Portrait Mode Monitor for Workshop Noticeboard Display with Good Viewing Angles

pegaxs on 04/04/2024 - 14:43

Been searching for weeks and just cant seem to find anything that suits my needs. It's almost impossible to find a portrait mode dedicated monitor.

The issue I have is, I set up a noticeboard at work for advertising and crap, but the problem is, it was just made out of an old monitor we had laying around, and with this, it has great viewing angles when in landscape, but in portrait mode, move slightly left or right of this and the picture fades out or is like a negative image with colours flipped.

What I want is a 26~32" natively portrait monitor where the viewing angles are as good as a regular monitor in landscape. I dont know what tech I should be looking at, because all the LCD monitors at work I have turned on the side all do the same thing. Great in landscape mode, ratshit in portait from anywhere other than directly front on. Is there another technology that would be better? OLED? QLED? ASDJFED?

Dont care about ports, dont care about power consumption, or anything other than it needs to have a WIDE viewing angle in portrait and preferable if it has almost no bezel or a uniform bezel (ie: not a landscape monitor with a thick bezel and buttons down the bottom.) Oh, and it needs to have the ISO/VESA type mounts to mount it to the wall bracket.

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Comments

  • Mechz on 04/04/2024 - 15:01

    You probably want to look at commercial displays.

    • pegaxs on 04/04/2024 - 15:08

      Yep, would be happy with that. It doesn't need to be fancy… I have been trying to find those ones they used in display walls that are basically just no bezel that you can daisy chain in a grid type setup. I dont even know where to start looking for these types of displays.

  • geekcohen on 04/04/2024 - 15:06

    Get a TV and then just mount it in portrait mode. That should do the problem. Its pretty much was commercial displays are now anyways, TVs.

    • pegaxs on 04/04/2024 - 15:26

      No good. Tried that. Had a 32" TV and it was woeful for displaying as a monitor. Was even worse than the dedicated monitor that we used when turned on its side.

  • sumyungguy on 04/04/2024 - 15:28

    Is it a space constraint that demands portrait? Some years ago we introduced displays like this to improve employee engagement by communicating more, especially shift handover stuff. We used aged notebooks from the bone yard and ran a short slideshow in MS Powerpoint. I haven't seen anyone using a portrait display since the days of Adobe PageMaker.

    • pegaxs on 04/04/2024 - 15:55

      It's more a requirement for the type of informtion that is on offer. It's more in dot point format and just cant get the depth we need for the information in landscape.

      Added to that, if I can get this working, we are going to look at using it for workshop information… Again, lists, so more like a worksheet/A4 type document display.

  • spackbace on 04/04/2024 - 16:10

    How bright is the area? Could you look at a projector?

    • pegaxs on 04/04/2024 - 22:41

      Bright. I think a projector would just look washed out. In the workshop area, we would need to mount it with a board as there are no flat “walls”, just the inside of the shed bracing and concrete.

  • LurkingLurker on 04/04/2024 - 16:29

    Could consider commercial eink displays if you are showing static images only: https://www.tekdis.com.au/epd-2501.html

    • pegaxs on 04/04/2024 - 22:37

      Yeah, it’s mostly static info, no videos or moving pictures. Maybe. A screen refresh/change ever 15~20 seconds…

      I initially wanted just a back and white eink screen, but even small ones are hellishly expensive. I shudder to think what one of their 26” units cost… boss has given me a budget, but it’s not going to cover eink.

      • LurkingLurker on 04/04/2024 - 23:04

        Yeah most likely 3k+ but for their applications traditional displays really don't hold a candle.

        I onto Rtings and sorted their table by vertical viewing angle, it seems like OLED monitors are the clear winners if your budget allows.

  • Friskies on 04/04/2024 - 18:39

    The LG monitor below is exactly what you are looking for. I own one and it is fantastic. Has a few more features than what you want but eh…..

    https://www.lg.com/au/it-monitors/lg-28mq780-b

    • pegaxs on 04/04/2024 - 22:39

      Right path, but wrong ratio. Looking for something I can basically just upload A4 formatted pages too. These units look a little too… squared.

  • pinchies on 05/04/2024 - 00:06

    is like a negative image with colours flipped.

    These are typical symptoms of monitors with TN panels.

    move slightly […] and the picture fades out

    these are typical symptoms of monitors with VA or MVA panels.

    Look for a monitor with an IPS panel and try one of those. You should be OK. e.g. this one if you can handle only being 24" in size, this one if you want 27" or this one if you want 27" and 4K too .

    • pegaxs on 05/04/2024 - 08:52

      Cheers. I wasnt sure, but I knew there would have been a better panel type out there to suit the applications. I just wasnt sure what one it was, becausze every website I tired searching for it had differing opinions.

      I dont need 4k (it's only just hooked up to a Raspbery Pi), so the Dell 27" looks pretty close to what I need. I'll check to see if I have an IPS panel on one of the computers already and test that so see if it makes any difference.

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