AOC Is Launching Gaming Monitors with 0.5ms Response Time Next Year

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AOC is halving the response time of today’s fastest gaming monitors with an AMD FreeSync 2 HDR panel capable of delivering 0.5ms timing: expected to go on sale in April next year, the display will feature a 1440p curved screen, 144Hz refresh rate, and wide color gamut. Unfortunately, it’s a TN panel, but those who have seen it say the picture quality is superior to IPS and the most colorful display of that type ever.

“We were talking with AUO and they have a new panel,” AOC’s Alfonso Clemente explains. “Up until now curved monitors were either IPS or VA, which is ok, but the response time was not so great. There’s always some ghosting, some blurring. But now there are curved panels from AU Optronics that allow 0.5ms response time.” There’s one glaring omission from the screen details above, and that’s the screen type they are using. The astute among you will have already realised that there’s not a popsicle's chance in hell this is going to be a VA or IPS panel with response times that low - it has to be a TN. Urgh.
 
Forgive me if I'll wait for the oscilloscope tests to confirm that. What you get in a lab is far from what you get in the real world.
 
This needs to be on 2160 or better format. Dropping from 1600 to 1440 causes me to lose too much vertical real estate.
 
Whew, a whole half a millisecond. Cool, seriously. TN is....not the best, but IMO not the worst, either.

Am actually researching FreeSync monitors now trying to determine a decent 144hz/1440p solution.
Many options, hard to narrow the choices down.
Gotta love competition!
 
Monitors with zero eyestrain are the best for me usually it has been a combination of Windows Creators update not meshing with Nvidia drivers while the 1080ti came out basically the same time. Both Nvidia and Microsoft got their act together within 2 months after Windows CU.
 
Get a 144hz IPS screen, thats the best you can get of both worlds imo.
 
Inacurate said:
Whew, a whole half a millisecond. Cool, seriously. TN is....not the best, but IMO not the worst, either.

Am actually researching FreeSync monitors now trying to determine a decent 144hz/1440p solution.
Many options, hard to narrow the choices down.
Gotta love competition!
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That half a millisecond theoretically means double the maximum refresh rate before experiencing smearing and/or ghosting issues (1000 Hz to 2000 Hz).
 
Aireoth said:
Really do not understand this complaint regarding monitors.
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Until the image is curved in software you are literally paying money to distort the picture. Unlike a theater projector that produces a curved source image monitors take a flat 2D signal... It's just basic science.
 
i want better color gamut, not viewing angle, since I'm not looking at shit from the top and bottom anyway.

Most monitors tend to have shitty color gamut
 
Wow, who new AOC was still doing its thing? My first PC came with a 19" AOC CRT, Windows ME, and a PIII 800.

Wake me when OLED hits.
 
Why should AMD do anything about this? It's like telling the band to control the prices of the scalpers out front.
 
JosiahBradley said:
Until the image is curved in software you are literally paying money to distort the picture. Unlike a theater projector that produces a curved source image monitors take a flat 2D signal... It's just basic science.
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I've never noticed any image distortion in a monitor, I use an ultra-wide X34 predator, the only image distortion is some in game movies being stretched to fit.

I think its a tempest in a teapot with monitors, especially UW, given how close we sit and that they are intended for one person, but to each their own.
 
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