Glossy Oled Worth It

[Comixbooks]

I own the 1st Model LG oled but its Matte I'm looking at the 27" Glossy Asus since it has a versa mount kit included which is must for my ergonomics setup.

Just watched a comparison video doesn't look like much of a upgrade. But that Badseedtech guy showed how details show up better but colors are the same 3rd gen woled

 

[Comixbooks]

View: https://youtu.be/ulJyZapm3q8?si=Ss6vkNTrQHCpOScd

 

[tongshadow]

Coming from a glossy AW2725DF I must say Im enjoying the matte finish of my G6 500hz, not having reflections in daylight conditions makes the experience less distracting.
I heard 1st gen WOLED models have a pretty aggressive matte coating, with noticeable grain, while the latest models have improved alot on that. If you're on 1st gen, it's worth waiting for next year's 540hz 4th offerings.

 

[pendragon1]

its up to you, its a personal preference. try one.

 

[jbltecnicspro]

its up to you, its a personal preference. try one.

Some people like their cucumbers pickled.

 

[Darunion]

watching video reviews or comparisons online is almost no value. Essentially taking a picture of a picture. Need to see in person to really get any idea. Microcenter might have one on display if you have one close to you, call first of course.

 

[KazeoHin]

OLED's Big advantage is PERFECT contrast
--- So you don't want any part of it to cause haze or take away from that.

OLED's big disadvantage is lack of brightness.
--- So you need to use it in a dark(ish) environment to take full advantage.

Matte coating's big advantage is softening bright reflections
--- So it's good for bright environments with lots of bright lights

Matt Coating's big disadvantage is it blurs the sub-pixel image and reduces contrast
--- So you wouldn't want to use it in situations where sharpness and contrast is the goal.


So literally there is not a single fucking situation where an OLED should have a matte coating. It is literally a lose-lose situation with NO positive.

 

[Sycraft]

So literally there is not a single fucking situation where an OLED should have a matte coating. It is literally a lose-lose situation with NO positive.

Some of us live with other people and can't always be in a blacked-out room. While the inky black of OLED isn't quite as inky when the lights are on, it is still good. There's a reason why both exist: Different people have different needs and preferences.

 

[tongshadow]

OLED's Big advantage is PERFECT contrast
--- So you don't want any part of it to cause haze or take away from that.

OLED's big disadvantage is lack of brightness.
--- So you need to use it in a dark(ish) environment to take full advantage.

Matte coating's big advantage is softening bright reflections
--- So it's good for bright environments with lots of bright lights

Matt Coating's big disadvantage is it blurs the sub-pixel image and reduces contrast
--- So you wouldn't want to use it in situations where sharpness and contrast is the goal.


So literally there is not a single fucking situation where an OLED should have a matte coating. It is literally a lose-lose situation with NO positive.

View: https://youtu.be/-QeEi2Ws9vA?t=217

 

[elvn]

This is my take:

Direct lighting pollutes any screen surface. The backs of screens should face a window, optimally. It's like speaker placement with nice stereo "monitors" speakers or a full surround system. You design the room layout around the visual and audio systems if you really prioritize quality display, and quality audio if using good speaker systems.

Some people are very insistent about having quality calibration of parameters on their screens, too, whether out of the box, hardware calibration they do, or a lot of settings tweaking or copying. The thing is, any time you allow the ambient lighting level to swing, due to how our eyes see everything relatively, all of your parameters will swing to your eyes and brain. Perceived brightness, contrast, saturation. So you are throwing those settings out the window unless you set up multiple color profiles or picture modes to swap between as the ambient lighting level changes, which while better than not swapping, still wouldn't be perfectly matched. That or use light sensing hardware and software that attempts to automatically adjust screen settings. (Or just control your "pc studio" 's lighting conditions to normalize them to a standard separate light and dark level).

. . . . . .

