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

jwilliamson47 said:
This is coming with a lot more zones.

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Acer Predator X34 V3 Announced with 34" Ultrawide Panel, 180Hz and Mini LED Backlight - TFTCentral

Share this contentAnnounced for CES 2024 is the forthcoming Acer Predator X34 V3. This is a 34″ ultrawide screen with a 21:9 aspect ratio, 3440 x 1440 resolution and 180Hz....[click link for more]
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Damn, that looks nice, thanks for the heads up. VA too, which I prefer as long as it's a good VA panel (shoot me IPS bros :p)

edit - Wait, this is IPS I think
 
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jwilliamson47 said:
Bit strange I've seen it reported as an IPS and VA depending on the outlet lol. I rather it was VA.
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Predator range has long been IPS so I'd stick with that.

It seems VA panels struggle to get lots of zones for whatever reason, it's always IPS that ends up over 1000, let alone this monitor going over 2000.

Looks like it'll be a great monitor but the IPS glow, standard contrast and usually backlight bleed drives me mental with IPS. Decent fast VA panels and I don't really tend to notice smearing much (and I don't play any super competitive FPS).
 
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Audioboxer said:
Predator range has long been IPS so I'd stick with that.

It seems VA panels struggle to get lots of zones for whatever reason, it's always IPS that ends up over 1000, let alone this monitor going over 2000.

Looks like it'll be a great monitor but the IPS glow, standard contrast and usually backlight bleed drives me mental with IPS. Decent fast VA panels and I don't really tend to notice smearing much (and I don't play any super competitive FPS).
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I'm the same, went from an IPS to VA and didn't notice the smearing and the first thought was wow, i now have contrast :p
 
Went ahead with the Y34wz-30, so I'll report back on it. Hardly anyone seems to have it, likely because of the move now to OLED and this being a "late" to the market VA panel.

I've got a 2019 VA panel in the MPG341CQR and while it did review quite well at the time this Lenovo panel is Samsung HVA I believe and its colour ratings are a bit better. Will test out the HDR as well.

If it's a decent semi-sideways upgrade I'll keep it and wait to see what UW OLEDs are like by the end of the year or at CES next year. Really want text fringing fixed and some more assurances around burn-in rather than me changing my behaviour for the monitor (obsession with restricting your wallpapers/not having lots of static desktop icons/taskbar behaviour/etc).
 
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jwilliamson47 said:
DWF back on offer. Might contact Dell to clarify their burn-in policy.
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Yeah that's a decent price if you can combine it with cashback. My bluelight discount unfortunately only works on certain monitors (10% off on Monitors (G, AW, S, SE)).

You can maybe pick these up even a bit cheaper if you go open box/returns/2nd hand now, but there is just no way I'd consider an OLED monitor unless I had a burn-in warranty. Many warranties not being transferable from original buyer.

I would like to say I'm tempted but I just don't think I'll get over text fringing and then burn in worries over me being too lazy to change my behaviours around desktop/work use.

Enjoy if you get one!
 
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Audioboxer said:
Yeah that's a decent price if you can combine it with cashback. My bluelight discount unfortunately only works on certain monitors (10% off on Monitors (G, AW, S, SE)).

You can maybe pick these up even a bit cheaper if you go open box/returns/2nd hand now, but there is just no way I'd consider an OLED monitor unless I had a burn-in warranty. Many warranties not being transferable from original buyer.

I would like to say I'm tempted but I just don't think I'll get over text fringing and then burn in worries over me being too lazy to change my behaviours around desktop/work use.

Enjoy if you get one!
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It's a shame there isn't that many miniled options right now, especially if you want an ultrawide.
 
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jwilliamson47 said:
It's a shame there isn't that many miniled options right now, especially if you want an ultrawide.
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There's a reasonable number, the AOC AGON AG344UXM is quite cheap on Rainforest warehouse deals, but a criticism of that monitor is how bright it remains in SDR at the lowest brightness lol. Burn your retinas doing spreadsheets. And of course it's IPS, though as I said before when HDR is on IPS doesn't seem much of an issue. It's just in SDR/games without HDR you're going to have poor contrast/glow more noticeable.

The AOC has no curve either which I think I may prefer on a 32", but no curve on an UW isn't as ergonomic IMO. Even an 1800R helps a little with your field of vision.

UW VA panels with miniled seem to be rare/abandoned, but then again, outwith real budget monitors VA seems to be quite abandoned full stop now. Giving that monitor above a chance given it's a Samsung HVA panel.
 
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Audioboxer said:
There's a reasonable number, the AOC AGON AG344UXM is quite cheap on Rainforest warehouse deals, but a criticism of that monitor is how bright it remains in SDR at the lowest brightness lol. Burn your retinas doing spreadsheets. And of course it's IPS, though as I said before when HDR is on IPS doesn't seem much of an issue. It's just in SDR/games without HDR you're going to have poor contrast/glow more noticeable.

The AOC has no curve either which I think I may prefer on a 32", but no curve on an UW isn't as ergonomic IMO. Even an 1800R helps a little with your field of vision.

UW VA panels with miniled seem to be rare/abandoned, but then again, outwith real budget monitors VA seems to be quite abandoned full stop now. Giving that monitor above a chance given it's a Samsung HVA panel.
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Can't be worse than the Phillips VA which is supposedly very slow.
 
I've replaced 2 for burn-in, 1 was replaced for those screen marks that could not be removed, hence I am on the 4th currently after 3 replacements. The next replacement under warranty will probably be for something defective.




















Probably :p
 
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Nexus18 said:
Think we can thank likes of @mrk for them reducing how many replacements one can have :p
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So true. I am still on my first panel. He would see dust on his panel or a smudge and get it replaced. Lol.

They should have just refused to do business with rather than punish us :cry:
 
mrk said:
I've replaced 2 for burn-in, 1 was replaced for those screen marks that could not be removed, hence I am on the 4th currently after 3 replacements. The next replacement under warranty will probably be for something defective.




















Probably :p
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Were any of your replacements refurbed panels or brand new?

I’ve had one replacement back in Sept and thankfully it was brand new unopened in the proper box packaging you’d expect as a new purchase.

This was after they were telling me the replacements they send out were refurbished panels. A friend of mine received a refurbished panel and was packaged in an unmarked box etc

I was surprised I received a brand new panel, with the latest firmware at the time, especially as they stopped selling the DW quite some time ago now.
 
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