Dell Introduces World's First 49-Inch Curved Ultra-Wide Monitor With 5120x1440 Resolution

[Internet Enzyme]

To me, these ultra wide monitors are completely useless until they can make one with a 2160p height.

yeah, what we're dealing with here is a stretched out 1440p display. which sounds much less impressive, given that 1440p is one quarter the resolution of the 5K iMac display. This resolution doesn't provide any proper retina scaling ui sizes: no way in hell am i paying over $1k and only getting 720 vertical lines of display resolution with retina scaling
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Aspect ratio is nice, the rest is lame...
5k iMac x 2 would be nice, giving a curved 10240x2880 pixel Retina display with 500 nits, P3... this I'd call a monitor

hey, i mean my imac does support one external 5k display so this is feasible.

 

[christo747]

Can I ask a question?
Why is the resolution so low? After iPad and IPhone I‘ve been wanting to switch to HighRes on my desktop. So this monitor is just big but low res. Is my thinking wrong?

 

[ijlakw]

Not hating on this, but genuinely curious: is the curve thing just a gimmick or does it actually make the thing more useful?

Really good question. In my experience...you need your eyes located at what would be the geometric center of the arc of the screen (think of a circle and you're at the center)... then it works well because your eyes are equidistant from the screen at all times.

 

[patrickbarnes]

Never going to see any innovation like this from Apple. Too bad.

Who wants a 1440p monitor? It’s 1x and not retina.

 

[RC Mike]

Not hating on this, but genuinely curious: is the curve thing just a gimmick or does it actually make the thing more useful?

They idea is to try to make the focal distance the same, to reduce eye strain from constantly refocusing as you look around the display. Mine is the older, slightly less-curved radius. I like it.
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Who wants a 1440p monitor? It’s 1x and not retina.

1440p is a really comfortable resolution to use a monitor that tall. Most folks don't use a Retina display without the scaling that's built into Mac OS. Text and objects would be far too tiny.

 

[ignatius345]

Really good question. In my experience...you need your eyes located at what would be the geometric center of the arc of the screen (think of a circle and you're at the center)... then it works well because your eyes are equidistant from the screen at all times.

I can definitely see that for monitors where there's (usually) a single person at the center of the arc viewing it -- less so on TVs, though, where there are potentially a lot of different vantage points in a room.

 

[CodexMonkey]

To me, these ultra wide monitors are completely useless until they can make one with a 2160p height.

Waiting on this... though not as wide...
https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-34WK95U-W-ultrawide-monitor

 

[ignatius345]

Relatively low color gamut, but more importantly… just 109 ppi. Very far from Retina.

Whoa. I think that's on par with my MacBook Air. I'm willing to accept that dot pitch on this little machine for what it's used for, but I'd definitely not buy a brand-new desktop monitor that grainy.

 

[McG2k1]

About $500 overpriced, but I’d love to try one with Media Composer or Premiere.

 

[Christoffee]

Does it work on portrait?

 

[johncarync]

Unless you have a specific need for a very wide but not very tall screen, it makes more sense to get the 43" 4K monitor they sell. It's about half the price and has almost 1 million more pixels.

 

[justperry]

And then there's astetics, think this monitor is Fugly.

 

[CodexMonkey]

About $500 overpriced, but I’d love to try one with Media Composer or Premiere.

What are you pitching it against, price-wise? If you know of an equivalent, or something even close, for around $1000, let us know!!

 

[chucker23n1]

Can I ask a question?
Why is the resolution so low? After iPad and IPhone I‘ve been wanting to switch to HighRes on my desktop. So this monitor is just big but low res. Is my thinking wrong?

Desktop monitors can afford to have much lower ppi than mobile ones, because your viewing distance will be much higher.

That said, this one has fairly mediocre ppi even by desktop standards.
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Unless you have a specific need for a very wide but not very tall screen, it makes more sense to get the 43" 4K monitor they sell. It's about half the price and has almost 1 million more pixels.

Or, if 1x is really OK for you, just buy two U2715H 16:9 2160x1440 displays for a total of $950, and put them next to each other. Same resolution as the 49-inch Dell.
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Whoa. I think that's on par with my MacBook Air.

Not really comparable; desktop displays tend to have low ppi. (The 13-inch MacBook Air has 128 ppi, which really isn't that great for a laptop.)

But, at its price tag, one can perhaps hope for a little more.

 

[TheralSadurns]

LG has a 34” Ultrawide monitor with 5120 x 2160 resolution, and Thunderbolt 3. $1,500.

Which still doesn't do you any good at 163dpi.

You need around 110 for standard resolution and 220 for hidpi retina @2x. Otherwise you end up with ugly non native scaling and flickering lines. Or Ginormous content.

 

[jimothyGator]

Which still doesn't do you any good at 163dpi.

You need around 110 for standard resolution and 220 for hidpi retina @2x. Otherwise you end up with ugly mom native scaling and flickering lines. Or Ginormous content.

Hey, leave Mom out of this!

 

[alphaod]

Unless you have a specific need for a very wide but not very tall screen, it makes more sense to get the 43" 4K monitor they sell. It's about half the price and has almost 1 million more pixels.

I saw the 43" monitor the other day... it's freaking enormous and honestly unless it's sitting like 3-4 feet from your face, you need to turn your head a lot. In fact it's perfect for that screen shot you have in that image, looking at say four windows on your terminal mounted far way, but otherwise for day to day use for the regular person I feel it's horrendous.

 

[BWhaler]

Serious question: what's a use case for this? I can sort of see video timelines, but struggling to see the value.

 

[dogslobber]

This will be cool when I programming spreadsheets!

 

[intmarine]

Never going to see any innovation like this from Apple. Too bad.

I love me the smell of sarcastic remarks like that...as if what I am looking at on my iMac doesn't far outstrip the Dell unit – P3, and actually able to do Cinema 4K, which is 4096x2160

 

[TheralSadurns]

Which still doesn't do you any good at 163dpi.

You need around 110 for standard resolution and 220 for hidpi retina @2x. Otherwise you end up with ugly non native scaling and flickering lines. Or Ginormous content.

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Hey, leave Mom out of this!

mom = non
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[rafark]

I've got one of their earlier 34" ultra-wides sitting next to my Apple 27" Cinema. The Dell isn't as nice of a screen, but it's a gem for what it is. If I could justify the 49", I'd pick it up in a heartbeat. There's never enough screen real estate, and if you can get more space on one uninterrupted screen--oh, that's nice.

How do you even go from one corner of the screen to the other?

 

[snipper]

What are you pitching it against, price-wise? If you know of an equivalent, or something even close, for around $1000, let us know!!

What Johncarync says. Also, there is the Philips BDM4037UW. It's a 4K, 40" slightly curved monitor. Very nice monitor for ± $ 625.

It's obviously slightly 'smaller' that the 43" Dell. I traded the flat 40" Philips in for the curved one, but both are great monitors.

Oh, and i'ts almost 110 ppi. It's really enough imho.

 

[macduke]

Would rather have retina anything vs this. But as soon as retina ultrawide happens I’ll be all over it. Otherwise all I see here is a huge 5K iMac cut in half.

 

[code-m]

Would rather have retina anything vs this. But as soon as retina ultrawide happens I’ll be all over it. Otherwise all I see here is a huge 5K iMac cut in half.

8K is where it’s at, when is it being announced.

The higher the resolution the closer you want to sit to appreciate all those details. Seems fitting for a monitor.