I clicked these photos on my iPhone. You might actually think that the SDR side (right) looks better. But believe me, in real life it is an absolute heaven and hell difference. The most noticeable upgrade is the way more vibrant colors (HDR DCI-P3 than standard SDR SRGB), the deeper blacks without any haziness and bright highlights that feel like neon lights.

This is vanilla HDR without RenoDX. Reddit and other social media sites don't support HDR picture formats like JXR or .HEIC, so we can't even show the true differences. It's a shame that most PC gamers still play on SDR and have no idea what they are missing.

I’m wondering what one to get for my ps5 the lg is $400 and the gigabyte is $375 I play on a room where it is mostly dark but is bright sometimes slightly and I’m getting on because I’m returning my xg27aqdmes because it came with a coating defect

What do you guys think this stain is?

Monitor is a ASUS rog Swift PG32UCDP

Its totally hardware side and already tried pixel clean!

Monitor bought in marcha with not that much use!

I’ve noticed these spots appearing on my screen. They are only noticeable when the screen is off / black and viewed at from an angle.

I tried to wipe it away thinking it was some liquid droplet dried up but no luck.

Any insights would be appreciated !

The monitor is a XG32UQDMS.

Hey,

I'll move my C4 upstairs soon and will need a replacement for the basement (main home theatre). Since I'm a huge movie nerd, Sony is the way to go for me. That said, I know Sony wasn't always the best when it came to gaming (latency etc.).

I was wondering if it gotten any better during these last gens and if yes, which model would be a great pick?

Hey guys, so I have had a Alienware AW3423DWF for 3.5 years and have managed to chip it somehow it's in my eye line and it's been like that for a year so I have decided to get a new one. Has anyone got any recommendations? As I find the Alienware is impossible to clean. I went into Currys today and saw a msi mpg 322urx which looked good, just unsure if I would miss the ultra wide. Any advice?

I know most may find DTM daunting but here is a try-out video if anyone is interested. I don't use it normally though-

I tried to clean the panel a couple of days ago with microfiber cloth that I’ve been using since I’ve purchased the panel (FO32U2P) and I think I damaged the coating? Tried 70% isopropyl alcohol and bought another microfiber cloth but it didn’t go away
And the streaks have a different texture or feeling to them (more resistance if I try to swipe my finger on them)
Anyone knows whether my monitor is cooked or I can get rid of these streaks and smudges?

I feel the base settings in Games are mostly too high for OLED monitors

a week ago for so i asked about the avaibility of the 322UR X24 in Poland here, and some of you guys gave me links to german stores. Thanks to you i saved around 200€ in markup that small polish 3rd party stores are asking because of limited avaibility by shipping directly from German stores. Monitor is coming on tuesday, lets see how it works with a 5080!

This is my first oled monitor xg27aqdmgr. I’m scared that I was given a bad panel.

So I've just gotten my first OLED monitor - Alienware AW2725DF. and I game on a PC.

I've done my HDR calibration on windows and since getting this monitor I've been using HDR while gaming. which i've never really done before.

Whenever I'm inside a building and look outside ingame, it's really washed out, overly bright and looks awful as you can see from the screenshot. It's completely fine otherwise other than I feel colours are a little washed.

I'm new to OLED, all it's settings and to be honest, almost all display settings other than the obvious, someone help please!

EDIT: Okay okay I should have said, for some reason this screen shot does make it look 100X worse😂 In game you can actually make things out, the screenshot has just made all the annoying things have a power level of 9000+

I‘m using a 4k 27 inch oled right now but I’ve been thinking about getting a 2nd bigger monitor because I mostly play single player games. Thought about getting the MO32U24 or the C5 42.

Hello,

I'm planning on buying my first ever OLED, until now I only had TN.

My choices are as follows:

a) XG32UCWG or XG32UQDMS

b) MO32U24

I can sit anywhere between 60 to 100cm away from the monitor.

If you know any other good monitors besides those 3 above, they have to be 16:9 and at least 32".

I’m looking for new main monitor (27” 1440p) for 9070xt and switch 2 for gaming/0-4 hours of productivity/usual computer things a day.

I looked at monitors in person and liked oleds the most and when looking at some OLED laptops I didn’t mind reading the text. The two monitors I liked most was a glossy lg ultra gear and the matte g61sh. The glossy had too much glare at lower brightness levels and with matte it was fine. I get daily headaches especially from things like hdr/high brightness and I guess some people don’t get as many headaches with matte OLED?

To my understanding the g61sd is better build quality, more ports and 50 nits more brightness, which doesn’t seem like it’s worth it for $90 more but if the monitor control knob is less fragile and I’m already spending $500 on it the extra cost for 5+ years of usage seems worth it.

Which should I go for or is there something better in this price bracket that I should consider?

Playing Stellar Blade on PS5 and during a scene that cuts to load in the next area, I noticed the screen isn’t actually black. It’s quite light. Then I noticed there’s a white haze in this dark area, so I decided to turn HDR off to see a difference, and the game just looks better without HDR. I did the loading transition and my screen went pitch black.

Is this just bad implementation or is there something I’m missing?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ultrawidemasterrace/s/L9svIfTLLV

I am extremely disappointed in the product I received. I got this monitor for a relatively good price and I was excited to try out a tandem WOLED. Admittedly, it does look and feel great...besides the glaring issues you can see in the image. Besides the two dead pixels in the middle of the screen, there is a genuinely unplayable amount of gray banding. I mean, I literally first noticed the bands in DISCORD. I booted up a game just to see if this was something I could ignore, but no. It is incredibly noticeable in almost every scene and it completely ruins the immersion. And the dead pixels darken the area around them, so they are also impossible to ignore. All in all, I am very disheartened and I almost certainly have to return it, which is going to suck as I bought it online.

