I just don't get it

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I've touched on this before, but I'm annoyed because I've wasted so much time on this crap.

So I have the aw qd-oled right beside the 27 inch 280 hz IPS oled

Running the same HDR video side-by-side, I cannot tell the difference. I just can't. No matter how many settings I **** around with. I just don't get it. I swear, the IPS can look nicer cause I can juice the brightness.

I don't have glasses, I see fine as far as I know. For the life of me, I don't understand it at all.
 
which Alienware OLED have you got? and which is the comparison IPS model?

Which HDR mode are you running the OLED in? Does it def report that it’s operating in HDR mode properly for this comparison via the OSD menu?

You should at the very least see much better black depth and contrast on the OLED?

edit: also what are you using for the source video?
black base. Usually hdr1000 or whatever though I've ran them all. It's true that I can make things out in some dark movie scenes backgrounds that I don't think I can on the IPS, and black forums are a mess with HDR enabled on the IPS... but for this I chose(imho) inferior resolution and have to worry about burn-in? It's my fault for not really thinking things through, and I got a great price on it(900 cdn - was going to buy a c2 or) but the fact that like, MSI and I think Samsung are selling this screen for 2 grand really bugs me, like this is not a 2000 dollar experience. Monitors in general seem to be a bit of a scam, should have bought a big ass TV, I can't really see the difference from 120 to 280 hz either. Or with g-sync on or not. It doesn't help that right after I bought these monitors I fell for simracing and do 98% of my gayming on a quest 2/3 now. It also doesn't help that I broke my foot at work on thursday and have 2 months off and can't even race because I can't use my braking foot and I'm not gonna **** up my lap times using one foot. Which is why I'm again paying attention to my annoyance with this monitor.

I think I'd much prefer the new 4k one. At least the 4k justifies a premium price.
 
This sounds very much like you’ve not set it up correctly

Can you answer the many questions we’ve all posted and maybe we can help identify the issue?
I've probably spent 30 hours trouble shooting this stuff. I'm not computer illiterate. Answering question about what cables (tried them all, spent like 140 bucks on cables wondering if alienware's were defective) I'm using is just not doing it for me.

I really think you guys upgrade from like, really old screens or maybe even 1080p 60 hz screens, or placebo is as strong as the psychologists say it is.

Yes, the IPS has trouble with the black-white contrast on forums. No, I don't browse any black-white forums. Ironically I discovered this issue while trying to figure this all out.

I'm bored at home with a broken foot and have spent days now on this. As far as I can tell, the only difference between these screens is some blooming on black forums, and the matte finish on the IPS.

It's all nonsense. They got my money with it, so fairplay. Even when I think I've found an advantage on the oled, I can erase it by playing with gamma and contrast and ****.

Look how many "experts" gave diablo 4 9/10 and 10/10. That is a 2/10 game. And people argued on its behalf for the first month of the games release so hard, they sincerely thought it was the best game in the world. I could tell within first glance at everything in the game that it was useless, but these people were so insistent that it was the best... right until they realized there was nothing of merit. IDK. Tbh, I miss my old 4k/60hz 300 dollar 55 inch TV. I've spent so much money because I took people at their word that all this **** mattered. Now I'm left with these small dim screens I have to baby or they'll fall over and die.

I should have known when I saw stuff like "color accuracy", like what the ****. What does that even mean. Why would that even matter. When you're looking at the rocket launcher in doom: eternal, does the exact shade of the metal really matter? Does it need to match exactly your IRL rocket launcher? Or if the cement is a shade darker in forza than you suspect the cement actually is in the bahamas? If you're an entomologist and you need it to be 100% accurate for your field work, then I mean, absolutely.

I keep forgetting that the average GPU out there is a gtx 1060. People are poor. They don't have money for this ****. Of course they are going to desperately justify their decision. Nobody can be honest with themselves. So you have a bunch of people who convince themselves their 1500.00 oled was justified and that diablo 4 really is as good as the reviewers say. Well, they can walk away from a 70 dollar game purchase once they finally come to terms with the fact it isn't what they hoped it was. But a 1500 dollar purchase, they are going to be full cope on that. Like, hang onto the brilliance of their decision making for dear life.
 
