I didn't want to comment but feel it's necessary given that this video is meant to dispel myths. There are a couple glaring errors. 1) You're using and EDR correction file for your colorimeter that isn't designed for your panel. It's visible whenever you show Calman charts. This can cause measurements to be incorrect. 2) There is some sort of tone mapping happening which is obvious in your calibration chart at 4:25. That dip at 65-70 is evidence of tone mapping. 3) You can't just measure to D65 Whitepoint as Calman defaults to and call it inaccurate. Many manufacturers use an alternate whitepoint due to metamerism. LG does this with their OLEDs and so does Sony. You need to measure against the whitepoint Samsung/Dell are using. Or you can use a spectro and figure it out.
This is the type of premium Dell needs to focus on with their Alienware brand. Also it's cool to see gaming monitors to become the technology ambassador for monitor technology. Who knows, maybe the first serious microLED product would be a gaming monitor.
To be fair, it's may be uncommon for people who watch CNN with icon on the corner 7 hours a day everyday - but it's super not uncommon for people to have taskbar on their monitor for at least 8 hours everyday (unless you don't have work to do.) The kind of burn-in inducing workload is far more demanding on a monitor than a TV. QD probably perform better in that regard, but we'll see. The fact that Dell is confidene enough to give you 3 years warranty knowing full well that it's will be used as a monitor and not a TV is pretty reassuring.
I think for those really paranoid; just use the built in preventative burn-in features (panel refresh, pixel shift etc) as well as a changing wallpaper/screensaver and auto-hide the taskbar. You should be set (imo) and have the least of worries
More deep dive videos. Often you do more of a "boutique" style review, they are great, but they don't really go in-depth of some things. You know us we want all the nitty-gritty. So this video was great, I like how you showed pixel structure, debunk things and we learn stuff. More please.
What you pointed out about how much leg work Sony's processing is doing on the A95K to overcome the limitations/quirks of the panel actually makes me even more excited for that tv. That's really impressive they pulled that off.
its not rocket science, you map the expected response of the two brightest colors to the nits value that corresponds to the nits value released by the least bright pixel. Impossible to implement on any technology other than OLED, but easily achievable on OLED.
@@ags911 no, because monitors don't process the data like a TV does (mostly for latency reasons). TVs Typically spend atleast 100 ms processing the image prior to displaying it, monitors immediately draw the frame after receiving it (typically within 5 ms)
LOVE THE VIDEO. Details, debunk, proof, all I love :) Now next step PLEASE : test a LG C2 42" and compare it to this Alienware screen in computer work/gaming situations :)
my overall first week experience with this monitor is as follows : 1. if the game supports windows auto-HDR feature, a small confirmation pop-up notification appear on the lower right corner of the screen and when it does, your game would shine with colors and perfect HDR experience. if the pop-up notification doesn't appear, you would have a basic and not professional level HDR experience. I played Ori & the Will of the Wisps and Hades and with windows auto-HDR support, it really is an enjoyable experience, particularly with 2 to 5 percent window 1000 nits brightness that this monitor supports, small specular highlights really shine magnificently. 2. the monitor has slight flickering and brightness-shifting issue in the loading screen of the monitor. 3. with HDR turned-on, video-recording of your gameplay would be messed up badly. so if you plan to record your gameplay, the only option is to turn-off windows HDR and play your game in SDR instead, which is really sad. this is also applicable when working with video-editing software like Adobe Premiere. Overall, I am satisfied with this monitor, its wide-screen form factor and satisfying-level of curvature. if your main intention is to play video games with this monitor, it is absolutely a very good choice to buy it but if you plan to record your HDR gameplay with geforce experience feature, your recording would be a mess. if anyone have found a way to record their HDR gameplay without pircture getting messed-up, please share it with me. thanks.
As someone who's had the Alienware AW3418DW for like 3 years now, I gotta say the black bars on 16:9 content stopped bothering me a long time ago. You jus get used to it. And I imagine true black bars will be even less of an annoyance. The bigger downside is a lot of movies/shows are stuck in 1080p since most don't have support for 1440p.
