You're right. At 80 quid I expect no less than 4k and 144Hz refresh rates.

Edit: heat added btw

Don't be daft, the absolute bare minimum is 8K at 7680×4320 and that's if you're poor and have terrible eyesight. Really for £80 you should be getting 16k as standard with HDR. Dolby Atmos and a cherry on the top oh and 2000Hz refresh rate as minimum too.... I mean the human eye can barely percieve motion faster than 50Hz so you really need 1950Hz extra for safety margin.

Jebus on a bike :smile:

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Where do you shop Spanner??? For £80 you can get one of these in the sale..



No idea how much the tv would be though.. :smile:

You're joking right? Just in case you have never used a desktop/laptop PC (a distinct possibility with the youth of today):

By your standards the res on a 24" monitor should be 9504x5184. Like to see you read web pages (or most other content) comfortably at that resolution. But I'm sure full desktop web sites look wonderful on your 5 inch screen.

Good find op and plenty of good reviews on revoo, amazon etc at a higher price point :smirk:

Hard to grumble at that price, heated

Only full hd? My phone has 1440p and its 5 inches, this res over 24 must look bad

Actually the higher the resolution the more comfortable the reading experience, use scaling to make everything larger.

I've seen an Apple iMac retina and a non retina iMac side by sides, huge difference. There's no excuse in today's day and age for a computer monitor to have less pixels than my phone.

But scaling doesn't work well on many versions of Windows, and indeed in many applications. So with a super-high resolution screen you end up with tiny, unreadable icons and fonts, or big fonts that don't fit into the space allocated for them. Might not be an issue for OS/X - or perhaps even Windows 10 - but many of us still use Windows 7 and intend to for as long as Microsoft let us.

And in any case, big high resolution screens cost a lot more than little five-inch ones. You can get 4K 24 inch monitors, but not for 80 quid, and you won't for some time yet.

So what's the resolution of your TV screen?

But its the standard and unless your spending £300 on a graphics card then gaming at 1440p is really achievable, aswell as blu-ray and console gaming are all suited to a 1080p monitor. When you saw the two imacs side by side where was it? probably had the one set up badly just "empasize" an improvement.

You're right. At 80 quid I expect no less than 4k and 144Hz refresh rates.

Edit: heat added btw

Just want to point out aswell im not one of the people on here who seem to think higher resolutions are pointless unless you sit 10 cm from the screen, just clearly there are uses for 1080p

Great price for a 24'' monitor,heat added. if price of apple monitor ever come close to this,post it here :smirk:

Does it have Freesync, IPS and 144hz refresh rate? surely a must at this price point?

To be fair it's not as cut and dry as that, a decent modern operating system (like iOS/Android/OSX and to a lesser extent Windows 10) will support proper display scaling, which is why you can actually read your phone screen and why the 2560 × 1600 at 13 inches MacBook Pro display isn't impossible to read.

1080p at 24 inches isn't great; it's about the same pixels per inch as an awful 1366 x 768 at 17 inches, 22 inches is sort of the upper limit for 1080p. Above that 1440p should be considered.

Then again this is very much a budget display.

Don't be daft, the absolute bare minimum is 8K at 7680×4320 and that's if you're poor and have terrible eyesight. Really for £80 you should be getting 16k as standard with HDR. Dolby Atmos and a cherry on the top oh and 2000Hz refresh rate as minimum too.... I mean the human eye can barely percieve motion faster than 50Hz so you really need 1950Hz extra for safety margin.

Jebus on a bike :smile:

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Where do you shop Spanner??? For £80 you can get one of these in the sale..



No idea how much the tv would be though.. :smile:

You can read your phone screen when looking at a desktop site because you zoom in, not just because it's a higher ppi. Obviously the higher resolution makes everything look readable when you do zoom in, but to be fair it's not really a good comparison. Mainly because of the different distances you use them when using a monitor compared to a phone, not to mention the different uses (hence why it's not really a good comparison).

Previously I had a 3 x 24" (FHD) set-up and it worked well. I only changed to save physical desk space, not because it was of poor resolution to my eyes. To most people doing most things on a PC, 1080p is probably sufficient at 24 inches. Above that, I agree, a better resolution would be essential.

