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📣 smrtinsert

What ultrawide do you use for coding and photo/video editing?


I'd like to upgrade from my 27 inch and I tried the Samsung Odyssey g8 OLED, but the font rendering was just not acceptable. I guess that will probably bias me towards VA or IPS. My current Samsung is a VA, but it's been a while since I've purchased a new monitor so I'm not sure which brand/type is the frontrunner these days for general purpose.

I'd really like decent color for photo and video editing and great font support. Ideally it has DVI and HDMI ports

  👤 ricardobeat Accepted Answer ✓
There is currently no great option for a ultrawide with enough DPI for comfortable photo work (or even coding depending on what you're used to). Especially if you also want it to have a high refresh rate.

Even for non-wide, only a handful of <24" QHD options exist and they are not great in terms of features - typing this from an AOC Q24G2A. The panels for this simply are not being made. And on the higher end of the spectrum, even a 5K ultrawide like the LG 34WK95U only has ~160dpi vs the ~220dpi of a Mac Studio monitor, and it's still 60hz.

For daily work, I settled on the compromise of a vertically mounted 32" 4k monitor. It gives me the equivalent of three stacked 21" 2160x1280 screens at near 140dpi. Then I have the AOC on the side for occasional gaming.

👤 MichaelMug
I currently use 3x 48” LG OLED C2 instead of an ultrawide. Arranged something like this: \_/