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When you rotate the display the image quality drops significantly. The change in hue is very high on the vertical and you'll notice it even if you don't pay att
by crististm 14y ago
When you rotate the display the image quality drops significantly. The change in hue is very high on the vertical and you'll notice it even if you don't pay attention.
- cfn 14y agoWhat you say is true if you rotate the cheaper TN based monitors. I have a Dell 24' monitor in portrait mode and it looks just fine as it is an IPS monitor.
- 4ad 14y agoI also have one Dell and one HP IPS monitor in portrait mode and they don't look fine at all. They are barely acceptable. There's no hue degradation, but there's a huge contrast degradation plus font subpixel rendering is broken.
- cfn 14y agoI do see a difference between the portrait monitor and the others (it seats between two TN 24' Samsungs) but it is perfectably acceptable for writing code.
- wr1472 14y agoCheaper TN panels are better at fast moving graphics (video games for example), but have a poor viewing angle. More expensive IPS panels have a better viewing angle, but not as good at moving graphics. I have a Dell IPS panel, which I specifically bought to use in portrait mode.
- DanBC 14y agoYou can buy portrait-mode monitors. They're made for niche markets and specialist use, and thus are somewhat expensive. See, for example, the NEC MD213MG, which has a 4:3 aspect ratio, with 2048 x 1536 resolution. This is a 10 bit greyscale monitor used for xray viewing. (30 mS response time and a UA TFT panel.) Or the NEC MD301C4 which is 16:10 with 2560 x 1600 and a P-IPS panel. (6 mS response time.) (This is, I think, about $2.5k to $3k.)