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40" Display 1080p - How dose eve look?
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Jame Jarl Retief
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#21 - 2012-04-12 02:22:59 UTC
Looks fine on a 42" HDTV.

Though it loses some of its charm, I think. What I mean is, on the monitor everything looks so tiny and detailed, but blown up to nearly twice the size, you can see that a lot of it is just visual deception as details you can't really make out on the monitor are blown up and clearly visible on HDTV.

Having said that, in some games huge screen is a godsend. BF3 is a good example. I started playing it on a regular monitor, and when someone was sticking his head out of the bushes about 200m away, on a monitor barely a pair of pixels changed, you couldn't really make out if it was a head or just a shadow, you had to take a shot to find out, potentially giving your position away. On a large HDTV, you can really make out if it's a head or not. My performance went up dramatically.

Bottom line, for me, it was VERY worth it. Though some games have to be played sitting relatively close to it, and some you have to sit WAAAY back. For example, if I try to play Mass Effect 3 at the distance I play EVE at, I get physically nauseous in minutes.
Cobalt Rookits
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#22 - 2012-04-12 02:32:15 UTC
I use a 37" 1080p LCD , which gets me a 1920x1080 resolution. I quite like it for EVE, but with the caveat that you need to have an increased distance from the screen, or it will give you eyestrain. I'm ok because I have a really deep desk, but a normal walmart special computer desk would completely suck for it. So long as you use the NATIVE resolution text is absolutely fine.
leviticus ander
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#23 - 2012-04-12 03:02:23 UTC
I'd say you should go dual 27"-30" 2560X1600 monitors. probably the best image you could possibly get without costing more than a new car.
Mathias Hex
#24 - 2012-04-12 03:25:59 UTC
I play on a 56" HDTV looks amazing at 1080p but I usually play in windowed mode with 2-3 clients running fits 2 clients side by side with a about 2" of overlap it automatically scales down. Never changed resolution from 1080p. One client in fullscreen is pretty epic, tried playing on my second 19" moniter once while watching a new movie on the big screen was pretty lacking to say the least.

I can read text just fine in windowed or full screen never adjusted UI or anything I dont know about everyone else. Picture doesnt look stretched or anything like that I think it's perfect. It's a vizio tv and I'm connected with HDMI never had to adjust a thing since I hooked it up, just the way I like it!

Also I'm playing on high settings and I think the details are the same as a small moniter. Only time I can see the individual pixels or whatever is when I zoom in on stars, stations and ships all look pretty amazing.

I recall one night in a nightclub called the matrix, there I was... Mother of god there I am! Holy f**k.
Vetorept Fera
Doomheim
#25 - 2012-04-12 03:28:59 UTC
I play on a 42" plasma and it's the bomb.com

Just make sure you use the native resolution of the display. Mine is 1280x1024, I could go like 2560x2048 but it looks all crazy. Native resolution works like a charm.

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Kengutsi Akira
Doomheim
#26 - 2012-04-12 03:33:08 UTC
Id like to try it on a 3d monitor tho, wonder if theres any support

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Cassi Watson
Farscape Creations
#27 - 2012-04-12 04:28:10 UTC
I have Two identical 22" Samsung, but I really wanted to look into Epicness and currently i'm playing on my Asus G74 laptop on my bed and that is a 17" display. Id move the 22"'s to a stand at the foot of my bed but they are currently hooked up to my Linux system at my desk, the G74 has a HDMI output for one extra display and I was thinking of putting that on a 40".

Now do any of you know what the difference between a Large Format Display and an actually HDTV other then internal tuners and TV/Video watching features?
Minister of Death
Doomheim
#28 - 2012-04-12 04:35:10 UTC
leviticus ander wrote:
I'd say you should go dual 27"-30" 2560X1600 monitors. probably the best image you could possibly get without costing more than a new car.


I play on that, 30". It's mildly epic.
Never tried it on a tv.
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