Same here, I'm rocking the AW3418DW and if it even gets way better than it, then we are in for a treat! I preordered it and it won't be here till June. can't wait
Most games and Movies are 21:9 so Ultrawide is the best option. And i dont get it why on 16:9 TV's the Black bars up and own are not a problem for movies .
@@Tripokaridos22 because TV shows are made with the aspect ratio of a TV in mind, 16:9. so even if the show has "black bars" up and down, in reality it's still 16:9 and black bars are fake for most of the shows. you can probably do something with your player to zoom in or something to crop these black bars easily tho
@@cydia11centra Ok but Movies ? I use my TV to watch a lot of movies and 90% of them are with Black Bars up and Down . On my Ultrawide monitor there are no bars at all , 90% of movies work without bars on Ultrawide monitors. Honestly i would love to buy a Huge Ultrawide TV , but they tried it in the past and didnt work for most people, because like u said TV programs are all of them 16:9
There are a few things I find ironic given he's debunking stuff. 1. He's using an EDR correction file for the C6 colorimeter that isn't designed for the panel. It's visible whenever the Calman charts are shown. This means his measurements must be taken with a grain of salt since the EDR they used could be making things worse, or better. 2. He says that the monitor isn't tone mapping but there is some tone mapping happening, which is obvious in the calibration chart around 4:25. That dip at 65-70 is representative of it. 3. Using D65 whitepoint as Calman defaults to will cause inaccurate results if the panel is using an alternate whitepoint. They need to use a spectro to check if Samsung/Dell are using one, then measure against it if they are. LG's use of one on the C1 is the same reason RTINGS OOB measurements are bad.
OLED burn in is not linear. Once you see any at all it gets worse faster. TV use is one thing, but monitor use is another. There are people who live in front of their computer. They do all of their work and play on the same display. 3500hr is 291 12hr days in front of the computer. The goal is to have it last 5+yr and never have to do any weird tricks to hide the task bar to reduce burn in. Yeah okay, if you're not going to be using the monitor for an hour while you step out, you should turn off the display like you should for any to save power consumption. I believe new TVs have better burn in protection yes, but we're acting like a TV that doesn't burn in visibly after 3yr means burn in is not a problem. I do not agree with that assessment at all, even if those 3yr were spent on desktop use. I don't believe in short upgrade cycles on screens unless there's truly something amazing around every corner every 3yr. For both the planet and my pocketbook. Every time somebody asks 'is burn in a problem?' on OLED gaming subreddit people downvote it because ofc it's not a problem. Every time somebody makes a thread saying their TV burned in, people laugh at them and say that's not what OLED is for. But it's possible things really do change this time around. I'll be watching with great interest.
Because using an OLED tv for 3-5 years at minimum for people is something most people are okay with at this juncture. They say it isn't a problem, because it isn't unless you see 3-5 years as unacceptable for a screen to degrade. I agree that we should move to better TV tech to reduce the burn in while maintaining that great picture, but the people saying it isn't a problem are right. This is where TV tech currently is right now, so I don't see it as "a problem" that a really good looking OLED tv is now much more affordable and can last half a decade at least if you heed the OLED warnings of TV manufacturers and take precaution. Not everything you buy is meant to be used ignorantly and last 10 years with no thought being put into taking care of it
We will see how the Burn in works out on QD-OLED.. Samsung seems to be using "real-time ISC (image sticking correction)".. That is supposedly in real time checking every single pixel and measuring it's electricity use and brightness level. There are several ways to handle it.. A few hidden pixels outside of view is used as benchmark. Also in order to hide or mitigate the wear and dimness over time for the worst pixel they can either push more electricity to it to push more brightness or they can reduce the brightness of the other pixels. So depending on how long it can last in many thousands of hours they have some leeway in reducing brightness to the lowest brightness pixel. That way the "burn in" or permanent ghosting can't be seen even though it actually exist. It's just some pixels get used more and age faster and get dimmer. But if this RT ISC works well then yes the screen might lose some nits over time or they push the aging pixels harder to keep up and find some balance across all pixels. Would be interesting to see how long that would last before the brightness has dropped a percentage large enough over the years that you notice. To me it all depends on how long the Blue OLED can last. Also in normal use pixels aren't sitting at 100% max brightness/electricity but fluctuate. That said if I get ANY OLED I still pay the BB warranty so I can feel "safe" for 4 years with replacement.. It's just super annoying it's so expensive. But at least I know I have 4 years and even longer if burn in were to happen at year 3 and replaced then you have 6 years.. I would buy a new TV personally after 4-5 years anyway.
