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

These monitors are great for OLED HDR gaming, but absolute gash for SDR content due to Windows being crap. I'm using Ubuntu for everything other than gaming and it looks so much better.
 
This is not an accurate statement for SDR content. they are only crap for SDR in Windows if you leave HDR mode enabled in Windows, which we all should know by now given it's mentioned a lot in this thread, is something not to do. Only enable HDR when HDR stuff is being consumed, then back to normal mode.

In normal mode in Windows, SDR content is about as accurate as you can get on QD-OLED when in the creator mode.

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Must admit I'm somewhat regretting my AW3423DW purchase when I have it down at 15-20% brightness for 95% of the time I use it.. and £3-400 gets relatively decent monitors these days!
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Why is the brightness an issue though? You should be using a lower brightness out of habit anyway for the sake of your eyes as well as keeping the display in a suitable setting for your environment, 15-20% is a bit low for my liking as that's far below the 90-10cd/m2 luminance recognised as the standard for an office environment. I chose 32 as that represents around 100cd/m2 on my calibrator and that's the brightness my eyes are accustomed to after so many years on calibrated LCDs for SDR usage and productivity.

This makes no difference in normal use to getting them most out of the monitor. Where it matters is in HDR mode for gaming or media viewing, and when in HDR mode you have no control over the brightness as the HDR content is taking over the brightness output and you will then be getting the most out of it. No 3-400 quid monitor will come close to any OLED in that context, no LCD monitor ever for that matter will :p
 
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This is not an accurate statement for SDR content. they are only crap for SDR in Windows if you leave HDR mode enabled in Windows, which we all should know by now given it's mentioned a lot in this thread, is something not to do.
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I don't leave it in HDR mode for SDR content.
 
That's bizarre then as there's no other review etc stating SDR is rubbish on these, quite the opposite, also the factory calibration chart also verifies this. That's been my own finding too, it's actually better for SDR when in the creator mode set to sRGB than a calibrated IPS with a hardware lut.

You may well have the Dell icc profile enabled which does mess up sRGB, I suggest checking that and removing it as it's not needed and only messes colours up. Either that or something is not set up right on your Windows/OSD.
 
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Photo not capturing it the best but basically its the taskbar
Owned since near release, work on it (taskbar disabled as much as possible but yeah W10/11 doesn't really adhere to it very well), usually do a pixel refresh every lunch also.
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So I finally returned it after all this time, didn't realise it was so painless, they've sent me another without even indicating how they want my existing one back.

New one seems to have no dead pixels that I can spot which is a plus. What I have noticed though after 3 days without using this (and back to mw AW3420DW instead) the sub pixel layout issue I may be very sensitive to/text fringing? To the point I went and got glasses.
Now obviously my eyes are deteriorating as I age but other monitors I notice are not causing this issue of headache + tired eyes but this one is (40% brightness).
 
Here's mine currently in terms of screen burn, note that this is only noticeable on the grey shade shown and the photo is slightly over exposed for emphasis

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That's with 3 days WFH, then being used all evening for editing most nights too. Probably 12hrs use most nights.
 
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I wonder what they'll do for replacements 3 years after these are discontinued.

It seems that even with minor burn-in, they don't even ask questions and just replace them, so it seems a no brainer to use it towards the end of the warranty.
 
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Here's mine currently in terms of screen burn, note that this is only noticeable on the grey shade shown and the photo is slightly over exposed for emphasis

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That's with 3 days WFH, then being used all evening for editing most nights too. Probably 12hrs use most nights.
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Did you try a screen refresh to see if that helped?
 
Yes two panel refreshes done in the last 2 months, no change, the actual pixels have that level of wear on them.

Seems only LG's panel refresh can completely rid of low levels of burn in like this, maybe Dell's refresh isn't as aggressive though which might be why.
 
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That's the plan!

No need to sell either if Dell implement revisions that solve the burn in issue before warranty is up!
 
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mrk said:
That's the plan!

No need to sell either if Dell implement revisions that solve the burn in issue before warranty is up!
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You know, there is that too. I could consider just keeping this monitor long term. The ability to do 5160x2160 via DLDSR is a game changer for me. I could easily keep the monitor for a decade if it did not pop.

But if I can sell it and add a couple of hundred quid and go new, I will do that. Fresh 3 or 6 year warranty depending which route I go.
 
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So out of sheer will power, I whatsapped Dell and now have a new QD-OLED on the way. No ideas if it's another DW or a DWF, I suspect DWF because the DW is end of line.

Took about 10 mins and a few photos all through whatsapp.

This is why I will stick with Dell/Alienware.
 
mrk said:
So out of sheer will power, I whatsapped Dell and now have a new QD-OLED on the way. No ideas if it's another DW or a DWF, I suspect DWF because the DW is end of line.

Took about 10 mins and a few photos all through whatsapp.

This is why I will stick with Dell/Alienware.
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Erm... Bwahahaha. How many replacements now? :D
 
But yeah, I agree. Dell have the best monitor warranty in the business. Been buying Dell monitors mainly the past 20 or so years now for that reason.
 
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