OP thus far has only told us they have a (refurbished) DWF. We have no idea on the exact model of the IPS display they have. Is it a top end LCD? Who knows? We certainly haven't been told and can look it up.

Hence, the questions to OP about if they've got everything right and correct setup for their comparison. Which is normal to bring up in case they missed something.

We don't know how they are running HDR content:
Is the cables used even able to transmit the signal? HDMI cables can still transmit the video signal, without the HDR aspect if it can't carry it as the cable was from a previous gen.
Are they viewing HDR content with a HDR capable player? Trying to watch the LG 2020 OLED Demo for example on Firefox won't work as HDR doesn't work on it. Edge however, will work. In a previous post of theirs, they inquired about using Chrome in full screen, but a quick search around suggests that Chrome doesn't support HDR playback.
Were they using the same adjusted display settings (in Windows) for their old display (IPS) for the new display (OLED) as well? As this would change how things look on the OLED compared to the IPS but they are both getting a modified display signal that's adjusted for the IPS. Or was it individually modified? If so, how was it modified?

The issue is, all of these things (and more) are something easy that could have been missed and could have impacted on how the display works and appears to show "no difference" to an IPS in OPs case. And OPs last post in this thread tells us they're not tech savvy. So I'm guessing there'll be no progress on this front.

The only thing we do know for certain, is that OP plays games, and does not do anything image related. Hence their comment on why the need for impressive colours for stuff in Doom. So we know that colour accuracy for things like video and photos is not their use case. From what they have posted previously, being able to see stuff on screen that would have been invisible on an IPS, is not a concern for them. Colours and brightness that pops from the screen appears to be what they were going for. Which means their existing (or future) display doesn't even need to be a high end IPS, since they have been adjusting the displays already. It just needs to be bright and pop. Which is not what any OLED is. So the punt they made for it (a previous post of theirs) for the refurbished DWF (unsure if from Alienware or from third party, this was never stated), would suggest it's just them having buyers remorse; which would have nothing to do with OLED itself as a technology not being better in any way than IPS.
It's the 240 hz(oc 280) alienware 27 inch 1440p ips

Chrome doesn't show HDR? The youtube videos let me pick the HDR option and they have the HDR icon while running? I would be pumped if this is the case, though I've downloaded all the like 40 gig HDR heavy hitting movies (blade runner 2049, interstellar, covenant etc) for VLC player and they are similarly unimposing. Interstellar looks rough in particular, though I don't think that's the screens. Covenant is the best looking movie I've ever seen, though Scott is a shell of himself at this point.

I'm running the DP 1.4 cables that came with it, though I've also tried hdmi 2.0, and replacement cables of both types that were the highest numbers amazon showed for sale. I'm not gonna turn the lights on and look closely at the wires, but they were the highest available numbered cables 8 months ago as I said, and this is at all manner of 8/10/12 bit and 60/100/165 hz.

I don't clone the screens, I just generally window-shift-arrow key them back and forth endlessly like a dunce, trying to convince myself it was worth not getting a brighter, larger 4k screen.

That LG oled 2020 video everyone posts looks just as black on this IPS with some crude 1970s flashlight backlighting as it does on the oled.

I'm not angry btw, I've wasted much more money than a dubious monitor decision, and it's not like it looks bad or anything, and it was dirt cheap(for an oled). Like I said, until this broken foot I was exclusively playing iracing in the quest anyways. Doom Eternal looks good on the glossy display, and I can still play which I was pleased with, I was worried I wouldn't have the muscle memory for PB swaps anymore but it's like riding a bike. I'd rather be playing it on the 280 hz than the oled though, but I have the IPS setup to the side so I can't really without re-doing my desk which I don't care enough to do.

edit: I just watched 10 minutes of spaceship nonsense again, it's the same thing. One is longer. It's the same damn thing
 
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