I totally agree, if nowadays is acceptable that an expensive tv lasts 5 years then ok burn in is not a problem. The majority of people though not enthusiasts want to keep their tvs much longer than that
QD Oled is resillient, impressivelly and exceptionally so. Any burn in within the first 3 years of usage, in 99% of cases, happens due to a latent panel defect, you received a defective panel but the defect became apparent only months or 1-2 years later.
Of course it's a possibility because of the ORGANIC aspect of the panel. Regardless, it has a 3 year warranty not to mention that you can hide the taskbar, use a screensaver, and browse websites in full screen.
Burn in is terrible. One day I’ve seen it show up, and.. well, of out of warranty, the monitor is just over. As everything from then on looks bad. Not worth it.
If it gets better than the AW3418DW, than that's all I need to know! Because that monitor blew me away when I got it 3 years ago. This is the upgrade I've been waiting for!
Hi @Caleb - I watched your video and read several articles with first hands on test and especially the German media is quite negative about some issues with color issues appearing in locations where bright content like text is shown in front of dark backgrounds. They complain about visible discoloration on the top of such text/elements and at the bottom, which the address to the LED layout being a triangle shape. Did you experience this as well and if yes, how bad is it? From the articles I read, you would assume it to be such an annoying presence of discoloration, that it would totally ruin the overall quality of the picture. Is that a thing?
1. Most people don't care how its pixels are arranged. We hope it can clearly display text. But in the short picture at 01:27, we can see that its text display is very bad, and there are color edges up and down the white font! 2. Please do not use the 16:9 mode to measure the brightness of the 21:9 display, so the measured value will be higher than the real one. In the last frame of 05:41, we see that the instrument has detected 100% brightness, but the screen does not display all white. 3. If you think aw3423dw is really dark, you should put it together with a90j C1 and face the light. A90j and C1 will be much darker than aw3423dw. This means that the surface coating of aw3423dw is not excellent, and QD OLED becomes LCD in the place with light. My working environment is very bright. Behind me is the window. Even if the power of aw3423dw is turned off, the screen is gray, so I returned it.
Oh man, what a great year to be an AV nerd/enthusiast. At 45, we've come a long way since over the air NTSC VHF/UHF broadcast. My first CRT in college was 26", weighed 400 lbs., and was considered "luxurious". We've come a long way, baby!
I bought this monitor! Can't wait to get it end of June per Dell, big delay. Have some questions DT! 1) Will you compare this display with the LG C2 42inch? Apparently the LG C2 has native 21:9 UW mode. At 42 inches it would produce a 38inch 21:9 display with top and bottom black bars. 2) I mentioned a 38inch 21:9 aspect ratio for C2 oled in UW mode is possible, but what resolution would that be? 3840x1600? I wonder if that too hard to push with raytracing with even 3080ti for AAA titles. Do you think we might get a 38 inch QD-OLED UW in the future? 3) You mentioned the low nits with SDR, is that something that should be fixed with next versions or do you think that was a burn in prevention measure by Dell? LOVE LOVE LOVE the channel, thx.
Supposing DLSS or FSR do very well for upscaling to 4k. I'm a 48CX owner and most of the time I would always use upscale to enjoy 120hz. The UW res is 3840x1620 BTW.
oof, the SDR brightness cap killed this for me. Yes, the HDR performance is great, but SDR will still be how the majority of the contents will be displayed. It is still hard to beat a TV OLED when ABL is disabled.
This review is fantastic. Please keep it up! Your channel has been great but my main criticism has been you are not critical and technical enough. This technical content is great. When you can provide a connection between a technical test and a practical consideration, thats gold, please do more of that!
I had already switched to using a LG C1 for my monitor, so wasn't super interested in the Alienware one, but interesting to hear about how it turned out.
