This is so arrogant. I still work on a 2012 iMac waiting for the bigger one to come but i did lots of (professional) 4K editing (which it can't display itself) on it and no it's not necessary to have a Retina display for that. It's convenient yes but not necessary, as well as reading text. Only in very specific graphic design cases. And 4K at 32" does NOT make things blurry. Blurry occurs when the hardware resolution vs software resolution: ≠ 1:1 or 2:1 or 3:1 or 4:1 but 1:1.15 or another improper conversion.
A 4K 32” screen 2X scaled to 1080p results in huge text that isn’t exactly blurry but which still may appear a bit pixelated at say a 20” seating distance.
It’s not overblown. You simply can’t see it, and I can. I cannot run a 4K display in the 1440p mode. It hurts my eyes.
See my post in thread 'Samsung M8 best picture settings'
It’s not about the deformity. It’s about the lack of edge definition. My eyes immediately notice that the edges of fonts are not well defined when a 4K display is in the 1440p resolution. Any other resolution on the 4K display makes the font either too little or two big. A 4K display at 1080p resolution looks great - just like a 5K display does in 1440p, but there is significantly less screen real estate between 1080p and 1440p.
That is not true. If the pixel density is high enough, non-integer scaling looks fine. Apple actually has used non-integer scaling on several Macs and iPhones by default.
No, it’s normal. 4K at 32” is too low a pixel density for clear text.
As mentioned above, it’s about text quality. It’s actually arguably less important for graphics.
I don’t use monitors for design, so I don’t use the non-HDPI 4K resolution for displaying images. I work with text, and as you mentioned, non-HDPI 4K is impossible to use for text, and any 1.x conversions are crap. The only UI conversions that work for me are integer-based HDPI UI conversions. This makes 4K be sized like 1080P for UI elements, including text, which is a waste of the screen real estate. The 5K HDPI conversion is sized like 1440P, which is perfect on a 27” display. This is the reason I don’t buy 4K monitors.
Hi! How did you made the connection between your laptop mac to the Samsumg monitor
Hi! How did you made the connection? I have a Macbook air M1 and the Samsung M8 is arriving tomorrow. I need it for zoom meetings so i dont know if HDMI would work. Thanks
Looks like a hub that does 5 Gbps (Superspeed) USB and DisplayPort from the computer over USB-C, then a HDMI connection from that to the monitor.
It comes with a high quality USBC cable, just plug that into your MacBook and you’re done. This will also charge the MacBook, which is very handy. Don’t use the HDMI cable that comes with it, as, if you do, you won’t be able to use the webcam.
I have an M1 Studio and have to use the HDMI cable that came with the M8. What am I doing wrong? I thought maybe I need a Thunderbolt cable, but the M8 doesn't support Thunderbolt. I want to free up the M8's HDMI port for a Blu-ray player. I don't need the M8's webcam.
I found this post by the developer of BetterDisplay on his Discord site -- he's saying if DDC doesn't work you may need to control brightness using software (though I'm not sure what settings you're trying to control). You might also try Lunar (which is similar in function to BetterDisplay)
Thank you, yes, it does dim via software, but because it is software-based it does not dim the backlight. I hope that Samsung will do a software update, so one can use the DDC protocol.
Have you experimented with different inputs? E.g., I found this here ( ) saying some Samsung montiors only implement DDC via HDMI:
I can't remember exactly but you ARE doing something wrong:
