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I use dual 43" 4k TVs as monitors. It's fantastic.

My wife asked me how much "huge monitors" cost. I told her 100 bucks on Craigslist. Indeed, we got her an old dumb 1080p LCD and she has been super happy with it. It mostly fills the wall of her little cubby hole in our office.

For my money, I have 2x 1080p 24” displays, and a third curved 32" 1080p display which is hooked to a KVM so I can game on it.

I like the 3 monitor setup because they are all at angles from each other, approximating a huge curved display. Plus, this was a cheap setup off woot.com parts.

1080p is a tiny monitor in today's standards. It's also very similar to the old SXGA resolution that was very common in the late 1990s / 2000s.

Ahhh....1280x1024 on a 19" LCD in 2001, it felt like a 4K monitor does today.

1600x1200 on a 21" CRT was king. though.

1080p is good enough for me. I'm not sure buying 3 4k monitors is going to improve my life any, what with my middle-aged eyes and all.

Also, old stuff lacks shady smart features. Bonus!

I think monitors are like headphones. Unless you actually try the "better" ones, you don't have a clue what you're missing. I know because I had been saying "Dual 1080p 24" is all I will ever need." for a long time until I got a 4K 50". Now I can't imagine going back.

I checked with my wife and she is unsympathetic to this idea.

I usually use a pair of Sennheiser HD280s that I've had for over a decade. I've used some fancier headphones costing more than an order of magnitude more, from brands such as ZMF. After experiencing the high-end advantage, I'm still perfectly happy with the 280s. There are a few things I care about in a monitor, and DPI is nowhere on the list. Every monitor commercially available has more resolution than I care about. My number one concern is consistency across a wide viewing angle. Low latency, retina DPI, gamut accuracy, HDR, curved surface? I don't care about any of them. I have tried all of them.

1080p at 32"? Dear god man have some self respect. Not everything on a screen is meant to look exactly like Tetris you know.

Some people actually don't care. I'm one of them. I express my self-respect in ways other than my screen's resolution.

Don't take every comment so seriously, you do what works for you.

The treasure of my retro gaming collection is a 720p 32" CRT. It must be 100lbs.

Sweet baby jesus. What's it like having a room next to your computer just to store a monitor?

I kid, of course. I wouldn't want to use it myself, but you do you.

May I ask at what configuration? I'm assuming at least one is vertical because I can't think of a way to set 2 43" monitors horizontally without breaking my neck.

...why?

Why not?

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