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Is it bad to look at highly pixelated images?

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I don't mean if its not ideal...I mean is it actually harmful to your eyes--like trying to read a book in a dark room is (as it stresses your eyes). 

 

I'm wondering since I have a 1920x1200 (as my main monitor) and a secondary monitor at 1440x900 and the different resolutions bothers me a bit...So, i'd like to upscale the 1440x900 to 1920x1200 so I can have matching resolutions. 

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Try it. If it hurts your eyes to look at it for extended periods of time then probably yes and you should revert. If not, then you're good :)

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As the title says... 

 

I don't mean if its not ideal...I mean is it actually harmful to your eyes--like trying to read a book in a dark room is (as it stresses your eyes). 

 

I'm wondering since I have a 1920x1200 (as my main monitor) and a secondary monitor at 1440x900 and the different resolutions bothers me a bit...So, i'd like to upscale the 1440x900 to 1920x1200 so I can have matching resolutions. 

No? I have a 1440x900 monitor and it's fine? I don't get what you're saying lol

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No? I have a 1440x900 monitor and it's fine?

I mean if I run my 1440x900 monitor at 1920x1200, in which case it gets highly pixelated. 

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I mean if I run my 1440x900 monitor at 1920x1200, in which case it gets highly pixelated. 

Oh. I didn't even know that was possible lol

 

Anyways looking at pixelated images couldn't possibly be bad for your eyes. When the iPhone first came out, people (including me) thought wow it's so high resolution for a mobile device, after the iPhone 4 came out with the same size screen and 4x the pixels, people got used to retina display. Now go back to the iPhone 2g/3g/3gs and what was once and amazing screen now looks like a pixelated mess.

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As the title says... 

 

I don't mean if its not ideal...I mean is it actually harmful to your eyes--like trying to read a book in a dark room is (as it stresses your eyes). 

 

I'm wondering since I have a 1920x1200 (as my main monitor) and a secondary monitor at 1440x900 and the different resolutions bothers me a bit...So, i'd like to upscale the 1440x900 to 1920x1200 so I can have matching resolutions. 

 

I don't imagine it is a big deal, It might take a little getting used to but not much more.

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People who grew up with SD monitors should be harmed if that was the case. There is no problem. It's not like reading in the dark, more like reading a fotocopy

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Well no. Haveing too much brightness applied on the monitor all the time probably will ruin your eyes more.

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Unless your squinting trying to look at things I see no harm.

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staring at the monitor for long hours is actually bad for your eyes

 

trust me

 

my eyes are really broken now when CRTs were in the rage

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As the title says... 

 

I don't mean if its not ideal...I mean is it actually harmful to your eyes--like trying to read a book in a dark room is (as it stresses your eyes). 

 

I'm wondering since I have a 1920x1200 (as my main monitor) and a secondary monitor at 1440x900 and the different resolutions bothers me a bit...So, i'd like to upscale the 1440x900 to 1920x1200 so I can have matching resolutions.

Reading in the dark might make your eyes sore or irritated, but it's not in the least bit harmful.

And no, if anything pixelated stuff and poor resolution is more harmful to your soul than your eyes.

The difference in resolutions shouldn't be a problem either, if your scaling is working correctly, it might annoy your eyes rather than make your situation better if your eyes have to refocus to another monitor because the scaling is way off from forced downsampling.

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