Doesnt matter qd oled still not so gg cus curved maybe as second monitor to sit in front of. But not as primary monitor. Im using LG OLED on 1600p its like 32 inch with custom nvidia settings. Rest ist mirror
The burn in problem has become so little of an issue and I think it's because of the amazing invention of dark mode on so many applications. If you have a majority white wallpaper or application you have up on your display for 8+ hours a day, sure it will probably burn in. If you are not that person I'd bet it won't happen to you. So excited to see this tech being released and oled finally not costing the price of a high end pc. Can't wait for an 27" 4k display with this tech and how well the other brands will implement it into their monitors!
Hey Caleb. Just wanted to reach out and let you know that your videos have been sooo helpful. I recently just bought C1 OLED based on your tests and reviews. I have it set up with an Apple TV 4K and i couldnt be happier! Keep up the great vids!
Thanks for another superb video, Caleb. You are always a great resource for accurate information on monitors and TVs. I'm hoping you can review Samsung's newly introduced S95B QD-OLED TV as soon as that model becomes available to you. (Amazon has already listed the Samsung S95B for pre-order, with an April 11 release date.) I will be extremely interested to hear how you think it compares to Sony's A95K QD-OLED in terms of video processing, upscaling, and overall picture quality, especially since the 55" Samsung QD-OLED seems to be priced about $800 less than the Sony, and the 65" Samsung will be $1000 less than the Sony.
@@loki76 I was hoping that he'd get one by now since they will be available in a month from now for the public to purchase. I thought the company would give reviewers the units at least a month ago so that they have some head room to fix any issue reviewers can find and report.
Thank you sir! The part with black level and lights in the room was revealing! I saw lots of reviews on the Alien OLED and the part with bright lights is always confusing, now you gave me peace of mind.
Got my AW3423DW in May 2022 and have zero complaints. It doesn't get any better for gaming, is plenty bright, and destroys every other tech out there for contrast and color saturation. Games look STUNNING.
I find it odd that you consider the aspect ratio so problematic for TV use. This is just a tad wider than Cinemascope, which is still quite popular. And it being OLED it's also not so bothersome having black bars. Depending on the movies you want to watch, this is quite ideal. Also I don't like the processing most TVs do, but perhaps that's just me.
yeah odd that he doesn't even mention that movies filmed in 2.35:1 (which is most) aspect fill up the screen with no bars anywhere and is the BEST way to watch movies. i went ultrawide for gaming and movies years ago and i'll never go back.
I've been waiting to order a high refresh rate monitor for something like this to come along. I'm using a 34" ultrawide from LG that tops out at 75hz and, honestly, that's not really a noticeable improvement over standard 60. I'm sooooo tempted to place a preorder for this and patiently wait until June. It's between this and an OLED TV for the HTPC. But the Sony 4K 65" LED I'm using now is good enough. My monitor really needs the upgrade more and there's finally something interesting available. Again, so tempted!
Hard disagree with the last point. 16:9 TV content? Sure, you get the black bars. But the movies with 2.4:1 cinematic aspect ratio going from edge to edge look absolutely stunning on this monitor. 😃
That is interesting observations but I do disagree on ABL. I have a G1 but it is still obviously dimming when there is larger portions of bright stuff on the screen. If I look at a shadowed wall with the sun just barely in the frame the sun looks nice and bright but as soon as I fill the frame with only sky, clouds and the sun, everything gets darker and especially the sun doesn‘t stand out anymore and is almost as dim as the clouds surrounding it. And that is with HGiG and having the game settings properly calibrated. I‘m eager to see if the A95K which should be the brightest possible QD-OLED with that heatsink is able to significantly improve that.
this monitor was a dream of mine for so long now, definite must buy for me because i am a total sucker for OLED and Ultrawide and this is the match that's made in display heaven.... great price and great performance couldn't ask for more
I know you wanted to gloss over the pixel arrangement, but like how can you ignore that that diamond layout is infact a detriment to pc use? like no one was complaining about it being pentile, they were complaining about the arrangement meaning that text and other high contrast straight line elements, which are very common on a PC end up with some unsightly green fringing from the examples ive seen online, since you know usually the rgb is a rectangular shape on PC monitors.