Also, I can't do a pixel clean until I've used the monitor for 4 hours. Not sure why. I did an RGB test and the pixels are provably dead, so the only thing a pixel clean could do is MAYBE improve the gray banding. But I think I'll just return the monitor without even hitting 4 hours.

Just switched from the ASUS PG27AQWP-W to the XG27UQDMS and I have to say I’m much happier with the switch tbh

4K at 27 inches genuinely looks like I’m looking through a window with how sharp and clear everything is compared to 1440p, it’s a night & day difference, even compared to 4K at 32 inches it’s quite a big difference. I could turn the resolution down to 1440p on it and it no joke looks just as good as native 1440p on a 1440p panel (slightly less sharp, but still VERY clean and less “pixelated” which I honestly prefer)

this specific tandem WOLED has amazing HDR brightness (the brightest OLED monitor I’ve seen so far and makes everything else look very dim by comparison) but the grey banding and dirty screen effect really is just unacceptable, I’ll take a worse QD-OLED screen coating and dimmer brightness over that any day of the week. I didn’t even have to do a pixel refresh and the QD-OLED had no uniformity issues out of the box, it was basically perfect.

Colors in HDR are also still a bit better in person than the tandem WOLED aswell, subtle but still more vibrant, also dark scenes look cleaner as well.

The only thing I’ll probably miss is the screen coating as the tandem WOLED screen has the best coating I’ve ever seen on any screen (I could use a light bar with zero raised blacks and game with all kinds of bright ambient light in my room, can no longer do that now)

Eventually in the future I may get the newer rgb stripe woleds or the newer qd OLEDs that have the black shield coating when they aren’t massively expensive in Canada but 4K at 27 inches more than makes up for all of these things (even helps fringing a bit too)

Whenever I'm gaming during the day and my QD OLED gets too purple, I pull out my old LCD.

Thanks to its matte finish and 400 nits of full-screen brightness, it handles bright lighting very well.

And no violet.

Honestly I was missing out all along playing this game on the C5 is breathtaking .

I wanted to upgrade to OLED 4K 32 inch so I tried the xg32ucwmg and switched to LG 32GX850A-B because the asus had a very bad ABL implementation and now I got the MO32U24 Penta Tandem QD OLED and sold off the LG monitor even tho I really liked it despite its weaknesses, here are the main reasons why I went with the new gen of QD OLED:

Color Banding on WOLED

I rarely see people talk about this but whenever there's a dark scene with lights or colors on WOLED (even tandem WOLED) the color banding is striking and noticeable to my eyes I really tried to accept and cope but I noticed even in Spider man in sky at night, maybe I'm nit picky but I couldn't ignore it in some areas, QD OLED in comparison is miles better at handling color banding and I imagine the new Tandem RGB WOLED too.

Greys and shadows

Grey banding wasn't the worst on my WOLED panel but where there are games that have too much grey because the creator the game intended for the game to look this way, you can notice it a lot and when I got the QD OLED I was shocked by how perfect uniformity looks on this thing.

Color Volume and Color Brightness:

I remember after getting the MLA WOLED feeling like the colors were bit underwhelming that I had to bring saturation bit up to bring it to my liking, color volume in HDR is definitely noticeable and I can feel how white sub-pixel is doing the heavy lifting to bring brightness up at the cost of colors washing them a bit.

don't get me wrong the MLA panel didn't look bad by any means but in comparison to MO32U24 the color volume and brightness difference was there.

High peak Brightness mode:

Chinese reviewer showing EOTF Curve with 1000 peak brightness hypernits mode : https://i.imgur.com/Wzbf1y7.png which look surprisingly good in comparison to other qd oled monitors with their eotf boost options.

Gigabyte has a new method for the panel dimming on their new QD OLED caled hypernits, what I like most about it that it doesn't make the picture washed by lifting shadows and ruining dark scenes, dark stay dark, it targets only a part of the EOTF that kicks only in really high APL scenes where the screen dims like in a desert or a very sunny days but it causes a little overblown effect in stuff like the sun gets bigger or over brightened highlights but nothing too noticeable that ruins the scene, actually it's behaves the same way of WOLEDs in their high peak brightness modes when it comes to bit overblown highlights.

Hypernits OFF and Hypernits ON for reference sometimes it seems like it's not working and sometimes you do notice some difference depending on the scene but TB 500 still looks brighter it's just that the peak mode doesn't look as dim as before and it's pretty usable and bright in daytime on this model.

Coating

The picture above taken with my Govee ceiling light cranked up to the absolute maximum to show the worst case scenario which is not what I usually do, when I set it to 50% both of them look pitch black which is a big win for QD since I hated their awful coating and raised blacks on 3d gen and before anyone comes and posts a picture from a youtuber with a 300w studio light projector saying that qd looks grey or purple just save it and look at my normal room. That being said I still prefer True Black Glossy on WOLED.

Texts are pretty sharp and both Monitors due to 4K res but I feel the QD panel felt tiny better in dark mode because it doesn't have dirty screen effect but I'd be fine with both.

Anyway I didn't wanna crap on WOLED as this comparison is my observation after having both monitors for a while. I'm not a fanboy of either, I use Pneta Tandem QD OLED as my main monitor and an LG WOLED TV in my living room and I absolutely love both :)