Easy, your eyes adjust to the better colours
I only had a chance to try a few games for a short while yesterday.
In Cyberpunk the colours looked awesome, the HDR just makes things pop, love it. But you do notice the lower resolution unfortunately. I noticed it in characters, objects etc. It just looks a bit lower detail somehow, hard to explain it. But to be honest I did expect that. Lower resolution is lower resolution at the end of the day. Not sure how you or others don’t see it.
Tried Mortal Kombat 11 also which is another HDR title. Again as above I noticed the lower resolution in the character models. Definitely not as sharp. I used to play this game with no aa at 4K and now that is impossible as it is jaggies galore, so need to enable TAA unfortunately. But let me tell you something, when you enable HDR, boy does it transform the game. Even the bloody menus look awesome due to great use of HDR. Seeing all the special moves like Raiden’s electric sparks was something else. I mean I did see it before on my OLED TV, but I was not sitting as close to appreciate it like I did yesterday.
I have a lot more testing to do yet though. One other positive with this monitor having the perfect blacks is when cutscenes or menus come up in 16:9 it did not bother me as much as I thought it would. Especially at night, as you don’t even see the sides of the monitor.
The monitor actually fits perfectly on my desk. Looks awesome too. Some say it is too small, but for me I think it is perfect as any bigger I would need to remove my speakers from the sides and also be forced to use a monitor arm as the way the stand is I can’t make the monitor go back any further.
Not heard mine, but then that maybe because my room is not exactly silent.