Valid concern. That being said, as someone who’s had the monitor about a week now is a non issue for me. Looking at the monitor IRL can tell hints of it (if looking) while taking a picture exacerbates the issue. Similar to how some people can perceive stutter, lag, etc. There's a certain threshold for everyone and if it actually bothers them. To add to this, whoever gets this monitor I hope you aren’t sensitive to this issue. Because everything else this monitor provides is amazing.
Thank you for mythbusting so many myths and concerns. I bought it on the 8th of March without hesitation and awaiting delivery. It really reinforces my purchase
Well, it (2:08) might not be a PenTile display but it is most definitely NOT an RGB-stripe display either! Sensitive people (like myself) would be very disappointed to unwrap this and realize it's not an RGB-stripe! This is not an ideal pixel arrangement! 3:16 - I completely disagree with this statement! First off, there are a lot of people who have excellent eyes. Otherwise a 4k screen would not make the slightest amount of sense for a PC display at 27" or so. This display is a standard resolution for an ultrawide and one CAN see the pixels. Pentile is a horrible pixel arrangement in per personal opinion and this one is only a slight improvement. The space between the pixels is way too large, meaning the fill density is much lower than on an RGB-Stripe display. Also, the diamond arrangement of pixels can lead to really odd visual artifacts when displaying solid colors. EDIT of EDIT: Ahh, fair enough! You actually talk more about the pixel arrangement and it would seem it's also not your favorite arrangement. One can clearly see in this (3:55) section how absolutely terrible the font is being displayed.
Agreed! They really missed the mark in not making this a regular RGB-stripe arrangement :( Might be a dealbreaker for me... My main concern is cleartype: it assumes RGB stripe, so will maul the handling of all fonts :( But as you mention, there are other issues aswell with the weird arrangement...
I’m actually curious to see if any of the companies will have a solution for burn in. They are selling you a premium item at a relatively expensive price so are we still considered early adapters and have to constantly baby our monitors?
Kind of related but unrelated ABL (auto brightness limiter) is definitely still an issue (hopefully not with this monitor though). My LG C1 48" I used as a PC monitor was sooooo annoying with the ABL I had to change so many settings to make it tolerable but still annoyed me in the end with the constant dimming and brightening. I'm almost ready to pull the trigger on the Alienware AW3423DW so hopefully this is not an issue like with my LG C1.
I was an OLED early adopter. My LG 9600 and E6 both suffered from burn in < 1 mos and in 4 yrs, respectively. The LG C1 is doing well so far, but don’t believe anyone who claims burn in is a thing of the past. I didn’t abuse my prior tvs or use excessively. It’s hard for me to believe a computer monitor with significantly more static images isn’t at a similar or increased risk of burn in.
Great and probably much needed video . I’ll be honest and admit I was one of the people worried when you mentioned the blacks on A95K 😂. Really appreciate you clearing that up, cheers
The thing about brightness is definitely something most people don't understand. As you said, when you are using an OLED TV you want it to be bright, but as a monitor 2000 or even 1000 is too much. I've been using the CX48 as a monitor and i have to turn down the brightness to like 20-30% or i will burn my eyes out.
People dont understand that Monitors are not only for movies and games , they are also for work and to work in a monitor u need 100-200 Nits brightness and the most Important ANTIGLARE panel , None of those OLED panels have Antiglare panel all of them are just Mirrors , are only usable with no light at all.
One thing about brightness most people don't understand, is it's not about "brightness", but more about bright detail or gradation in the bright highlights. If a display isn't capable of brightness, it will improperly display a 700 nit detail, the same as 900 nit detail, causing a blown out appearance, HDTV test did a video "why your oled is not bright enough".
I feel for a TV burn in was less of a concern than as a computer monitor. I owned a 65" LG B6 that was a great tv and i was not worried about burn in watching normal content. Until these new QD-OLED's though I never would have used an oled as a monitor because of the burn in risk, I do plan to pick up this Alienware though
I am using a 48" C1 as a PC monitor and I love it. I have a 10 year old 64" Samsung flagship plasma that has thousands and thousands of gaming hours on it, along with thousands of mixed usage such as movies, Netflix, etc...with no burn in. My 15 year old daughter has been the primary user of the plasma for the past 4 years and she games on it almost everyday...with no burn in. As was mentioned in this video, for burn in to occur you literally need to have the same static image on every day (for thousands of hours cumulative) for burn in to occur. Even with gaming you do not have this occur because you have cut scenes or you go into menus, etc. Also, my C1 has the EVO panel so although I do not get the full benefit of the EVO panel as I would if it was a G1, it's longevity will be improved because the EVO panel is made to be pushed harder than what the C1 does.