I have no personal experience with this screen so can't comment on it's quality (reviews do seem positive though) but we all know that there are also good and bad 1080p screens too, and that can make a huge difference in usability at this size/res..

Been waiting for a 24" monitor deal as my second monitor is starting to talk to me (blowing up)..

Heat!

If there's no excuse, why not develop and bring out your own super high resolution monitors?

There's a reason why your phone fits more pixels than monitors... because they are both completely different technologies. A monitor sized AMOLED type phone screen is extremely expensive to manufacture (as opposed to mobile sized variants which are much cheaper these days - hence Chinese phones flooding the market). I'm not even sure you can publicly buy one at the moment, but I know Dell are bringing a 30" one out and it's around £5,000!

I remember a few years ago you were looking at 5-digit figures for OLED monitors that were about 22"!

Can I get some advice please, I'm not really that familiar with monitors even though I have been looking for a while.

Would a monitor like this suffice for hooking my laptop up to for video editing and also to connect my PS4 to?

Realistically how likely would it be for me to find a FHD 24 inch, HDMI-input, IPS panel, with a response time lower than 6ms, at this price from a brand as well known as acer and a retailer as well known as ebuyer?

Thanks for any advice, I've been keeping my eyes open for a while but seems like I might have to settle for a TN as I'm struggling to find the above specs for under £100.

You're right, but you'd expect a 1440p resolution or higher for £79?

Also OLED technology still has screen burn in issues, including the Samsung AMOLED on phones.

I need a new monitor, but will wait for someone to price match. Never ordered from Ebuyer again because they use yodel which were a huge headache last time i bought something

On Scan.co.uk for £99.89
https://www.scan.co.uk/products/24-acer-g246hlbbid-monitor-1920x1080-2ms-250cd-m-d-sub-dvi-hdmi-black

Good timing for me. Thanks OP

not able to buy it. ebuyer keep cancelling the order right after purchased

I'd buy that for a dollar.

I wouldn't buy a Full HD monitor at this size, I would buy a smaller monitor if I didn't have the money for a larger and higher res one. Heck I can get work done just fine on a 12 inch screen because I'm good with window management and keyboard shortcuts.

My TV is 720P, 32 inches, and looks ****. I would definitely not want to use it as my computer monitor, web browsing etc

No need - High res monitors are already available

Yes, but your point was that if a 5" phone can be 1440p, then a 24" monitor should be much higher. But I was explaining they are different technologies. Also 1440" 24" monitors are nowhere near £80...

IMO 1080p on a 24" monitor is just fine. 27" is where it becomes distractingly obvious and you need 1440p

Also ultra high res on PC's ups the cost of every thing else. I've got a 1440p and 4K display setup. Spent silly money to play games at 4K resolution, only to now opt to play things on the 1440p screen because I've realised there's not much difference between 1440p and 4K visually (due to texture limitations), but the framerate hit is humongous.

It's relevant though because you posted your complaint on this deal. So it's clear then a 1080p LCD for £79 is fine and just because you don't want one doesn't make them irrelevant at this price.

You do realise the biggest difference between the Retina display non Retina is not only just 2560 res vs not even FHD res, but also the difference of IPS vs TN panel right? Go to PC World and have a look at a Toshiba laptop with a FHD IPS display and compare it to other laptops FHD with standard TN panel, and the IPS display will blow away the TN display just the same.

With that said though, I have to point out scaling is pretty rubbish for Windows 10...anything higher than 100%, it make things look blurry even at 125% scaling. That's not hardware's fault though...it is M$ to blame.

I recently bought the 27 inch version of this and think it's great. Personally I find 1080p is fine for my needs - web browsing, YouTube , excel, word. The PPI on this one would be better.

oh come come Mr Gentleman. Whilst gaming might not be "massive", are you trying to persuade the assembled that reading (even plain ol' web pages) on 4k is not a joy to behold?

OOS

​Yet you complained earlier about big screens at 1080p?! XD

I got mine today - I'll be interested to know if anyone else has the same issue - when flicking between display "modes" - ie ECO / Game / Standard, there is a hideous whine coming from the panel, which is also evident as soon as you drop the brightness down from 100%. The panel emits an electrical whine which is noticeable in a quiet room (and headache inducing). It's going back to eBuyer.