News Asus' 8K Mini LED ProArt display is the king of new ultra high-end professional monitors — 1200 nits and 4096 lighting zones

[Admin]

Asus has unveiled a brand new flagship monitor boasting the most potent combination of specs we've seen on a professional monitor. It comes with an 8K resolution, 1200 nit peak brightness, and a Mini LED backlight.

Asus' 8K Mini LED ProArt display is the king of new ultra high-end professional monitors — 1200 nits and 4096 lighting zones : Read more

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

Pricing was not announced, but expect this new display to be priced well into the thousands of dollars.

Most likely around $8K USD !? 😲

https://twitter.com/x/status/1779907492715073833

View: https://twitter.com/Vincent_Teoh/status/1779907492715073833

 

[DougMcC]

Lighting zones are 90 pixels on a side. That's pretty terrible. I'd probably be happy enough with 5x5 or maybe even 9x9 but 90x90? No thanks.

 

[peachpuff]

Lighting zones are 90 pixels on a side. That's pretty terrible. I'd probably be happy enough with 5x5 or maybe even 9x9 but 90x90? No thanks.

Show me a screen with 9x9 lighting zone.

 

[UnforcedERROR]

Lighting zones are 90 pixels on a side. That's pretty terrible. I'd probably be happy enough with 5x5 or maybe even 9x9 but 90x90? No thanks.

Dimming zone density is far less important than the processor control. The Sony X95L, probably the best mini-LED TV, only has 480 at an 85" screen size. The TCL QM8 has 2300 at 85", by comparison, and practically 0 blooming.

No one's putting 4K+ zones into a 32" form factor. If the processing is good you'll never see those zones (though HDR on PC is questionable).

 

[DougMcC]

Dimming zone density is far less important than the processor control. The Sony X95L, probably the best mini-LED TV, only has 480 at an 85" screen size. The TCL QM8 has 2300 at 85", by comparison, and practically 0 blooming.

No one's putting 4K+ zones into a 32" form factor. If the processing is good you'll never see those zones (though HDR on PC is questionable).

That's fine for tv viewing. But this is a supposedly 'pro' monitor.

 

[DougMcC]

Show me a screen with 9x9 lighting zone.

All the OLED monitors that bypass this problem completely.

 

[peachpuff]

All the OLED monitors that bypass this problem completely.

You're so smrt... you didn't mention oled in the original post, now please answer the question.

 

[UnforcedERROR]

That's fine for tv viewing. But this is a supposedly 'pro' monitor.

It's perfectly fine for content creation. It's better than "pro" monitors that are edge-lit, and it won't have an issue with burn-in, unlike OLED (and the peak brightness is way above most OLED). OLED is better because of per-pixel activation, but that's it.

As someone who uses pro monitors for color critical work, I'd gladly take this over an OLED.

 

[vanadiel007]

I don't know about this. You can buy an OLED monitor and replace it under warranty every year, and still be cheaper off 10 years down the road compared to this monitor.
Most come with 3 year warranty against burn-in these days.

Unless you absolutely need an 8K 32 inch display, I see very little market share for this considering the price point it will have.

 

[dk382]

All the OLED monitors that bypass this problem completely.

There are no 32" 8K OLED monitors, so this point is moot. If you want that level of pixel density, then you need to use LCD for now. And if you want some level of HDR capability with LCD, then you need a mini-LED backlight. And there aren't any backlights denser than 4000 zones at 32" to my knowledge. Would it be better if the backlight were even denser, or if this used some kind of panel with self-emissive pixels? Of course, but that technology doesn't currently exist, so here we are.

Unless you absolutely need an 8K 32 inch display, I see very little market share for this considering the price point it will have.

This much is obvious, isn't it? This is not a product aimed at general consumers. It's a professional monitor that will be sold to companies and studios with very specific use cases in mind (e.g. the mastering of 8K or XR content). It's not aiming for market share.

P.S. I'm pretty sure Vincent (from the tweet linked above) was joking about the price being $8K. Though we can expect a price in the thousands of dollars.

 

[Order 66]

Too bad there aren't really any high end mini led gaming monitors with over 1,000 dimming zones. I have a mini led monitor with 1000 nits of peak brightness 27 inches, and 336 dimming zones. There is a bit of noticeable blooming, though.

 

[DougMcC]

There are no 32" 8K OLED monitors, so this point is moot. If you want that level of pixel density, then you need to use LCD for now. And if you want some level of HDR capability with LCD, then you need a mini-LED backlight. And there aren't any backlights denser than 4000 zones at 32" to my knowledge. Would it be better if the backlight were even denser, or if this used some kind of panel with self-emissive pixels? Of course, but that technology doesn't currently exist, so here we are.

I do actually agree on this point. Since there are very few 8k monitors in general, they are competing in a pretty small pool, IF that is actually a 'must have' vs a nice to have. So if you are working in 8k video production and you need to see what it really looks like, maybe this makes sense. Everyone else will choose something else.