@@blindsay I have my taskbar set to hide until I hover over it... also, I use my PC for mixed usage including gaming. Obviously there are situations a user can create wherein they could eventually induce burn in... my point was that thru normal usage and with a few precautions, burn in should not be an issue for most people. If you know, or believe, burn in would be an issue for you, than you are best to avoid OLEDs, as no one knows better than yourself how you use your computer. Having said that, from my perspective, I am more than happy with the C1. So much so, that I moved both my PS5 and Switch dock from the TV room to my C1. I love the picture quality and the size...in fact, if the C1 had been available in a 42" I would have gone with that however I am glad that option wasn't yet available, as having now used the 48" C1 as a PC monitor, I will never go to a smaller screen. PC gaming now has the console experience for me. Keep in mind, the C1 does not have a display port so it requires a GPU with HDMI 2.1 (which I have) to fully utilize the 4k at 120hz. Given I do not play multiplayer, let alone competitive gaming, 120 fps is enough for me. I went from the very nice 27" 165hz MSI MAG274QRF-QD to the C1, as I wanted 4k HDR gaming on a larger screen...so for me, the 48" LG C1is exactly what I wanted!!!!
@@bilbobaggins7527 I definitely understand your point but for me I dont want to have to buy a monitor that I have to modify my use around. I work from home and aside from the taskbar of my machine I am constantly remotely connected to other machines with taskbars or other static elements. Also as you mentioned the hdmi connection, I only have a 2080S so I am still on HDMI 2.0 so I need a screen with displayport. I have the Alienware AW3420DW right now so this new one would be a drop in replacement. Also Dell specifically covers burn in under the warranty in case it does happen (which is less likely with the new one anyways)
Every monitor I’ve ever owned I’ve had to do the same thing, pull the green and red back to normalize the blue. It’s especially bad on my Asus PG279 IPS, but after normalization, the color is pretty good.
i got a ultrawide myself 32:9 the black bars are only anoying if i keep dimming off otherwise the dimming makes you forget the black bars the bars are only anoying when they are a luminated black
You better watch hdtvtests video as well I understand your points about the Alienware monitor. It is not for everyone and for every use case but it still is the best monitor for the moment.
Could there be a follow up on text clarity? There seems to be a lot of chatter on Reddit that this display doesn't show text well, and there is some "rainbowing" along text.
love to see slow mo footage. Checkered board tests. Grey uniformity. and color banding tests. That should be all standards in review displays. Especially monitors that could be used for professional work.
This video made me stressed out. I am waiting for my this exact monitor to be delivered. Thankfully I didn't get any last second regrets from this video.
@@skiii8276 There is a bit of third party soft and knowledge required to fis text rendering in windows - which looks like a temporary problem, as once true type is adapted to this sub pixel format it wont be a problem. Other than that, I use monitor for productivity mostly and even for this it's fantastic.
@@skiii8276 I haven't gotten mine yet. I just got an notification that Proshop will send it out in 3 day's. After I have tested it I can come back here and let you know what I think of it :)
What exactly do you mean when you say that this monitor and a typical oled TV have different processes? Does the monitor not look as good as the TV? If so, why not? Aren’t they both oled?
Hey Caleb, love the video as always! Would it be possible for you guys to discuss calibrating HDR on PC? I own a SpyderX Pro so I’ve done some SDR calibrations but HDR seems like a different beast entirely. Keep up the amazing work over there!
@@PSYCHOV3N0M I have a beastly monitor for HDR, 300+ local dimming zones, 1000 nits of brightness, good contrast ratio, but HDR on PC is a pain and the standard is really isnt....standard. I really wouldn't recommend splurging on an HDR display for PC.
