Philips introduces the world's first quantum dot monitor

[Barkotron]

And being rude, will you really notice those 120 missing vertical pixels in going down from 1920x1200 to 1080p?

Personally, I do.

I was bypassing 90% of monitors looking at an upgrade.

At 27", 1080p just doesn't cut it when I'm sitting at best 2-3 feet away. The pixels are just too chunky.

[canopus72]

I only care about three things - picture quality, price and if there is going to be a 144Hz version.

[jas88]

Erm, for quite a lot of laptop displays 1080p would be a step up - e.g. the laptop that I'm typing this on is a "marvellous" (sarcasm) 1440x900. And being rude, will you really notice those 120 missing vertical pixels in going down from 1920x1200 to 1080p?

I'm prepared to give Philips a pass on this, mainly because QD IS new tech, so you'd expect mainstream resolutions before they try the 4K nonsense.

Yes, I certainly do notice my screen getting more than 10% smaller vertically - particularly for coding, where height is often more useful than width (to the extent I've seen a few people adopting portrait monitors now).

More than that, though, is the principle: it represents a step down in capability, and I'm just not used to that happening in computing. What would you think if Intel proudly launched their latest processor as "it's only 10% slower than the previous generation!"? I can't imagine that being a big seller somehow, but with laptops, all the decent resolutions got pulled off the market for years, replaced with TV crap.

I started out using a TV for a monitor on my Acorn Electron. I didn't expect to be pushed back there 30 years later, just because TVs had almost but not quite caught up with computer monitors! I'd spent all those 30 years getting higher resolutions each step: VGA's 640x480, to SVGA 800x600, 1280x1024, 1920x1200 or thereabouts: I don't want to be dragged backwards and marketed at as if it's some new achievement!

Yes, I can understand Philips starting with a lower resolution for a new technology - heck, they probably prototyped it in the lab with a single dot that changed colour, then something like a 64x64 grid to experiment with, before getting to anything you could call a monitor of any sort - I just hope they get round to offering decent resolutions soon.

[Spreadie]

1080p on 27" = poor pixel density. That aggressive price point will have to be pretty bloody aggressive to get people on board.

Also, echoing others, both my monitors at home are 16:10, 1920x1200 & 2560x1600, but my work monitor is 1080p. The difference is definitely noticeable.