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got about £200 anyone got any suggestions of what brand is the one to go for? cheers |
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pick up one with an onu resolution |
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whats that one? |
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was just kind of an abstract post, sorry i thought it passed unnoticed |
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ah ok lol |
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get a used one from a pawn shop for 1/10th the price, if its even legal for people to sell or buy things outside the oligopoly anymore |
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you mean ones that's fell of the back of the lorry, yeah i'll have to have a think |
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people used to ask me for advice like this; more generally on PCs. i used to be on top of it. now, shit changes every six weeks, and i don't really keep up any more. i've had good luck with asus, but, heck, maybe they've had a bad run the last nine months? i'm afraid you just have to research what is currently on the market and doesn't suck. more or less, for general "build quality," use the internet. engadget and ifixit get neck-deep in that and "oh what monitor should i buy" is now officially covered way better elsewhere. with displays, it's one of the few things i actually will shop at a big-box store for. more or less, if it's a fucking photo on amazon, you don't know how the picture looks. so, yeah, not only research what doesn't suck, but go to some store, whatever england does in place of "best buy" and squint at the monitors; decide what looks most agreeable to your eyes. but, ideally, informed by some research w/rt what will not break |
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i opted for an in-between, recently. not off the back of the lorry, not top-shelf. i went to walmart and went to the cheap end of the spectrum; bought the cheapest one that doesn't look like shit. it is shit, the resolution is shit, but it's 32" or something and cost me less than $150. i actually need to buy another, more proper monitor myself. this was just an extra display for watching star trek or whatev |
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yeah good advice cheers, yes I used to try and keep up but as you said the rate of change in technology is so quick there is no point unless your selling the thing, almost anything is guaranteed to be better to what im currently using |
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oh, sure, moore's law, whatever. i've never tried to stay on the bleeding edge of hardware, because it's a waste of money. always has been... but, now, it's even faster. the old jokes -- weird al's "but it it was obsolete before i opened the box" are more true than ever. especially now that tech is fashion, in a sense, with gold-edition iphones. but, yeah -- real takeaway is that there are a lot of review sites that will literally take these things apart, as they come out every two weeks, and say whether it's crap or not, and that is a genuine service given the pace and instability of what's good and what's crap. |
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I remember my gfs parents pavlovian response when 3d TVs came out, and I was thinking aren't they just happy with the 60 inch tv they have now, my brother was using his tv from 1985 for about 25 years |
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i have... i think i still have... a collection of crusty old CCD to RCA cameras. they all have different tones and colors to them. TVs had a similar quality, in the CRT days. anyone remember the two incredibly thin lines all trinitron monitors had, roughly, dividing the display into thirds? it was wires, holding the screen on |
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meanwhile, can you even do color-correction on TVs at all? all this $15k 80" nonsense and your colors might be wack as shit |
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Make sure it has a resolution of at least 1,136 pixlels across or you may not be able to view the full width of the xltronic update. |
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You can get some decent monitors 200 quid. Do you want a big one (like 23" plus) one with a high refresh rate for playing quake at 120 FPS, highest resolution etc? |
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Never ever buy the cheapest one they do in Argos though. I did that and regretted it massively |
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güsync is also a thing to get rid of tearing without input lag |
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that was supposed to be g-sync |
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Thanks for the replies guys, yes I think I will get a slightly larger one as my eye sight is started to deteriorate a bit I reckon, probably wont be long until I need glasses like my brother |
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I will look into g sync, I have a nvidia graphics card so perhaps it will be useful to get a compatible monitor |
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yeah our big Samsung tv you can alter the colours to your hearts content, I assume it standard I don't know, ideally id like a bit CRT sony monitor for my old retro games as using filters on emulators doesn't look quite right, but im not going to shell out for something I would use infrequently Also cos american TVs used the NTSC standard they used to have a tint control on them didnt they, |
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something that has a decent refresh rate yeah, I don't know if I will even play quake at 120fps so I guess larger screen is what im looking for, but not ludicrously large like some ive seen |
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I read a story on Reddit about a maker who designed a custom 4x10 array of iPhones to be used as a monitor which I thought was fucking epic |
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