Acer's New UHD Monitor is a Little More Affordable
Acer's CB280HK has been spotted in Europe for a very attractive price.
4K monitors are hitting the market like a summer insect infestation, and although not all 4K monitors are created equal, one commonality is that they are all rather expensive. But a new monitor from Acer appears to take a step in the right (read: cheaper) direction.
The Acer CB280HK is a 28-inch monitor, and while it has only been spotted in Europe, it is listed there for pre-order at around €500. This is a bit less than almost all competing monitors, at least in Europe, for what looks like a similar-performing unit. It has a 3840 x 2160 resolution, is driven by a TN panel, has LED backlighting, a 1000:1 static contrast ratio, and a 1 ms gray-to-gray response time. Although the TN panel is an 8-bit + HiFRC panel capable of displaying 1.07 billion colors, it can only cover 72 percent of the NTSC color space.
Connectivity is provided by an HDMI 1.4 port, DisplayPort 1.2, Mini-DisplayPort 1.2 and a DVI port. Acer is even generous enough to fit the monitor with a very capable stand that lets you adjust the monitor's height, pivot, swivel and tilt – something not found on most competing monitors. It even looks like it has a 100 mm VESA mount.
No exact word on availability just yet, but hopefully this one will also make it to the U.S.
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4k 60hz, maybe. 4k 120hz, we are all dreaming a bit too much now
Cheaper 4K panels are great, but a quality 1440 at 120Hz is still the sweet spot for me and my gaming rig for at least another year (well maybe the 3440x1440 monster from LG!)
HDMI 2.0 won't even do 4k@120Hz - it's only about as fast as DisplayPort 1.2. DP1.3 will do it, but the spec isn't even finalized yet.
The reason I want 120hz is so that it supports G-Sync, meaning I would have a 4K monitor that I wouldn't have to worry too much about graphics power with. Because of the G-Sync, I could grow into running 4K, 120hz, as GPUs came around that could do that in a single card.
That's a fair point, but my wish was for long term.
If this thing were to happen short term, it would have to use the same thing that early 4k displays did and stitch the picture together with a pair of DP 1.2 connections. Though that would probably wreak havoc with the G-sync module, unless they used two of them and were left with a monitor more expensive than the average gaming computer.
*heavy breathing*
I'm just excited to see 4k resolution starting to pick up a tad bit of momentum to push the GPU makers to strive to create more powerful hardware. Even though their pretty powerful now, how long did it take for an 8800 GTX to become obsolete?
You will also be in the squinting crowd with a 30" 4k display. Scale all you want.... you will have a headache after 45 minutes. You need to be over 50" @ 4k, minimum.
The idea of planting yourself in front of a 50", 4k display to game on is a little crazy and probably won't happen in any meaningful numbers. I'd much rather have an Oculus Rift with full integration into game AND web development, going forward.
ever hear of DPI scaling, retard?
You will also be in the squinting crowd with a 30" 4k display. Scale all you want.... you will have a headache after 45 minutes. You need to be over 50" @ 4k, minimum.
not all of us are running <mod edit> operating systems
ever hear of DPI scaling, retard?
You will also be in the squinting crowd with a 30" 4k display. Scale all you want.... you will have a headache after 45 minutes. You need to be over 50" @ 4k, minimum.
not all of us are running <mod edit> operating systems
You quoted my scaling comment.... But I guess you didn't read it. Here it is one more time for you. Scale all you want.... you will have a headache after 45 minutes. You need to be over 50" @ 4k, minimum
Your sensitivity on this issue is rather alarming..... I hope you're not a gun nut.
I would guess you're naming Windows 7 as the <mod edit> OS because Win 8.1 will let you scale away the resolution you just bought?