As said above, as long as the aspect matches, you'll get a full screen image, and there won't be any degradation of quality by viewing a lower pixel count video on a higher pixel count monitor.

I have QHD , only problem I have noticed is if you screen capture at 1440P and edit in vegas you may get more crashes than 1080p BUT most likely not with VP21. It still happens, but no where at the same frequency of the bad old days especially VP19 and before

Thank you all! This may sway me into getting a QHD monitor!

😃 We knew you were just trying to talk yourself into it!

Now that you've convinced yourself that a 2560 x 1440 monitor is the cat's meow, I'll throw another wrinkle into the mix...

Dot Pitch

I use a Monitor whose pixel dimensions are 2560x1440. It's also 31.5 inches diagonal measurement and has a dot pitch of 0.2724 mm which is similar to the dot pitch of my old monitor. If I bought a laptop with 2560x1440 pixel dimensions in a 16" display, I would not be able to use it since the dot pitch would be below what my eyes could resolve at 0.1384 mm. I would likely have to use DPI scaling to make the text on the Vegas workspace large enough for me to see. Even though I see a lot of people using 13" Macbooks when I go to Starbucks, they are rarely over thirty years old and I would venture to bet they aren't editing video.

Reference

Dot Pitch Calculator - https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/technology/ppi-calculator.php

Screen Size and Seating Distance - https://www.soundandvision.com/content/screen-size-and-seating-distance

Now that you've convinced yourself that a 2560 x 1440 monitor is the cat's meow, I'll throw another wrinkle into the mix...

Dot Pitch

I use a Monitor whose pixel dimensions are 2560x1440. It's also 31.5 inches diagonal measurement and has a dot pitch of 0.2724 mm which is similar to the dot pitch of my old monitor. If I bought a laptop with 2560x1440 pixel dimensions in a 16" display, I would not be able to use it since the dot pitch would be below what my eyes could resolve at 0.1384 mm. I would likely have to use DPI scaling to make the text on the Vegas workspace large enough for me to see. Even though I see a lot of people using 13" Macbooks when I go to Starbucks, they are rarely over thirty years old and I would venture to bet they aren't editing video.

Reference

Dot Pitch Calculator - https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/technology/ppi-calculator.php

Screen Size and Seating Distance - https://www.soundandvision.com/content/screen-size-and-seating-distance

Interesting... I was just going to use a 27inch to hopefully find the best middle ground for browsing, gaming and editing, would this be advised?

😃 We knew you were just trying to talk yourself into it!

Sometimes you just need a push and some validation from forums XD

I am happy with my 27 inch Eizo that's 2560x1440. It's less than 2 feet in front of me.

I bought a 1440p 27" and returned it because I couldn't read the text on the Vegas screen without increasing the Scale in Windows. Which defeats the purpose of increasing screen real estate.

My daughter uses a 1080p 27" for video conferencing so she doesn't have to use her reading glasses.

@RogerS I'm happy with the EVF on my camera. My eye just about touches it.

My 1080p 15 in. laptop screen is at the same close distance and the 27 inch is much easier to read without changing scaling. But that's for me and I don't have glasses.

I also appreciate my Sony EVF.