What’s new
What’s new
Every change to DisplayScale that a visitor could see, newest first, dated to the day it went live. Fixes nobody could notice, and changes made and then taken back, are left out. If something here does not match what you find on the site, the contact page says how to tell us.
- The desk size calculator page explains how its width and depth are worked out: the minimum and comfortable widths, the stand, a monitor arm and the keyboard zone, and what two screens need.
- The projector screen size calculator page explains the throw ratio, how to measure the throw, the aspect ratio, and where to sit for films.
- The 27 inch viewing distance guide gives one range for desk work, about 56 to 78 cm, in its introduction, its answers and its description.
- The 65 inch wall fit gives the clear space at each side of the set to the nearest tenth of a centimetre.
- The desk and projector calculators in other languages are no longer listed in search results. They still work in the same way.
- A guide to our own desk, a 100 cm cupboard that has held a stacked pair of monitors since 2020, with the width and height each setup needed.
- The small-desk guide no longer says two monitors cannot fit on a 100 cm desk: side by side they cannot, stacked they can.
- The bedroom TV guide and the 58 inch size page describe our own 58 inch, 2 m from the pillow: how high it hangs, what 1440p and 4K look like from there, and what a dark room shows up.
- The bedroom TV guide and the 75 inch size page describe a 75 inch we gamed on from bed at 3.4 m, which took less of our view than the 58 inch does from 2 m.
- The small-desk guide says how much a 34 inch ultrawide makes you turn your head at 55 cm, and what that is like in practice; the ultrawide guide points to stacking for a small desk.
- The 50 inch size page describes the 50 inch 4K on our sim-racing rig, 1.5 m from the seat.
- Tables in fourteen guides and comparisons have space between their columns again, and scroll inside their frame on a phone.
- Guides can draw two screens stacked one above the other.
- The trademark line in the terms names the games consoles the guides refer to.
- A size page for 42 inch televisions, and the 40 and 43 inch pages compare themselves with it.
- The cookie policy and the privacy policy say what the consent settings do before Google’s advertising script loads, that no advertisement is shown while Google reviews the site, and that there is nothing to accept or refuse until ads go live.
- The About page says how panel dimensions are worked out, and that Google’s advertising script loads on the home page and the TV and monitor size calculators while Google reviews the site.
- The privacy policy names POPIA and the right to object, and says the only thing we can hold is an email you sent us.
- The cookie policy points to the privacy policy for what the visit counter records.
- The comparisons page explains how to compare any two sizes with the calculators.
- Size and comparison tables say whether the room left over is in all or on each side, a TV that overhangs its unit reads “Fits on its feet”, and a distance under a metre is given in centimetres.
- The trademark line in the terms names the standards, connectors and operating systems the pages refer to.
- The monitor size calculator page explains what it cannot show in a drawing: why desk depth decides the size more than width, the resolution and scaling to expect at each size, and an ultrawide against a second screen, with six questions people ask.
- Seventeen screen size pages that were only tables now open with what matters about that size in particular, from the 21.5 inch panel inside most 22 inch monitors to getting a 98 inch television through a door. Twenty-five size pages gained questions written for that size.
- Every guide, comparison and size page says when it was published and, if it has changed since, when it was last updated.
- The TV calculator’s ranking gives each size its own reason instead of repeating its verdict.
- An About page, saying who runs the site and why, apart from the contact details.
- A broken link in the guide to monitors for programming.
- This page is new.
- Guides, comparisons and size pages link to each other in their text, where a sentence raises a question another page answers.
- The privacy policy names Google AdSense without printing the advertising account number.
- A monitor scaling calculator: pick a size and resolution and see how much fits on the screen at each scaling setting. It is available in all seven languages.
- The calculators are available in Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Simplified Chinese and Japanese, from a language picker on every page.
- Seventeen new guides, among them a viewing distance chart, how high to mount a TV, whether 4K is worth it at 27 inches, the 140 cm alcove problem, and an ultrawide against two monitors.
- Size pages for 60, 70 and 80 inch televisions.
- The 27 against 32 inch and 55 against 65 inch comparisons were expanded.
- The viewing distance and screen dimensions calculators explain how their numbers are worked out.
- Terms, cookies and contact pages, naming the company that runs the site.
- Plan a desk with several monitors and arrange them by hand.
- A size page for every screen in the catalogue, 29 in all.
- A tool that reads the resolution of the screen you are using.
- Guides for a TV seen from ten feet and for a bedroom.
- Index pages for the size chart, the guides and the comparisons, and a page for a link that goes nowhere.
- Three inputs that changed the score without changing the drawing now change the drawing too, and a size chip swaps the screen on the desk instead of adding another.
- The monitor and TV calculators became one page with a switch between them, and each states its answer once.
- The site opened: monitor and TV size calculators that draw real screen sizes onto your own desk or wall at true scale, with a screen dimensions, viewing distance, desk size and projector calculator beside them.
- Four guides, four side by side comparisons and six size pages.
- Google’s advertising script began loading so the site could be reviewed for advertising, and the privacy policy said so the same day.