Soldato
It just seems we've been talking about IPS low contrast and VA dark level smearing for decades now, without any real improvement.
I'm not wedded to IPS but I'd need dark-level transitions below 8.33ms - ie true 120Hz. A shame that almost no VA panels can even manage this - all the while advertising themselves as "144hz" "165 hz" etc. With dark level transitions between 20ms and 40ms typical. What a joke.
Then outside of Nano IPS, most of the cheap IPS screens have their own response time issues. Again, advertising 144hz but with typical transition times from 12ms up to 16ms. And with VRR implementations that often have the transition times getting worse the lower the refresh rate. How is none of this fixed yet?
So many stupid niggles. 27" curved screens where the curve is completely unnecessary. 34" ultra-wide flat screens where a curve is pretty much a requirement for this format
You look at so many of these monitors and you think, "With a bit more care or attention to detail this could have been great." But whoever is designing these things, they seem to make a few sane choices and then always at least one or two irrational/bizarro choices. Or cost cutting choices, I guess.
Yep, absolutely worst thing I can think of to buy blind from spec sheets and reviews too. Then you can pretty much narrow it down to only Dell and AOC that have decent warranty's. It's not even as if many of the compromised models are aimed at business models, most likely just penny pinching to increase margins.
Am keeping my fingers crossed for a Dell or AOC 38" IPS, 144Hz, 3840 x 1600, USB-C + Power Delivery, KVM swich, HDMI 2.1 at CES.