As I age I have the start of Cataracts, not bad enough for the op yet.  But I need a new monitor, at present I have a 21.5 (22) 1080 monitor and was wondering whether to get a 27 1080 or a 27 1440 monitor.

 

I am assuming that a 27 1080 will just give me the same content but with everything scaled up slightly which should help with focusing through the cataracts, but am I right in assuming that a 1440 will give a greater screen area but with everything shown slightly smaller, if sharper, which I think will make it more difficult to view as the Cataracts slowly get worse.

 

Not sure I need more screen area as the current 1080 covers everything I need to see.  I do use the PC for occasional photo and video editing but mainly for Email, office etc.

 

Any feedback from other Cataract sufferers or techies appreciated as I am not sure how the different pixel densities actually relate to the size and sharpness of the screen and I can not find anywhere locally to go and see the difference.

You should be able to change the sizes of fonts and images within the accessibility settings in Windows.

 

You're not saying which version you are using but there are guides for most of them (Apple as well if needed).

 

https://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/windows10/

http://www.howtogeek.com/223319/how-to-manage-accessibility-features-in-windows-10/

http://www.windowscentral.com/how-make-text-apps-bigger-windows-10

 

 

You should be able to increase font sized without worrying about pixel densities etc. I'd have a go with that before buying a new monitor at great expense.

Once you have more space you wonder how you managed before

 

Building on the last reply, if you are doing photo/video work a good IPS display will help on colours.

 

They are a bit more expensive than a cheaper TN panel. It's the TN ones that you'll see for silly money on promotional emails normally. you can tell what you have by tilting or moving to one side of the monitor, it should disappear/change colour quite radically.

 

The IPS ones don't do this as much, so a better viewing angle as well. 

 

27" is a good size for 1440p, you can get them in 25" form too, but quite small, very sharp tough. I have 1440p in three forms. 

 

25"

27"

34"

 

The 27" is in a box awaiting a good home and at 5years old the worest of the lot due to the antiglare coating being quite coarse...makes everyhint a little rougher than newer ones.

The 25" I use when standing, I'm more alert and can bear the sharper, smaller fonts. I also use a larger font when software coding and chrome etc set to 110% so I'm saying I prefer larger fonts for reading/working, but tollerate smaller system fonts, stuff I know what it is and don't read it. The 34" is a productivity monitor, toolwindows and non essentials are on the edges, leaving the core, about a 2540 equiv area free for work.

 

I prefer the look of the 25. Worth noting also the 25/27's will change where you have your monitor. Important if you've got no space or a need to be exact. I also have screen work glasses and they are pretty darn fussy with my eyes at different times of the day. Normally when I'm tired or it's not lit up very well. I tend to run the panels at about 30% brightness or lower. I also run an application called flux or flu.x which alters the whiteness during the day to a lovely red colour as night falls. Terrible for photo work, excellent for anything white background, like reading, writing, web browsing.

 

I'll also add, some of the high resolution 'retina' if you like screens, when run at lower resolutions can be very sharp. Very easy on the eye's, if a little costly!

 

I'd personally consider a dell, brought online, can be returned easily and some have zero dead pixel warranty. Most online suppliers would be able to advise you on returns if you ask.

 

The other thing to bear in mind, but should be a non-issue, the bigger the screen and higher resolution will tax your machine a little more. It should be fine, my 2010 laptop copes with all of the above and they are all outside it's supported resolutions.

 

Hope that adds something helpful for you.

 

C.

It depends on your vision frankly. If you need larger icons, then a larger screen with the same resolution will be easier for you.

If you want the option for higher resolution and don't mind the fuzzieness that may appear when run at 1080p, then the higher resolution is better.

I had the cateracts removed from both my eyes in June last year and plastic lenses inserted.

Before the operation I wore contact lenses and I had no problem in seeing our 14" laptop screen or the 19" desktop screen. Neither are any more than the standard resolution and are certsinly not 1440dpi.

 

The main difference that I found after the operations was how bright the colours were. Cateracts put a yellow tinge on all the colours that I saw so much so that I argued with my wife about the colour of some of my clothes. It was very apparent when I had had one eye done and a setee that I saw in somebody's garden looked purple with the "new" eye and brown through the eye with the cateract.

Thanks for the feedback,  I will try playing with the settings on my current monitor to see if I can stick with it but a 27 1080 might be the way to go unless my eyes stabilise till I can afford surgery.

Try before you buy (if possible), the various coatings used by different makers can make a HUGE difference, both my old works office PC and my mothers PC had screens I found almost unreadable - despite have acreage and rez similar to mine.

 

Dont forget that, as well as icon/text size; Windows has options for high contrast icons and text in the "Accessibility" menu.

If you have Windows 8 or newer, get a Dell Ultrasharp U2515 they're not the cheapest but they're excellent monitors

 

With the 200% scaling, it'd be more than big enough to show everything but not missing out on the detail and colours.

Good luck with the ops- message from OH ,who's had both done, is that the thought of the op ,is far worse than the operation itself. I will always remember her next day words, when she saw the world in true vision, in one eye after years of seeing it through layers of muck. But ,beware, sometimes the old eye muscles mean that in a few years ( as has happened to her) ,you might need specs to read/ see distant things again, but in full vision, and there's always a shutter effect, if they don't get all the old muck out.

As I age I have the start of Cataracts, not bad enough for the op yet.  But I need a new monitor, at present I have a 21.5 (22) 1080 monitor and was wondering whether to get a 27 1080 or a 27 1440 monitor.

 

I am assuming that a 27 1080 will just give me the same content but with everything scaled up slightly which should help with focusing through the cataracts, but am I right in assuming that a 1440 will give a greater screen area but with everything shown slightly smaller, if sharper, which I think will make it more difficult to view as the Cataracts slowly get worse.

 

Not sure I need more screen area as the current 1080 covers everything I need to see.  I do use the PC for occasional photo and video editing but mainly for Email, office etc.

 

Any feedback from other Cataract sufferers or techies appreciated as I am not sure how the different pixel densities actually relate to the size and sharpness of the screen and I can not find anywhere locally to go and see the difference.

 

 

Whilst equipment is important, it's more important to not wait until the NHS want to fix you.

I hope the operation fixes things nicely.

 

If you want a massive 1080p screen I've got a 37" Panasonic lcd tv you that I've used for playing a flight simulator on that I'd be happy to sell cheaply. If your desk is big enough and large pixels help, these are pretty big. It's an IPS so colours don't shift too much with viewing angle, though the contrast is maybe only 1000:1.

 

No worries if not. Richer Sounds sell a new "Hisense" 40" 1080p tv for £220   http://www.richersounds.com/product/tv---all/hisense/40-inch/hise-ltdn40d36tuk  though I can't say how good it is.

HiSense are BIG Chinese manufacturer, so it will probably be a pretty decent - but not top notch TV; they are trying to break into the European market, so pitching good quality as low as they can afford to sell it.

 

As with many Chinese makes though, reliability is a bit of an unknown.

I have a 27" Dell 1440 monitor, looking at it as I type I run it from a Laptop running windows 7 using a display port and I have had nothing to do to make everything work fine. I view at 150% generally as it fills the screen nicely (the monitor is a 16x9 I think?) and I don't have to wear reading glasses until late in the day when I'm a tad tired. I can thoroughly recommend Dells monitors, the one I'm using is a full sRGB colour gamut one and is probably a bit more than you need, but check out the prices at Laptops Direct. Like a lot of monitors, Dell's generally come with lots of inputs and have a USB 3 hub installed. The only downside is there is no speaker included (hardly a deal breaker)

 

Heres a linky to them and the monitor I am currently using for Brisky

 

 

just re-read the OP's post. If you do a spot of Photo and Video editing, then I can definitely recommend this monitor and it's siblings. sRGB will be spot on for you (no need for full RGB).

Edited 2 September, 20169 yr by Lady Elanore