New Samsung Screen

[biometrics]

Turn on night light, will yellow stuff.

During the night I usually put my monitor down to 20-30%, it's nice having the option to go higher, and especially useful if there is a lot of light from behind.

In your case I'm pretty sure it's not because the monitor is bigger (though it's a little bit of a factor), it's more that you came from a really bad display to an okay one, the budget monitor segment got a lot better the last 2/3 years and one of the main improvements were most back lights being better/now able to operate at higher nits. I would hazard your old monitor was 200 nits (cd/m^2 of luminance, so how much light per square meter), new one is probably a max of 300 nits. It will probably be something like the new monitor at 50-60% brightness will be the old monitors max since it will have a more even shine.

I suggest you download clickmonitorddc or monitorian (https://github.com/emoacht/Monitorian) and then quick adjust the brightness as needed between content.


There's more to a monitor than just pixels, color accuracy, ghosting, etc. all matter as well, but yes, I much prefer a 1440p over a 1080p display at 27".

Sure, I looked at aspects when I got mine, forgotten most of it by now. Love my Dell S2719DGF.

 

[BloodrayneZA]

Thanks, @Johnatan56 and @biometrics - something I'll consider for future reference.

I've been gaming Skyrim again and it does look great for gaming and video streaming as I've mentioned a few posts back - just watched a few episodes of Star Trek: Discovery and it's not really bad at all, I can't see much of the bigger pixels (I probably need glasses lol).

I did notice something weird - my wallpaper pixelates in the middle (mountain with lake pier) but goes away after a few seconds when I go to the desktop so I've opted for a black background now.

I still don't like the look of the font when reading or posting on social media.

 

[Papa Smurf]

Very cool article explaining it in an easy way to understand
I learnt something new