World first QD-OLED monitor from Dell and Samsung (34 inch Ultrawide 175hz)

I've had that thing where it goes black for a split second on both but it's quite rare maybe happens like once every few days for me. The other thing that can happen is a horizontal line of green pixels suddenly flashes across the bottom of the screen and again both monitors have this, but again it's quite rare and maybe I should try a different DP cable

The buttons feel the same to me they look the same as well
 
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This definitely a bright/stick pixel or is it classified as dead?


When I zoom out it looks like a red dot on a white background but when I take a close up macro shot it looks like the green and blue sub pixels are dead leaving just the red one turned on




 
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It looks weird. It's not burn in, burn in is almost always a Symmetrical shape from a logo, UI, HUD, icons etc. it's not banding because banding is vertical or horizontal straight lines across the screen.

This has the shape of liquid, like if I spilled some coffee over half of the thing you might expect it to have a similar shape. I would RMA as has been suggested, something is wrong with though not sure what


Edit: ahh yeah it looks much better now, maybe just keep an eye on it
 
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Was doing the windows HDR calibration on the new aw3423dw and noticed highlights clipping between 930 and 950nits. Checked graphics menu in windows settings and in there it also says the monitor has peak brightness of 950 nits.

This is 100 nits lower than my first monitor. Anyone else come across this?
 
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I'm really glad to see today that Microsoft is adding native RGB support to Windows 11 but not working to fix the sub pixel rendering of OLED monitors
 
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redkrptonite said:
Did anyones replacement monitor look like it was a refurbished one? My replacement just came with the the stand only and a plain cardboard box. The stand was pretty scratched up and the monitor had a lot of marks on the screen. Thankfully the marks have cleaned off and i can use my old stand. Came with firmware 103.
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My replacement was brand new and manufactured just 4 weeks before it reached my house. But from what I understand refurbs are common with this monitor, there are a lot of people online complaining the replacement had damages etc.
 
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Never thought I'd be in a position where my monitor is the loudest thing on my PC setup (when GPU not stressed)
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Weird, both of mine are dead silent - can't even hear the fan with my ear pressed right up against the vents. They might be using different fan suppliers and one supplier is better than the other, or maybe the noisy ones are just defects
 
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I suspect they don't, without having checked their terms and conditions, simply because I know that on that 27 inch LG OLED monitor some of the anti burn in features are disabled by default and I couldn't see them disabling safety features if they warranted the panel against burn in
 
Shots fired, LG makes surprising claim that Samsungs QD OLED panels are more susceptible to burn in than LG OLEDs

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LG Display Claims Samsung's QD OLED More Susceptible to Screen Burn Than LG's WOLED

Welcome to the battle of the Korean OLED display makers, where LG Display is now claiming that Samsung's new-ish QD OLED displays are far more susceptible to screen burn, compared to its own WOLED displays. In a way, this is LG getting back at Samsung, as the latter has criticised LG for quite...
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By the way LG doesn't have its own data; it's made this claim and pointed to Rtings for data. That's because Rtings just updated their long term reliability test, we're now at month 2

And after 2 months of displaying frequent rolling static content, the Samsung s95b and Sony a95k both have visible burn in while the LG C2 and LG G2 do not yet have any visible burn in

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How Long Should A TV Last? Our 100 TV Accelerated Longevity And Burn-In Test

We've decided to run 100 TVs through a grueling 2-year test, turning on and off eight times a day, for a total of 126 hours per week, with each TV at its brightest settings.
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Here is the results for the Samsung and Sony QD OLED panels - some burn in pattern of a rectangular bar is visible in the bottom of the screen, it's slightly worse on the Samsung than the Sony








And here is the LG C2 and G2


 
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Meddling-Monk said:
Hmmm, it might just be my eyes, but I do notice there is a different type of burn starting up on the LG's in the middle of the screen vs the Samsungs. Also, on both LG's there's a very weird round, almost 50p in size dark spot in the top right region of the screen that the Samsung doesn't have according to those screens. I am unsure if that's a manufacture defect, or if that's from screen burn in though.

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Ah-HA! That small circle IS screen burn, it's on the Samsungs too, just not as obvious. I would hazzard a guess that circle was done by a UI element that is of a particular colour, that burns harder on normal OLED and less so on the QD, much like the lower part of the QD is more obvious vs the normal OLED on the LG.
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Here is some more

Sony a90j oled



A90K oled




LG CX oled






And these are all using LG OLED panels and all show burn in. So LG should be careful when trying to claim their tech is better; all they've proven is that QD-OLED isn't more burn in resistant they're both about even so far in terms of failing to prevent burn in.


These tests are still a little bit unrealistic, but it's still the most realistic testing for burn in anyone has done before. Each month that Rtings tests simulates 600 hours of use on the TV displaying varied content at 100% brightness
 
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redkrptonite said:
They cant just charge you. Its down to them to arrange collection.
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Maybe works bit different for you guys. My RMA monitor was delivered via courier and theyb included a return label, all I had to do was call the courier and ask them to pickup the dead monitor from my house and Alienware gave me 10 working days to arrange the pickup or they would charge me for the new monitor at full price to my credit card
 
After owning the monitor for several months now; the most annoying feature is one I have no solution for.
And surely I can't be the only one who notices this.

When on a web page or application for that matter which has a white or near white background; moving the mouse around makes it hard to track - I find its very easy to visually lose track of where the mouse pointer is when moving at speed. I enabled shadows for the pointer in the windows settings which helps a little bit but I still lose it at time. This doesn't happen on any of the VA or IPS monitors I have.
 
VortexA1 said:
Any tips with HDR in windows, I enable Windows 'HDR on' and the display looks a bit washed out.

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Enable HDR when watching a HDR movie or game, otherwise disable it.

And run the windows HDR calibration app.

If you have the DWF version of the monitor, put the panel in hdr400 mode, hdr1000 mode is broken and only work's correctly on the DW monitor
 
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Rtings had added the Alienware and Samsung QD OLED monitors into the burn in test to see if they are any better than the TVs

QD OLED TVs suffer from very bad burn in between 6 and 12 months of usage at 100% brightness when displaying static content of the color white for several hours each day. Rtings believes QD OLED panels are very vulnerable to burn in with the color white

 
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