Really missing OLED in the post. After getting an OLED tv a few years back I can't imagine myself spending money on anything with less quality. Instant pixel refresh, amazing colors and no blooming and most importantly, a glossy display.
Tried the Odyssey G7 for a while, so blurry with VA and matte panel. Ended up returning it. Temporary solution is my old 2x 1440 IPS 27". They look awful next to my 15 inch 4k laptop but gets the job done for now on the cheap.
Nearly got the C1 48" but it is a bit too big for easy usage. When rumors for the C2 42" started coming I decided to buy it ASAP when it launches this spring.
So annoyed by the monitor market. Phones have awesome screens, TVs have awesome screens, even laptops have awesome screens. Monitors are whatever is the cheapest per unit for large corporations or an ever increasing HZ number for gamers, without even considering pixel transition time or color.... At least there's some blingy LEDs on the back.
> After getting an OLED tv a few years back I can't imagine myself spending money on anything with lesser quality.
What about OLED's burn-in problem? Computers usually have a lot of GUI elements in the same place for long period of times.
> and most importantly, a glossy display
Glossy displays can be good for prettier colors but can have glare problems from other light sources. This post is about picking a monitor for software development, why would glossy be better than matte for that use?
I have been using my 2016 55" B6 hooked up to my computer for years now, I write this on that screen. I babied it in the beginning. Nowadays I tend to forget it on. I have a tiny amount of burn in on the white subpixels from the top bar in windows due to previously having the default white layout. Turned on dark mode now to mitigate that. All other colors are fine. Completely invisible in regular usage.
Got scared by that and moved the taskbar to the side, no burn-in at the bottom though. I guess because that was a darker tone. Also used it at maximum OLED light until I noticed the first burn-in, so it's not like I was nice to it even though I babied it regarding static elements.
Sadly I can't find the "total hours on" setting on this one, seems to be removed from the settings.
> Glossy displays can be good for prettier colors but can have glare problems from other light sources. This post is about picking a monitor for software development, why would glossy be better than matte for that use?
Because I want clarity. Why put the perfectly crisp text and other elements through a blur filter??
Glare monitors are superior for clarity, but I prefer non-reflectiveness for reading texts since it's enough clear. Watching movie is a bit different story.
Don’t use it as a monitor. It is insanely easy to get a burn in. There are many YT videos where people daily drived OLEDs as monitors and it was pretty much a burn in disaster. Sadly
I have a thinkpad with Oled and external screens with oled too. No burn in so far. If it ever becomes a problem, I will just get new ones. The confort of oled when working at night is worth it.
The ABL isn’t that much of an issue as the WRGB sub pixels that it uses which make text fuzzy.
Also even at 42” the PPI is not good enough for text rendering.
And lastly the biggest issue is actual comfort there is almost no way to balance the right distance and scaling to prevent strain on your neck when working with such large monitors.
That would be annoying, my use case is both but many times the hours of work to compared to gaming. I guess that is why my B6 is amazing, not the brightest out there compared to what is available today but no automatic limiting.
I wonder how the crazy gamer ones are going to be, like the ASUS PG42UQ [0]. Also how much a premium above the regular LG one. Also would get annoyed by having that UFO on my desk.
They are 60hz for $3K though. I was seriously considering trying one, but 120 HZ minimum does a lot for motion clarity. Same issue with the 32" version.
I guess I should also have specified in the "not selling my kidney" range considering that the C1 48" go around $1K.
There is a reason. OLED panels are still quite bad for "staying" images (burn-in). And not only that, there has been many other issues, which makes them hard to make outside of standard 55" TV sizes. Not many manufacturing lines for them.
Lenovo Yoga Gen 2 used to have OLED screen, and it was causing huge repairs. On Gen 3 it was removed and they took a long break before introducing it on other products.
Tried the Odyssey G7 for a while, so blurry with VA and matte panel. Ended up returning it. Temporary solution is my old 2x 1440 IPS 27". They look awful next to my 15 inch 4k laptop but gets the job done for now on the cheap.
Nearly got the C1 48" but it is a bit too big for easy usage. When rumors for the C2 42" started coming I decided to buy it ASAP when it launches this spring.
So annoyed by the monitor market. Phones have awesome screens, TVs have awesome screens, even laptops have awesome screens. Monitors are whatever is the cheapest per unit for large corporations or an ever increasing HZ number for gamers, without even considering pixel transition time or color.... At least there's some blingy LEDs on the back.