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The ppi race is the new megapixel race. Who needs pixel perfection 200 ppi beyond what the human eye can perceive? No one. But the show must go on.
by frogpelt 13y ago
The ppi race is the new megapixel race.
Who needs pixel perfection 200 ppi beyond what the human eye can perceive? No one. But the show must go on.
- zokier 13y agoWell 1080p is nice in that it is quite widespread standard and as such eg display cloning from your phone to a desktop monitor/tv/projector should be trivial. Also you can play media content without needing to downscale (albeit this is fairly minor advantage).
- mappum 13y agoJust because you can't perceive individual pixels doesn't mean you can't perceive higher quality. Imagine if you wanted to draw a human hair to scale, you would need some small pixels to make that look good. However in most smartphone use cases, that's probably not an issue.
- solistice 13y agoIn that particular use case, what stops you from laying an actual human hair onto your screen? I just had to take one of it, so they go there out of their own volition.
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- guidopallemans 13y agoIt has come really far when my new phone has a higher pixel ratio than my two-year-old 15 inch laptop
- nooneelse 13y agoWhat the human eye can perceive is dependent on the distance between the eye and the screen. Perhaps some people like to hold the screen very close.
- thirdsun 13y agoIndeed - I'd rather have more battery life.
- devindotcom 13y ago245 ppi is nowhere near what the human eye can perceive. You can make all kinds of assumptions about view distance and so on, but higher resolution is almost always a better thing when rendering text, rich content, and so on. You kind of sound like the people of the past who said "we'll never need a terabyte of storage" or "256 MB of RAM is enough for anyone" and so on.
- theschwa 13y agoThere is definitely a need for high ppi screens as new VR devices like the Oculus Rift come out.
- light3 13y agoIts quite funny how the smartphone revolution will finally make VR devices viable.
- bencoder 13y agoOculus Rift style VR devices need screens with even higher density. I'm glad the show is continuing.