Blurry are the texts in a large monitor or TV with BGR subpixel structure?

[e22big]

I've noticed that a lot of people seem to use a relatively small TV for a monitor, even when they are doing a text-intensive task (i.e. coding), however, most TV and a large (40+ inch) monitor seems to come with a BGR subpixel structure which will render them unable to display a text content as clear as those with the traditional RGB in a typical size PC monitor. 

 

Since I am considering one of these to replace my current working monitor as well, I wonder how do you cope with all those blurry text? Are you just getting used to it? or is it never an issue? As a guy who works a lot with texts, I tend to consider text clarity to be the most critical area for my purchase but if if so many people who never have problem with say - using LG OLED for coding, I might give it a second thought 

[Kilrah]

No blurry text here (49" TV), and Windows ClearType text rendering can be configured for different subpixel arrangements too.

[e22big]

1 minute ago, Kilrah said:

No blurry text here (49" TV), and Windows ClearType text rendering can be configured for different subpixel arrangements too.

does it works for all the apps though - I am a translator by trade and I have to work with a few of text editing softwares, some of them are Chrome-based. Or is there anyway to make sure that it works with the app I used? 

[jones177]

Text is important to me as well.

 

Typing this I am using a 49" LG Nanocell 85 TV. The text is sharper than any of the 1440p monitors I have used.

 

I did look at lots of 43" monitor reviews and they seem to use the same BGR panel.

 

I do have OLEDs that I use as gaming monitors but they do burn in on static anything. On mine Chrome burnt in.

 

The lowest resolution I like for text is 1600 vertical pixels and that is on my 38" LG 3840 X 1600 ultra wide. It looks as sharp as 4k but it cost more than double the 49" LG TV.

[e22big]

1 minute ago, jones177 said:

Text is important to me as well.

 

Typing this I am using a 49" LG Nanocell 85 TV. The text is sharper than any of the 1440p monitors I have used.

 

I did look at lots of 43" monitor reviews and they seem to use the same BGR panel.

 

I do have OLEDs that I use as gaming monitors but they do burn in on static anything. On mine Chrome burnt in.

 

The lowest resolution I like for text is 1600 vertical pixels and that is on my 38" LG 3840 X 1600 ultra wide. It looks as sharp as 4k but it cost more than double the 49" LG TV.

Have you ever experienced a situation like in the image below where the BRG text rendering (TV) is significantly worse than those with RGB (monitor)

 

 

[Kilrah]

No, never seen something ugly like that. I also do mostly text and have never had anything to complain about.

[e22big]

2 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

No, never seen something ugly like that. I also do mostly text and have never had anything to complain about.

I heard that ClearType helps a bit but I don't know how well this will work, especially across all the text editing applications that I used. Not sure how realistic is the picture above but if even a single one of them do render text like these, that's absolutely unusable to me (especially as a translator, I don't only work with English scrips)

 

It's a huge concern for me as the shop can't let me try their stuff before purchase and free return policy period isn't a thign outside of the US

[jones177]

 

49 minutes ago, e22big said:

Have you ever experienced a situation like in the image below where the BRG text rendering (TV) is significantly worse than those with RGB (monitor)

One of my OLEDs looks like that with YCbCr420 in the Nvidia control panel. Sometimes it defaults to that after a driver update and I have to reset it. My other OLED is the same model but never does it.

 

I only started using TVs as monitors in 2019 when I bought the first LG B9 OLED. 

I picked the 49" NanoCell 85 in 2020 because it is 120hz with HDMI 2.1 so 4k 120hz with a 30 series Nvidia card. The text quality was a bonus. If it had not worked out I would have gone back to using a 32" 4k monitor.