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hinch on 07 November 2021
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Captain_Yuri said:
hinch said:

Yeah its a little disappointing and will no doubt show some level of blooming that we won't see (as much) as with some of the high end monitors have with a lot more dimming zones. Especially considering its a 34" ultrawide. At the same time, if the price is right hopefully we can get more reasonably priced FALD monitors. And this will no doubt be a huge step up from regular LCD monitors. Next year I'm guessing we're going to have a lot more mini-LEDs coming though with more premium manufacturers like ASUS/Samsung offering the very best. I'd love to see what LG could do as well should they jump on the bandwagon.

But yeah it does seem like new tech is breaking out in the PC space with new technologies and even TV's with OLEDs getting smaller too it might be worth considering that too xP I'd say if you are happy with what you have now there's no harm in waiting. May be worth going into Best Buy and checking out something like Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 and see if its worth the wait or investment.

Yea it's not that I am happy per say but rather I don't have a monitor that really speaks to me just yet. My alienware monitor is good for my PC but it's terrible for consoles and I don't really want to get OLED anymore since Samsung proved that Mini-LED can get pretty close to OLED without having those burn in issues. Grr yea I think I'll just have to wait until next year. Once a Mini-LED PC monitor that comes out that has similar quality to Samsung, it would probably be the monitor that will last a long time.

Ah yeah I get you. I was a similar situation with console and monitor combo with my old monitor that had no upscaling and its wasn't ideal for the PS5. Though tbf the panel was dying (was seeing streaks/lines on pixels on the edges). I only recommend waiting because the jump from regular/edge lit LCD and mini-LED jump will be massive in terms of picture quality. Like with local dimming, even on my 8 zone edge lit Odyssey G7 is quite impressive I can imagine a FALD monitor being mind blowing as we're finally seeing TV quality contrast in monitors and proper HDR.

Idd while OLED's while they are great for consuming content like on TV's and phones/tablets they aren't really set for long usage like on PC's. If I got an OLED for use as a monitor I'd always feel conscious of issues like burn in and that tbh its not (for me) worth the hassle. And true, with a good monitor you could use it for several builds. Like some people are still rocking Sony FW900's!

Last edited by hinch - on 07 November 2021