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

Ouch lol

"unless you have your lights off, the black levels are no better than a regular IPS LCD monitor, this coating is what I'd describe as taking the worst of gloss and worst of matte and somehow combining them and this defeats the purpose of an OLED and that's a problem."

he carries on and says "this doesn't mean the QD-OLED is useless in daytime viewing, but my LG CX 48 inch in my office has significantly better black level performance"


 
Curtis vincent said:
I used to have a PG27UQ, screen looked great but omg, that fan, it was unbearable. I RMA'd the monitor like 6 times, each time they gave me a replacement there were dead pixels. In the end I was like this is bs I want a refund, they refunded the full price despite me owning it 2.5 years. I bought the LG-GN950, kept the 1.5k and called it a day lol.
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Yeah gsync ultimate monitors are noisy, that needs to be fixed
 
Rich said:
It ran its pixel refresh when i turned it on today and now I have a green line of pixels from the top to the bottom. Lovely stuff.


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:cry: Lmao
 
Now that we have data from the TVs we can see they are significantly brighter. Both SDR and HDR brightness on the Samsung QD-OLED TV is 42% brighter than the Alienware monitor.

And also interestingly 2022 has been a good year for brightness across the board. LG added a heatsink to its G2 OLED this year and we now have the data for it, the new G2 OLED is 15% brighter than the Alienware QD-OLED
 
TNA said:
Probably the reason why they are confident in offering 3 years warranty that includes burn in. That said, the Alienware is plenty bright in HDR. 15% more is not going to make much difference other than maybe hurting your eyes at that distance. With TV’s it’s different as one sits far away.

Besides the LG G2 and the Samsung QD-OLED TV’s are like 55” or bigger as far as I am aware, so I am not sure why you mentioned them really, apart from your need to justify your decision ;)
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That's a good point, the lower brightness could be a mitigation techniques used given it's a monitor

For the consumer the 3 years is great, whether it's good for Alienware or not remains to be seen - burn in is something that is hard to predict or measure in a lab without actually putting in the hours - we don't know and Alienware to much of a degree won't know either how the panels will hold up. They obviously belive it's more resistant and they even lowered the brightness to help it along but if burn in was no risk then they'd do lifetime burn in warranty like Samsung does on QLED so we'll just have to wait a few years and see what happens
 
2Thumbs said:
Don't think this has been posted yet, was only uploaded yesterday. Not the most technical or thorough of reviews, but footage of the display in action might quench the thirst of some of us still waiting for it to arrive. :)

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It's in stock downunder, no queue can order now and get delivered tomorrow
 
2Thumbs said:
Don't think this has been posted yet, was only uploaded yesterday. Not the most technical or thorough of reviews, but footage of the display in action might quench the thirst of some of us still waiting for it to arrive. :)

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The problem is that no camera can capture this monitor accurately, every video of this monitor I've seen makes the screen look horrible even though the reviewers has positive things to say.

For example fast forward to when this guy is playing forza, the clouds in the background are completely blown out with almost all shadow detail lost in a white blur and because I've seen it I know that on other OLEDs the clouds retain their detail without getting getting blown out - my understanding is that this problem only exists in camera recordings of this screen and that in real life the clouds are not blown out? But anyway yeah the screen looks bad in videos no getting around it and it's a shame
 
Nexus18 said:
QD-OLED really is the future :cool:

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Latest Vincent video just dropped, this finally explains why comparison videos make the QD-OLED look blown out to me. I was told it's just the problem with the camera but Vincent here has a different story

Basically the QD-OLED is way off target for HDR brightness and color accuracy in real content, it's way too bright and has a high delta on color accuracy. The QD-OLED is also adding artificial brightness to some objects in HDR that fall outside the creators intent therefore creating an inaccurate image, it does this by manipulating the PQ curve.


Like Vincent says here, you guys (and all these wannabe YouTube reviewers) have been totally Bamboozled with Samsung's tricks once again :D


"Directors, cinematographers, colorists spend years working on a film, standards matter and accuracy matters and here we have Samsung absolutely butchering the image"

"We will see how much calibrating can fix this problem but my feeling is that no amount of calibration is going to make the QD-OLED as accurate as a LG,Sony,Panasonic WOLED"

 
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There is still hope Sony can fix the problems. And even if they can't this is only 1st generation Of QD-OLED and we all know 1st generation of everything has problems and buyers are just paid beta testers. Future models will improve if there is enough pushback against this cheating Samsung does.


The most eye opening for me is the dozens and dozens of videos of amateur YouTube reviewers claiming the S95B is the best thing since slice bread and using their videos to **** on other actually accurate and good TVs
 
cuke2u said:
Owners of the Samsung are reporting positive things about the tv. It's a non story as properly setup issues are eliminated.
LG OLED also automatically increase their brightness when presented with a test grid. All nothing new...
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issue can't be calibrated out bad luck. As for the LG comment, the LG OLED much more closely matches the reference monitor

Of course owners will say positive thing, they spent so much money on it so you think they will now say they were wrong nope. And they bought it because they obviously enjoy fake over saturated screens and like Vincent said that's fine people can use what they want and most average joes do prefer fake over saturated screens that's just the reality
 
bobert50 said:
Absolutely loving this monitor so far.

Forget the amazing colours... just dat pixel response alone :O it's near CRT-like, but with all the sharpness of modern resolutions. Also, the general input lag seems consistent with the best 240hz/360hz monitors too for twitch shooters. I'm finding it very difficult to fault!

Better still is that I'm coming from a 240hz 1080p monitor... and on my aging i7 + 1080ti that I'm using, the resolution of this is not really denting my fps on the games I mostly play (Fortnite and Rocket League). So, i don't even need to bother with a pc upgrade! :D getting 240fps solid on Rocket League and 120-160fps on Fortnite.

I was worried about the fan thing too, because I'm hyper sensitive to noise generally, but at least on my monitor I can't even hear it at all unless my ear is right above the centre of the monitor. The text issue that was talked about also seems completely fine for me too.
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Good stuff :) I've been saying (not just me) for years that OLEDs are beating the best LCD gaming monitors for that speed of response on the screen, going to see OLED become the next "upgrade" to get an advantage in your competitive gaming
 
Sc00p007 said:
Yes, Would've been nice to have bfi on the AW with the higher brightness and hz (i game in the dark at low brightness).
Was looking at the 42c2 until I saw they dropped the bfi @ 120. Went for this screen, but still a while to wait.
I'm still hurting from the transition between crt and LCD :D Still chasing res scaling, motion clarity and although oled tech has hit and passed the crt black level (crt had a faint glow), it still doesn't look as natural as high end crt. Obviously everything else is better on the new tech :)
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What's the point of wanting BFI anyway and then saying you want a screen that's even brighter than the AW, BFI just makes any screen look dim it's not compatible with wanting a bright image
 
Rtings review

"Sadly, it uses an extremely uncommon pixel layout that results in noticeable color fringing and blurry text, so it's not well-suited for productivity use as a PC monitor. It's also best suited for completely dark rooms, as it has raised blacks in a room with any ambient lighting, and the screen has a pink tint to it"
 
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