August 15, 20232 yr Hi guys, Been a long time, finally burned out on the whole scene around 2016 with my last flight being the PMDG 737NG .. KSNA to KLAX .. Megascenery and all the other top addons of the time .. using a Dell 30” monitor and Saitek Cessna full kit. So fast forward to a couple weeks ago when I started watching 4k videos of both MSFS and X-Plane on my 12.9” iPad Pro .. I was blown away with the image quality and add-ons like the Fenix a320 and thought to myself ‘ok it’s time to build a new PC and start up again’. So I’m half way through a Z790/4090 build, and just took delivery of a Samsung QN90C 50” 4k TV. I’m a YouTube Red member and last night aiplayed some 4k MSFS/X-Plane vid’s to my new TV .. but the details in the landscape textures like trees, grass, mountains, etc. just look way over smoothed .. not crisp and sharp like I remember my FSX on my 30” Dell IPS 8 years ago, I tried messing with some of the TV settings but really only improved the color and brightness some, the smeary textures are still there. These vids look great on my little 12.9” iPad Pro screen .. but at 50 inches I’m pretty bummed. Is it going to be different when I actually hook my new computer up and fly for myself .. or are these 4k YouTube videos pretty representative of what I’m going to see? Also I’m thinking a 50” 16:9 TV/Monitor might just be too big unless only using it for outside visuals .. like if I drag my old Flight Deck Solutions A320 panels out from under the bed and actually build the dang cockpit which I never got around to back in the day, but I’ll probably just end up using the whole Fenix A320 and it’s native panels on screen .. which looks good on the 50” when viewing the whole capt side panel, but when the video guys zoom in on things like the CDU, center pedestal, overhead, EFB etc. the look ridiculously way to big on this 50” .. like for instance the cockpits iPad EFB (which it looks like is used a lot) is twice the size on this big 50” TV than my real life one .. kind of an immersion killer for me .. at least so far with just some cursory viewing last night. I’m thinking maybe return it and get a 43” or even 32” .. I’m not sure though .. got a long road ahead of experimenting like back in the day I guess. Anyway if any of you serious experienced flight sim addicts could chime in and give me your thoughts or ideas on all this I’d really appreciate it. Thanks, Chris Strobel, Irvine, CA USA www.flightdeck1.com Edited August 15, 20232 yr by cloudswimmer Chris Strobel KSNA
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