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posted by Fnord666 on Friday April 07 2017, @06:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the neck-pain dept.

Samsung has two upcoming ultra-wide displays on its roadmap:

For readers on the leading-edge of monitor configurations, ultra-wide displays in the 21:9 aspect ratio have been on the radar for about two years. These are monitors that have a 2560x1080 display, stretching the horizontal dimension of a standard 1920x1080 Full-HD monitor and make it easier to display modern cinema widescreen format content with less black bars. They are also claimed to assist with peripheral vision when gaming beyond a standard 1920x1080 display, or when curved, help with immersive content.

So chalk up some surprise when we hear that Samsung has an even wider format panel in the works. 3840x1080 represents a 32:9 aspect ratio, and the report states that this will be a VA panel with 1800R curvature and a 3-side frameless design. Putting that many pixels in a large display gives a relatively low 81.41 PPI. This panel will be part of Samsung's 'Grand Circle' format, and by supporting up to 144 Hz it is expected that variants of this panel will be included with FreeSync/GSYNC technologies. One figure to note would be the contrast ratio – 5000:1 (static), which TFTCentral states is higher than current Samsung VA panels.

The 3840×1080 display is 49 inches. Samsung is also planning to launch a 44-inch 3840×1200 display.

Is this aspect ratio a good idea or a step backwards? It is like two 1920×1080 displays without the bezels in the middle. What about the "1800R curvature"?

[1800R curvature] means that the circle that defines the curvature of the panel has a radius of 1800 mm (70.866 inches), which is much tighter than other panels on the market (2700R or 3000R typical).


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @07:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @07:06PM (#490447)

    Well there's the rub. Windows was ahead of the curve in 2009 for offering an easy way to tile windows side-by-side on a single display, but the other tiling features in Windows are not easy to find and very inflexible. OS X does not come with a tiling solution at all.

    "Ahead of the curve in 2009"? While tiling window management has been with us in one form or another since the 80s, the tiling wm renaissance started around 2000-2001 with ion and larswm.

    WRT Windows specifically, Windows 1.0 was tiling only. Windows 3.1 (the earliest one I remember) use floating window management, but had the options to "tile vertically" or "tile horizontally" in the window menu. In 95/NT4 this moved to the taskbar context menu, and remained there through XP. In Vista, it was renamed "side-by-side" and "stacked", but same place, same functionality. I haven't used 7 and newer much, so maybe they hid these options, but they certainly were not hard to find in prior versions. (Inflexible is right; that's what you get when you try to bolt functionality on afterwards.)

    But this can be a lesson to all readers: there is such a thing as a tiling window manager for Windows and for OS X, and it can get rid of all the fiddling with window positioning.

    I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or useless. Are you implying there is no such thing, or sincerely declaring there is such a thing, but for some reason not offering any pointers to those looking for it? Either way it seems like a shitty lesson, especially since searching for "tiling window managers windows" has obvious issues.

    Perhaps this [reddit.com] would be a helpful start for anyone using Windows, and seeking proper tiled window management. And OS X users might start here [stackexchange.com]. I'm sure any Windows or OS X users reading SN comments already have their own reasons for not switching OSes (and between systemd these days, and the "everything not ubuntu-shaped is just too hard for newbies" meme, I can hardly blame them anyway), so I won't beat that dead horse.

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