I swapped my mini-LED display for a $1,300 OLED monitor. Here’s what happened

[Ice2burn]

Let's see if it'll get burn-ins in a year or so.

They should not LED this happen

 

[tonyoramos]

It is exposed! That's a great shout, I couldn't believe it, hadn't had it out of the box 10 minutes...

Stephen, could you talk a little about the peak HDR brightness of the panel in nits and in future articles? Thanks

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Good for you, but I wouldn't touch it for a computer display if you paid me. I'll hook up to my 65" LG C4 OLED I got at Wal-Marts Prime Day for $450 to play a game every now and then, mostly for the larger screen, but my Corsair Xenion, this one actually,

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/corsair-xeneon-32uhd144-gaming-monitor

Looks absolutely fabulous and leaves me with no fear of image retention or burn in. Also, I paid less than $1200 total for both my monitor and my C4 OLED (think $900), so the value is also off the charts.

 

[Elrabin]

I agree. With how good LEDs are nowadays, absolute brightness matters more for most users than true blacks or the last 10% of color accuracy.

The latest crop of professional & gaming laptops with OLED screens all top out at 300 nits instead of last-gens 500 nits. This is completely unacceptable. The only reason why I can imagine they would do this is to control burn in better. If the manufacturers are concerned about burn in, then consumers should be as well.

I have the AW3423DWF and it has a TrueBlack 400 mode and a Peak 1000 mode and holy shit the Peak 1000 mode is too bright.

I have a dim room for my office and the TrueBlack 400 mode(500 average nits, 275 nits full screen) is PLENTY.

Maybe it's my eyes, but having seen 1000 nits displays, it's way too much for me

 

[JTWrenn]

Hope you enjoy it and that it looks lovely but I just can't do it. Burn in is just not something I can work around. I get it though, those things are pretty.

On that note they do make a lot of very good screw extraction kits out there. Has saved my butt many times in the past. Just a tiny drill bit to poke a hole in the middle of the screw then a reversed threaded bit to lock in there and you can back it out. Very worth it.

 

[A Stoner]

Looks like there is a 5K2K 330 hz 21:9 45 inch OLED out there for $2000 now.

I am already invested in my 40 inch. But that looks like a winner choice if you can find any 16:9 side monitors to go with that size. They would have to be larger than 32 inches. Yeah, based on my calculations, a matching 16:9 monitor would be ~35.25 inches and none exist which would make this a unicorn monitor.

 

[kealii123]

I have the AW3423DWF and it has a TrueBlack 400 mode and a Peak 1000 mode and holy shit the Peak 1000 mode is too bright.

I have a dim room for my office and the TrueBlack 400 mode(500 average nits, 275 nits full screen) is PLENTY.

Maybe it's my eyes, but having seen 1000 nits displays, it's way too much for me

300 nits vs 500 nits is a very, very big jump.

Its good that you can use yours in a dimly lit room, this is how critical image quality work should be done, but most of us end up in brightly lit rooms. Plus, watching true HDR content, holy crap its like a "free" (from a GPU perspective) graphics upgrade.

 

[Eximo]

People looking for 500+ has always made me wonder. People with glasses or really good iris or something. Even terrible office monitors I run at 15-25%. OLED was a perfect fit for me. Still get good contrast at low brightness. I wonder if a really truly bright monitor would actually get my eyes to behave like when I am outdoors, and then maybe it makes sense?

 

[pug_s]

Another thing not mentioned here is refresh rates. While most gamers could tell the difference between 60 and 120hz, I don't think most people can tell the difference anything beyond that. So the 240hz monitor is just oversold hype.

 

[kealii123]

People looking for 500+ has always made me wonder. People with glasses or really good iris or something. Even terrible office monitors I run at 15-25%. OLED was a perfect fit for me. Still get good contrast at low brightness. I wonder if a really truly bright monitor would actually get my eyes to behave like when I am outdoors, and then maybe it makes sense?

Most modern TVs are true HDR10+, meaning 1000 nits peak brightness. Go watch a movie in real HDR. Its a much, much better experience. Way more valuable to me than the jump from 1080p to 4k

 

[Eximo]

Most modern TVs are true HDR10+, meaning 1000 nits peak brightness. Go watch a movie in real HDR. Its a much, much better experience. Way more valuable to me than the jump from 1080p to 4k

TV is one thing, I am not sitting 3 feet from it. Though when I do let my TV do what it wants, it is overly bright to me at times. I think I would have to invest in a unit with much better lighting zones for that to be impressive, or just go straight for OLED.