On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 12:53:51 -0500 Robert Krawitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 11:56:27 -0500, Rich Pieri wrote: > > Which brings me back to the point I made about screen size: you > > have to upscale everything on a UHD screen in order to make > > everything appear to be the same size as it would appear on a 1080p > > screen with the same dimensions. Which is to say, the 4 times > > greater resolution of UHD is wasted if you need to make everything > > 4 times larger in order to achieve consistency. > > But (at least for me) it doesn't need to be the same size if the > resolution is higher. It's a question of bottleneck analysis. For those with exquisite (20/10) visual acuity, the bottleneck on legibility is the ability of the system to faithfully produce the characters at tiny sizes, without pixellation or other degradation. Such a person can benefit from very high resolution even on small devices. For those with blurry visual accuity (20/50), the bottleneck is their own vision, so that characters must be large for the person to deduce their outlines. To such a person, resolution is moot: Any reasonable resolution will be better than their eyesight. What such a person needs is *big*. SteveT Steve Litt January 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
