Question Is the uniformity on my BENQ PD3205U monitor acceptable?

[niko_shopovmedia]

Hello, I recently bought a BENQ PD3205U monitor. I use it for video editing.
Overall I am very happy with colour accuracy.
The brightness is kinda low but i expected it so no complaints there.
The issue I wasn't expecting is a yellowish tint colour change towards the most right part of the monitor. Tried to take photos doesn't show up that well there but attaching anyway.
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The monitor has a uniformity setting which fixes the issue but reduces the brightnes even more...
The pictures (with/without uniformity setting enabled) don't really show the issue accurately but i would say in reallity it is 30% worse than shown.
My question is: Is this an acceptavle level of uniformity for a screen priced at arround 700$? Should I play the panel lottery and ask for a replacement to see if its better? Or do I have normal performing IPS monitor and it's better to just keep it and work around it?

 

[Aeacus]

My question is: Is this an acceptavle level of uniformity for a screen priced at arround 700$?

700 bucks for 32", 4K, 60 Hz, IPS panel monitor? Really?

I'd return it, get my money back and buy LG 32UN650-W instead (also 32", 4K, 60 Hz and IPS panel),
amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FQ42MN1
review: https://www.xda-developers.com/lg-ultrafine-32un650w-review/
While pocketing the 300 bucks (price diff between the LG and BenQ).

700 bucks can get you far bigger monitor, e.g 43" LG 43UN700-B (4K, 60 Hz, IPS panel),
amazon: https://www.amazon.com/LG-43UN700-B-Display-Type-C-inputs/dp/B0821WWXV6

 

[niko_shopovmedia]

700 bucks for 32", 4K, 60 Hz, IPS panel monitor? Really?

I'd return it, get my money back and buy LG 32UN650-W instead (also 32", 4K, 60 Hz and IPS panel),
amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FQ42MN1
review: https://www.xda-developers.com/lg-ultrafine-32un650w-review/
While pocketing the 300 bucks (price diff between the LG and BenQ).

700 bucks can get you far bigger monitor, e.g 43" LG 43UN700-B (4K, 60 Hz, IPS panel),
amazon: https://www.amazon.com/LG-43UN700-B-Display-Type-C-inputs/dp/B0821WWXV6

Thank you for your suggestion! The main special thing for the BENQ is the 100% coverage of the sRGB color space which is very important for me for video editing. Not to say that the 98% will not be okay with the LG, but I wouldn't be at ease knowing it's not 100%.

 

[ALEX123456]

Thank you for your suggestion! The main special thing for the BENQ is the 100% coverage of the sRGB color space which is very important for me for video editing. Not to say that the 98% will not be okay with the LG, but I wouldn't be at ease knowing it's not 100%.

This is were it goes sideways when focusing on the specs. 98% or 100% is irrelevant. Its how the colors/the hues inside the sRGB triangle/color space are mixed that is the secret sauce. Otherwise its like judging the car in only by how fast it travels from 0-60mph.

For the secret sauce you need the LUT. Some have 10bit lut (1024), some have 16 bit (>65k) and some even have 24 bit.
Moreover there is also the 1D Lut or the 3D Lut.

Secondly, the two monitors mentioned in this thread cant be hardware calibrated, which means that you cant trust if the colors, the color space, and the mixture of the hues are right according to the standards of either sRGB or other color spaces the monitor claims that they have.

Moreover to video you shouldnt use the sRGB, its the REC.709 that is the color space you should use. Its also the color space that Youtube has as standard.

 

[niko_shopovmedia]

This is were it goes sideways when focusing on the specs. 98% or 100% is irrelevant. Its how the colors/the hues inside the sRGB triangle/color space are mixed that is the secret sauce. Otherwise its like judging the car in only by how fast it travels from 0-60mph.

For the secret sauce you need the LUT. Some have 10bit lut (1024), some have 16 bit (>65k) and some even have 24 bit.
Moreover there is also the 1D Lut or the 3D Lut.

Secondly, the two monitors mentioned in this thread cant be hardware calibrated, which means that you cant trust if the colors, the color space, and the mixture of the hues are right according to the standards of either sRGB or other color spaces the monitor claims that they have.

Moreover to video you shouldnt use the sRGB, its the REC.709 that is the color space you should use. Its also the color space that Youtube has as standard.

Thank you for your reply! I am definitely not an expert when it comes to monitor specs. I do use the REC.709 mode on the monitor for video editing tho since I tend to work in that colour space the most when colour grading. To my knowledge monitors that can be hardware calibrated are like a different level of expensive and they maybe fall into the "printing" category for me not so much for content to be consumed online.
I kinda went with BENQ just because I had one other lower end model. Tbh the colours look quite similiar between the two which I like and the older one has a terrible yellow tint compared to the new one I got
(especially when I turn on the uniformity option)
Point is yeah I am happy with the performace. I just wasn't sure about the uniformity issue and why I have to lose like 10-20% brightness just to fix it. I saw somewhere that for online content you ideally should be editing on 80 to 120 nits output of the display and that gave me some reassurance about the dropped brightness when it comes the uniformity mode on the PD3205U.
I must admit I haven't looked too deep into that yet although I

 

[ALEX123456]

The problem with Benq and their uniformity option is that you loose a lot of contrast to, hence the absolut black level gets really poor. And bad black level comboa with color grading is far from good.

For colorgrading I'd say, stay away from the Benq's, since they all has a pretty bad lowest black level due to their choice of low end panels. Asus is better, but they have the problem that you mostly cant increase or decrease the brightness in their fixed profiles, like sRGB, REC.709 and so forth.

Regarding the hardware calibration. Since Rec.709 is a standard that is important to follow (or sRGB if you e.g. take product photos for clothing sold on the web), why choose a monitor that cant mix the colors right? And morevover only get worse and worse in the colormix the older it gets?
With that in mind, is an higher quality hardware calibration monitor really pricey?

Imagine you beeing in an orchestra.
Would you buy an half expensive violin that cant be tuned or an more expensive violin that have tuning pegs?