Good evening. What is your opinion on 2k monitors, specifically paired with a 1080p capable system?

Good evening. What is your opinion on 2k monitors, specifically paired with a 1080p capable system?
I have received mixed answers on the subject, various sites and people claiming that downscaled results will be horrible while others claim that 1080p on a 2k monitor looks just fine.
What is your take in this matter?

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by 2k are you referring to 2560x1440p, or are you referring to the DCI 2k standard res of 2048x1080?

>people claiming that downscaled results will be horrible

Well they are idiots.

Screen that small, it isn't going to matter.

You'd need something like a movie theatre screen to matter.

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Forgive me for not clarifiyng, i'm reffering to 2560x1440p

I see, good to know

why even have 1440p then

Watching 1080p content on a 1440p monitor means you're upscaling, not downscaling. Video content will look acceptable, but a bit fuzzier than native. Games will look quite bad (unless they have excellent TAA and other tricks).

You might have meant downscaling 4K content to your 1440p screen. This will look fine, and certainly better than 1080p. Still only half the pixels of actual 4K though.

2k is 1080p you retard.

its gets confusing when its 1k thou no one really knows what 1k is might be like the vita resolution of 680p or some thing. its less than 720p if you go by the same metric.

that's not 2k you retard. cinimas have 2k projectors they are 1080p

I meant upscaling from 1080p to 2k, my bad for making the typo.

No, the term "2K" when used by consumers refers to 2560x1440. You might care about being technically correct if you're mastering a film or installing a projector, but nobody else will. If you use "2K" to refer to the DCI 1080p-ish res, you will cause a LOT of confusion.

I was not aware of this, thanks for the info

(Me)
And further, using "2K" to refer to 1920x1080 is even worse and will cause extreme confusion.

I have never seen "2K", let alone a consumer talking about a 1440p screen. And yes, I prefer 1440p because it follows the same aspect ratio and convention of 1080p, 720p, and 2160p, even if it is not a television standard. Better than people using 4K vs UHD.

>I have never seen "2K", let alone a consumer talking about a 1440p screen
Just go to newegg.

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Here's how wikipedia defines 2k:
>2K resolution is a generic term for display devices or content having horizontal resolution of approximately 2,000 pixels.[1] Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) defines 2K resolution standard as 2048×1080.[2][3]

So basically the guys saying 1920x1080p was still 2k were completely right. Especially by Price Is Right rules.

Why would I care about a site about a new egg?

Well the average consumer doesn't give a fuck about you or your technicalities.

The website tells them it's 2k, so to them it's 2k.

So, ultimately would 1980x1080 content/games etc look good on a 2560x1440 monitor or would it just look blurry and mediocre because of the upscaling?
Does anyone have actual experience on this?

Why not just run the games at lower quality but rendered at native 1440p?


Or just render and run the game windowed at 1920x1080p on the 2560x1440p monitor.

This of course is a perfectly viable option, but my question was not "how to run 1980x1080 content upscaled with good quality" what i wanted to know was if any 1080p content would look bad upscaled without applying any workarounds.
Thanks a lot for the tip though, appreciate it

Generally 1080p movies and shit upscaled looks fine, it's not perfect, but it's not shit either.

For games I don't know since I would just run them at 1440p instead of 1080p.

1080p is 2k you homosexual

redpill me on sRGB 8bit monitors

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(OP)
1440p is a meme and a dumb one at that. 1080 will be king until 4k content becomes more readily available.

That's pretty much the conclusion that i arrived to as well

For gaming there is a legitimate use case.

1440p 144hz is a decent amount larger than 1080p, and GPUs are powerful enough to hit 144fps in many games at that res.


4k is too high res for most GPUs, even at just 60hz, forget 120/144hz.


For media like anime, movies, TV, sure 1080p or 4k makes more sense, you can freely ignore 1440p.

There is no point because 4k exists

We are on Jow Forums though, if you're on a board about technology, albeit one with a lot of shitposting, you should at least try to use correct nomenclature.

So what? That isn't the point, i'm not OP, i'm someone who was correcting OP, the point was this
>I have never seen "2K", let alone a consumer talking about a 1440p screen
Which is just retarded, because newegg and other sites have no issue calling 1440p "2k", and to pretend average consumers don't dictate marketing terms is just retarded.

Well then I replied to the wrong user in the chain. This one:
is the actual retard whom I wanted to address.