1080p at 49'

[AzrealNoctis]

while im very unlikely to buy it, i saw a moniter that was similarly priced to the moniter that i was planning to buy, but this one was 49 inches and was only 1080p. How does that resolution work at that size?

[Oshino Shinobu]

Not many monitors are 49", sounds like a TV to me. 

 

It really depends on how far away you are from it and what you're using it for. It's fine for watching 1080p content from a sofa as you would with a normal TV, but if you're using it as a monitor at a desk it will look horrible. 

[Downkey]

1 minute ago, AzrealNoctis said:

while im very unlikely to buy it, i saw a moniter that was similarly priced to the moniter that i was planning to buy, but this one was 49 inches and was only 1080p. How does that resolution work at that size?

That won’t look great. I have 27 inches at 1080, and If I look closely I can see individual pixels, so 49 inches would be pretty bad. I wouldn’t recommend buying it unless you need a big secondary display now.

[Kilrah]

Very bad unless you're very far, i.e. couch distance. At monitor distance you want 4K at that size (exactly what I'm using).

[MoonlightSylv]

It'll look pretty terrible unless you're using it as a TV.

[TomvanWijnen]

It's just fine. I recommend not being as close to it as a regular monitor, but more like a meter or more away - it'd be too big for your peripheral vision anyways.

[Kilrah]

3 minutes ago, TomvanWijnen said:

It's just fine. I recommend not being as close to it as a regular monitor, but more like a meter or more away

I guess your eyes are... forgiving to low detail?

 

I used to have a 32" 1080p at about 1m away and it was absolutely horrid.

 

But then again I can't stand 1080p even at 24".

[TomvanWijnen]

45 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

I guess your eyes are... forgiving to low detail?

 

I used to have a 32" 1080p at about 1m away and it was absolutely horrid.

 

But then again I can't stand 1080p even at 24".

I think the last sentence explains it. With my desktop I use 24" 1200p monitors, and, yeah, if I put my head really close to the screen, I can see pixels, but if I just look from about 50 cm away it's more than fine. I definitely wouldn't call it low detail. I have a 3120x1440 phone screen so it's not like I don't know better.