On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 8:39 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > > | From: Nicholas Krause via talk <[email protected]> > > | Readability of text is what I was talking about not just color contrast. > > OK. Most but not all TV sets are fine for this. I would not trust > the RGBW displays but I haven't tried them. > > Also: go for IPS or VBA technology. > > I think that I mentioned this in my Lightning Talk. > > | A lot of people assume that reading text is the same on all monitors, > | it isn't and a lot of the pro level displays are better at this. > > "pro level" sounds like a marketing term. Perhaps you mean: very > expensive, aimed at professional _____. Photographers? > Videographers? "Prosumers"? Traders? Programmers? Engineers? > Architects? > > | Your free > | to disagree that matters. However in my view it does help. > > Opinions can be refined by research. That's what I've tried to > contribute to, on this list and my talk. > > | In addition I was also hinting at how well dpi is implemented at a higher > | resolution, which does matter. Scaling for a higher resolution in text > | is very much dependent on this. For whatever reason better dpi scaling > | and text scaling almost always goes hand in hand with better color contrast. > > If you are letting your monitor do scaling you are doing it wrong. > You should let your computer do that. > > One exception: if a computer only does 1920x1080, you can let a > TV/monitor double the pixels in each dimension. This is dumb in the > long term but sometimes you need to do it for a short time (eg. to > adjust firmware settings in a server). (It's really annoying to not > be able to see text during POST and the subsequent startup.) > > Scaling TV or movies is an interesting problem since it extends into > the 4th dimension (time). You really don't want to get into that with > a monitor. In fact, you want to turn off any multi-frame processing > that a TV does because it will add latency to the display. > > | My point is that most people focus on certain things like resolution > | without all the details. > > True. Again, this is why my talk was "what I've learned about > UltraHD". Actual experience is enlightening. Reading specs is > important but not sufficient. Ergonomics is full of surprises. One > of them is: not everyone is the same. That's why I tried to frame my > talk as about me :-) > ---
To Mr Hugh (hope I have that correct!) Looked in my email fine and search doesn't return anything appropriate for GTALug + lightening talk. Would you be able to provide a link so that I might 'see' such? (Distance makes personal attendance somewhat challenging!) Regards --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