2 minutes before getting into the topic of the video, 2 ad pops up at 1.5 mins so in total it took almost 3 minutes to actually start watching this video
I'm gonna get shot for this, but I've had SEVERAL LCD monitors with very permanent burn in, as in images stuck on the panel that are NOT going away that developed over time. And an LCD TV who's panel currently has a bunch of stuff seared into it somehow(namely a channel logo we havnt watched in months, a RU-vid video logo I watched TWO YEARS ago and a bunch of blobby stuff along the bottom and sides of the display, it shows up on everything at this point and we are replacing it shortly) . I also have an OLED and I've had Plasma. I've had no burn in on the OLED despite playing a bunch of games on it for hours on end and only at the end of my use did the Plasma start getting some Permanent stuff on it. I think from personal experience the burn in risk is probably a bit overkill, but I can see if you're using it as a monitor the risk being greater.
One thing I sadly did not understand - in 3:46, Caleb says that he notices that the quantum dots in the black area of a fine black line are glowing faintly. He then says that he'll get to talking about whether it means anything, but I don't feel like the question was really answered anywhere afterwards. Did I miss anything? Is this exclusive to thin black lines surrounded by colors?
Brilliant video for someone who has one on order. Thanks! How is the fan noise from the G Sync module? On my current one it is SO loud. I am hoping this is quieter at least.
rtings didn't record any major color inaccuracies with the monitor, and it comes with good factory calibration. Rtings optimized calibration only adjusted green, and only down by 1%, not casually cranking the green down by 12% in the menu... I don't think using a colorimeter to pull a spectral power function out of pure white is the most informed way of measuring color accuracy. Green is used by the brain to interpret brightness more than other primaries, with blue light being the least. If you want to measure color accuracy, you need to use the colorimeter to compare the color coming from the display to what the signal maps to in the respective color space. That mapping is the whole reason there's a color space. That's how every review source I've ever read does it. In a lot of your reviews you use the word "processing" like a magic bullet.
Well I just built my top of the line pc and I need a monitor, this one caught my interest so I already ordered it I should be getting it by June 16. Thanks for the info.
I still take issue with the dismissal of the matt effect screen implying worse quality black levels and therefore perceived contract in a room with ambient light. Indeed I see that Vincent Teoh has actually shown it to be noticeable in his review of this monitor. It's basic physics and is something that was very apparent a decade ago when we had matt vs gloss LCD tvs.
Regarding ultrawide and black bars: • The PS5 now supports ultrawide • Most movies are in ultrawide resolutions and they have been a joy to watch on this display with no black bars. You get more black bars on regular 16:9 TVs. They’re just on the top and bottom rather than the sides. However, for no good reason, most streaming services don’t support ultrawide displays (Netflix can), but there’s a chrome extension that works around that.
10:16 not really. Movies are typically 2.35:1. I made a habit of transcoding my bluray movies/TV series to consoles and if it were my Xbox 360, I'd crop the letterboxes as much as I can, scale it down from 1920x816 to 1892x804 while adding letterboxes to the left and right to fully accommodate the 1920 width so we get 1920x804, then transcode to Xvid/AVC/VC-1 and have the Xbox 360 stre... Or squash the image and the ultrawide display re-stretch it back and there you go. Retro consoles using the full real-estate of the screen. Movies are ultrawide, start treating them like what they actually are, the problem is those BRs are encoded with those black bars so transcoding just to post remove them would worsen the quality.
You said that a movie view on it you get black bars at the side .. But if its a 2.35 aspect radius would it not fill the screen the true size and only 16.9 would have black bars on side and 4.3
Thank you for the interesting video, personally I am also considering whether to purchase the AW3423DW. The German magazine "c't" has published an article where unsightly effects can be seen on edges with very high contrast. They attribute this error to the sub pixel arrangement of the QD-OLED, have you noticed such effects, that on a window with a bright background on the edges a kind of shadow is created with the wrong color ? As far as I can tell from the reports, you have to be relatively close to the screen to see the flaw.
I suspect Heise / c't overblows the issue. I've had the Samsung Galaxy Book Pro 13, with a 13" RGB OLED screen. There the color fringing is rather obvious (thanks to the low resolution), but even so at most I find it mildly irritating. Given that the resolution of the Alienware is much higher and viewing distances are too, I doubt most people will be bothered. But everyone will be different. Btw., to me the effect looked like something my glasses also introduce, or camera lenses: Chromatic aberrations.
