Monitors

[micheus]

Let's be honest; you can buy something from the top shelf (like EIZO or NEC) with very good display (f.e EIZO CS230), but the prices start somewhere around 580 $, so it's twice like mine U2415...
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Conclusion:
You get for what you pay

You are absolutely right.

I'm going to use your post to give my testimony as a no professional trying to be equipped with a good monitor.


For a long time (7 years) I used a LG-W2486L 24"
Brightness and Contrast - two items to take in account for view quality and that monitor had the best one I could find that time.

Then I replace it for a Philips Ultra HD 4K 288P6 28" HDMI/DP/DVI/VGA, which I like.
I bought it because I wanted a bigger monitor on my desk and more pixels to work.
But I didn't took in account one thing: a 4K monitor is the same as tile four FullHD monitors. In this situation, 28" of size was not good enough - it can be for gamers, but not to work on screen - maybe a 32" would be a better choice.

The applications must to allow us to change its font size, because the default one use to become too small in a monitor like this.
OK, Windows has an option to scale the fonts, but that affect the application quality (visually talking) - I didn't like.

The way I found to be comfortable was to reduce the resolution to a QHD (2560x1440) that is a middle of FullHD and 4K (3840x2160).

There is also another issue. Render in 4K takes long time. Render full HD image is faster, but it's not so good to evaluate its result when the dots are so small in a 4K monitor.

Things are better now I have bought an Acer VA270H 27" FullHD/HDMI/DVI/VGA to be used with my wife's mini PC.
I installed it in an articulating arm so now I can use as a second monitor and have the better of two worlds.