QuantumBraced
Gawd
- Joined
- Nov 21, 2015
- Messages
- 594
After a month with this monitor, I want to re-emphasize my earlier point that its main weakness is the contrast. At least to me, it excels in every other category for what its specs are , but the contrast is pretty bad. It's like it has anti-HDR. There is no such thing as a deep black or anything resembling a true black color. At 50% brightness, a totally black screen is bright enough to light up my room enough so I can see where everything is.
Movies look somewhat washed out because of that. Especially if you're watching HDR movies thru MadVR (which remaps HDR so it works on non-HDR monitors), they look really good, but the poor contrast sticks out and detracts from the experience. If you increase the brightness to emphasize the colors and the bright areas, you get very washed out blacks. If you decrease the brightness to get darker blacks, then everything looks very dim. That's an issue with any non-HDR screen, but this one is worse than average. My old $180 24" 8-bit IPS had better blacks. Or maybe it was just smaller, so it wasn't as noticeable... don't know, but the IPS glow on this monitor is serious. There's no backlight bleed, just uniform glow. I can't wait until there's an HDR option at this size, I would definitely pay for it.
Movies look somewhat washed out because of that. Especially if you're watching HDR movies thru MadVR (which remaps HDR so it works on non-HDR monitors), they look really good, but the poor contrast sticks out and detracts from the experience. If you increase the brightness to emphasize the colors and the bright areas, you get very washed out blacks. If you decrease the brightness to get darker blacks, then everything looks very dim. That's an issue with any non-HDR screen, but this one is worse than average. My old $180 24" 8-bit IPS had better blacks. Or maybe it was just smaller, so it wasn't as noticeable... don't know, but the IPS glow on this monitor is serious. There's no backlight bleed, just uniform glow. I can't wait until there's an HDR option at this size, I would definitely pay for it.