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Mini LED is getting better, but the blooming still gives it away compared to OLED. Feels like a good middle ground for brightness, just not quite “there” yet.
Mini/micro LED QHD monitors
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Through my months of searching, There was always a drawback for one of the monitors, It seems a matter of pick your poison at the minute. I'm happy with 90% of the OLED without the potential issues with an OLED as a productivity use case.
Unfortunately not. It is still showing as held at local depot on two trackers, Shows as in Coventry on another. I tried the Royal mail phone line but that states the tracking number is not recognised so I have no idea what is going on...
I spoke with Royal Mail who then sent me on to ParcelForce world wide. They couldn't see any flags in their system stating the parcel was damaged but did find a note stating it was. They have now raised a case with the local branch (It has arrived there so some trackers are incorrect) to investigate the parcel and now awaiting feedback direct from them.
They are away to check if the internal contents are damaged or if it is just the external packaging and as to why it has sat in the warehouse since Friday morning.
They are away to check if the internal contents are damaged or if it is just the external packaging and as to why it has sat in the warehouse since Friday morning.
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Not the best vibes though from that, sorry to hear dude - at least if its been damaged, replacement SHOULD be relatively easy!
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As someone who has both, I know exactly what you mean - the trick being is for people like me and Michty who use our monitors for work as well as personal, OLED just isn't there in terms of long term resilience; and that's coming from someone who has OLEDs on both main TVs in the house, where, by nature, there is more variable content.
I'd LOVE to get an OLED monitor, but I know I'd have long term retention sooner rather than later, and that is a real breaker; MicroLED isn't perfect, but it's far better than a normal IPS panel, and many of them can do pretty decent HDR; so yes, it's no where near as good as OLED, but its considerably better than a bog standard VA/IPS, and doesn't come with any major real world retention risks either; plus no flicker or other issues when using VRR which SOME OLEDs have had issues with. OLED is a step up again in terms of motion clarity and colours/blacks, but it still not able to take long term static images without retention within a normal monitor lifespan, so it's just not suitable for our use case.
I guess ultimately cases like ours are the ideal niche for these sorts of displays; competent combination gaming+work usage in one screen; if we only gamed/fullscreen youtubed and a bit of browsing sometimes, the OLED would be the way forward, but we don't, we have hours and hours of largely static windows, and until that is no longer an issue in say 3-5 years of constant 8+ hours a day use, that's just always going to be a dealbreaker, unless OLED becomes SO rediculously cheap AND extends lifespan, we don't care if we have to replace a screen every 3 years.
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TBH I don't think its that niche anymore, it definitely seems to be increasingly popular that if people are after a single monitor setup then they can't really commit to OLED for both 8 hours of work on + games.
I guess you'll have those that run two screens (that's what I'm doing at the minute, Pulsar IPS and a 1440p OLED) so I don't have to run the risk of the JIRA logo being permanently stuck to my screen forever - but I'd ideally love to just run a single display.
I was tempted by the TCL 27R83U (can't get it in the UK via usual means) so might order that at some stage to try out - but it's good to see more mini-LED monitors becoming available. One of the major concerns are the UK and EU power consumption limits around these. Some of the 'newer' mini-LED monitors just aren't releasing here at all because of that.
mini-LED monitors use a lot less power than their CCFL equivalents though?
I used to use a Lenovo + AOC combo and then switched to a double Xiaomi mini-LED combo - since switching my monitors over, my power draw dropped by 100w
at idle (PC + 2x monitor), my setup used to draw 350w and now it's 250w...and on average i use my PC about 8 hours a day, so that's a significant leccy saving
Not holding out much hope for it currently and still not heard from the delivery company yet so we shall see what happens over the next few days. At least I don't get charged until delivery though...
I wonder if it's less about power consumption and maybe about efficiency? I'm not sure the exact specifics, it's only from seeing the newer AOC VA 1440p mini LED monitor (Q27G40XMN - the latest version of the Q27G3XMN) which AOC said wouldn't release in Europe / the UK because of that.
Actually - looking into it now it's 100% about efficiency rather than consumption.
as in power efficiency? that's so odd
even if it's inefficient in LED terms, it stills draws a lot less power than the equivalent CCFL!
Just comparing the overall usage from some charts as well and even the mini-LED 4k monitors with 1152 zones don't consume as much as OLED monitors do.as in power efficiency? that's so odd
even if it's inefficient in LED terms, it stills draws a lot less power than the equivalent CCFL!
Maybe some other regulation or something stopping them being released over here? I know that AOC monitor got insanely hot during use.
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I'd agree with what I've seen of them. The extra brightness over OLED can be very noticeable in higher APL scenes, though I'm led to believe there can be more input lag with HDR due to the processing that goes on.
I occasionally WFH but only use my laptop display and a 27" IPS they've provided for that. Both my TV and primary monitor are OLED and I have no concerns about longevity as the former is used for mixed content (TV, films and games, no noticeable burn in after 3 years usage), and the latter almost exclusively for gaming; I do browse a little or watch the odd video, but I tend to do most of that on my phone these days.