks meh is because, well... it's 900p. No amount of perfect scaling will make it look better than it is. I was corrected after writing the op regarding perfect scaling in that SOME interpolation actually occurs. Through personal experience (running a 4k monitor myself) I found this doesn't seem to make picture quality worse, if anything somewhat better; however if you look close enough the interpolation is visible, and may bother you. I have a 1080p monitor right next to my main one, and even through various tests, I have no desire of watching anything on it instead of on the 4k one. This may very well be just personal taste and it's possible that you'll have a completely different experience; I just hope this thread was informative on how the technology physically works so you can draw your own conclusions.

[wall03]

On 6/1/2014 at 8:25 AM, Sauron said:

feel free to ask me to add yours if it doesn't figure here

1050 x 1680 (height x width)