You can still tell though, I'm watching it now on my ****** chromebook (764p and TERRIBLE TN panel) and it looks fisking insane. It's my next purchase for sure, I couldn't justify paying >£600 for 1440p UW but those OLEDs, np paying £1k - it's why I went with the 29'' LG. Absolutely banging for the price (£230ish).
Yup that is a great price for the 29" freesync monitor, pretty much one of the few "correct" prices for monitors imo.
I am actually wondering, by having too much detail like as you see in his face, maybe TV shows will look worse as a result. lol. Great for Sci-Fi stuff, but seeing all the imperfections on the actors faces, not so much
I get the feeling even Freesync 2 monitors with HDR are going to be very expensive also and without HDR it is essentially Freesync with LFC as far as I can tell. So I may not bother holding my breath for such monitor and grab something else if I see a good deal in the mean time. Way I see it is, if I am going to spend big money on a monitor, it will need to be an 4K HDR 120Hz OLED one, which won't be available for a while yet.
haha true
IIRC, when blu ray was first starting out, a lot of the actors/actresses didn't like the idea of it due to it showing any imperfections/wrinkles in their skin etc.
But that is one problem with OLED (well not really a problem with OLED....), with it being pretty much nigh on perfect (especially if you get it calibrated properly), it will show up a lot of things that people perceive to be "issues" with the OLED tech, such as noise, banding, blocky looking areas (mostly on the black areas) that wouldn't otherwise be present or at least not as noticeable on lesser TV models so you really would be wanting to drive nothing but the very best quality content on it in order to mitigate some of those "issues" found in the "source".
And yup, like I said earlier, there is no point in hanging around for "true" HDR and/or OLED monitors if you have a set budget of <£1000, as unless the retailers take of their increased prices from all the returns and monitor manufacturers drop the price of monitors across the board and/or the pound suddenly goes back to what it was pre-brexit (which will not happen for a VERY long time, if ever.....), any monitors using good tech such as FALD to give true HDR support or/and OLED are going to cost a lot.
Also, those upcoming monitors would have to be taking the current top end monitors places in terms of price in order for the current top end models to drop to a new price but that won't happen either as these new ones are coming in at a considerably higher price i.e.
Current monitor pricing:
34" 1440 100HZ gsync 21.9 IPS - £990-1200
32" 4k IPS/VA 60HZ - about £600-800 (I can't see any freesync models)
27" 4k 60HZ gsync IPS - £990
New" upcoming monitor pricing:
32" 144HZ 4k HDR gsync FALD - £1500, more likely to be closer to £2000
32" "fake" HDR 4k IPS 60HZ freesync monitor - £960 (with dell producing the same monitors, price could drop to about £850-900 here though but not that it matters anyway as it is pretty much just a current/normal 4K IPS display with the hdr badge slapped on the box...)
Dell's OLED 4k 60HZ - £3000
Although given that the new 2017 models are being set up for display purposes in currys etc. today, hopefully it won't be long until they have that deal on again.
