ASUS ProArt PQ22UC 21.6″ Portable UHD 4K HDR OLED Monitor

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So bets on how much this will be?

If the dell 30" oled cost £3000+, I imagine this will at the very least cost £2000, silly money once again especially when you can get 55" 4k HDR OLED for <£1500

 

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It uses an inexpensive JOLED printing technique. One video a guy states under $1,000.

Well that will be rather good then, still $900/1000 is an awful lot for a 21.6" screen.....

 

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Yea so we can buy one oled and be done with it no no thats not how it works first you have to be milked with lcd until you beg and beg and then you can finally buy an oled.

If i got an oled now i would not buy a tv for ten years at least and they know that too.

Yup the monitor market is just a mugs game now, well it has been for a good 1-2/3 years now....

The problem is, as time goes on with more and more of the same old LCD monitors that keep on being released, people will eventually get fed up and move on to just buy a better and cheaper TV instead. You just have to look at various forums now to see how many have already jumped shipped to a TV.

Personally I am set for a long time now, even if monitor manufacturers were to bring OLED monitors for an affordable price in 1-3 years time, no thanks, I got tired of waiting and there is no reason for me to get a good quality monitor now especially when I probably won't be PC gaming by the time oled monitors hit.

 

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The 120hz 4k oled from lg is on my wishlist lol but they also milk with the panel sizes too. Did you notice this trend with lg lcd monitors too.

The whole over sized monitor game is the old over selling scam leaving people having to pay extra for a 27 or 55 inch screen. This really bothers me at times that they get away with this scam.

They will never give me a 40 inch oled will they?

Probably not for a long time Next best thing will be that rollable OLED display (be great for 21.9 content too)

At first I thought 55" would be too big but now that I am use to it, I want even bigger!

The curve with inches/prices is extremely weird.
You can buy a 5" 4K smartphone for 400-450 pounds (keep in mind that these contain other materials, expensive materials inside, not only the panel);
21.6 4K OLED monitor maybe for 900 pounds;
30" 4K OLED monitor for 3000 pounds;
and then a 55" OLED TV for 1450 pounds.

Where do TVs and smartphones get these discounts/funds/financing from?

TV and especially the smartphone market are considerably larger than the monitor market thus the monitor market needs higher margins.

And as giboo confirmed a year or so ago, retailers are upping the price all round for monitors due to all the returns for bleed etc., as he put it, it was either that or they start deducting money from people returning monitors (according to the law, they could deduct up to 25%)

 

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Low TVs prices stimulate the market for more demand.
Also, why don't TVs suffer the same manufacturing defects?

Probably monitor manufacturers cutting corners as well as QC to try and keep the prices down.

Tvs are certainly less of a minefield but there is still a lottery there too i.e. with 2016 oleds, you had vignetting, tint + vertical banding and with 2017 models, the vertical banding is more severe as well as the tinting issues, however, no vignetting. IIRC, the banding is just a fault due to the printing method that LG use for OLED and then with LCD based TVs, you still have bleed issues along with clouding etc.

My 2017 OLED has some vertical banding on 0-5% grey and a little yellow tint on white but unless in test scenarios i.e. 100% full colours fields and so on in a pitch black room, it is a non issue and if you do happen to notice it on some content, it is only for a split second, either way, give me those 2 issues over bleed, severe IPS glow and lack lustre blacks any day