A big con to me is screens with an abraded screen surface rather than glossy. The abraded screen surface crystalizes/granulizes the surface, compromising the images, especially large bright color planes of such screens. This has a negative effect on small text, and it can make large fields of bright color look granular. Any high rez photographs with film grain will look extra grainy, and and videos with film grain will look like some kind of snow noise. The abraded outer layer can also make blacks look flat, and it can rob you of that clear "wet ice", Polaroid photo look which makes colors look more saturated and contrasted.

Direct Light hitting the layer/abrasions can "activate" it's sheen (sort if like a beam of sunlight hitting a smooth frost fogged windshield) and potentially make that worse, while making a splash of diffused direct lighting that pollutes the screen parameters in that soft spot (washing them out).. This can also lift blacks on screens.




Abraded Screen Surfaces vs. Glossy Screen Surfaces (imgur gallery) .

A picture is worth a thousand words. These become simulated, in effect though, since people would be viewing the images on whatever type screen they are using at the time.

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View: https://imgur.com/a/SMT0bdU%5D(https://imgur.com/a/SMT0bdU)



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This is a pretty wild read from a new post. He had a hard time with doing it. I've seen others have had success without as much work and risk as the thread below, when soaking and peeling. Vega had a good photo filled thread showing how he did it to one of his screens years ago, for example . I'm not recommending it, and neither is he (the OP of the post below), but wow.

"Decided to remove the anti-glare film on my 55" S95F (my experience)"

https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED_Gaming/s/ClgcxXzKF0

 

[xDiVolatilX]

I own the 1st Model LG oled but its Matte I'm looking at the 27" Glossy Asus since it has a versa mount kit included which is must for my ergonomics setup.

Just watched a comparison video doesn't look like much of a upgrade. But that Badseedtech guy showed how details show up better but colors are the same 3rd gen woled

Use the 27 as your side monitor try a bigger monitor at least 32 maybe 43 you might love it and yea glossy is better in every way unless you have light reflections .

 

[Comixbooks]

Use the 27 as your side monitor try a bigger monitor at least 32 maybe 43 you might love it and yea glossy is better in every way unless you have light reflections .

I thought about this really hard I use a Lamp Nearby so I'm worried it might mirror the Lamp on top of my PC. So I'm sticking with my Matte screen.

 

[elvn]

I thought about this really hard I use a Lamp Nearby so I'm worried it might mirror the Lamp on top of my PC. So I'm sticking with my Matte screen.

I just keep my lamps behind the line of my screens. I keep a tall floor lamp left and right along the wall my 77" TV is on, too, for the same reason - so they aren't reflected in the screen surface. I'd do that even with an abraded screen though - like my previous reply said (and showed photo examples of), you would still be compromising your screen with direct light splashing on it, you just wouldn't be seeing a pristine reflection, rather a frost blob. There's no way around it other than controlling your lighting layout /exposure.

I have other lights but everything is on smart lights/outlets so when I'm using my screens I switch everything (which lights are on or off) to optimize my picture quality.

I do agree with xDiVolatilX that using two different screens in general is a good idea for various reasons, but I'm not a fan of abraded screen surfaces at all so for me it would be to get better usage options for each outside of that (e.g. not worrying about burn in avoidance, getting more desktop/app real-estate to keep static apps running while gaming on the other screen, etc).

 

[elvn]

Another thing thing I've done in the past, and I'm about to do in the near futurewhen I finish redoing my pc room, is putting my chair in the corner facing outward, taking over the corner like a pie-piece instead of having my screens up against the wall like a bookshelf or upright piano with sheet music. That way, all of my windows, artificial lights, etc. are behind the backs of my screen array. It's at least the same footprint on my floor that it would be the other way around, probably even less since my single chair fits in the coner area better, where three screens across facing the other way would leave a unusable gap there behind the screens. I realize that doesn't work with everyone's available space or their living space feng shui though.

 

[LigTasm]

Coming from a glossy AW2725DF I must say Im enjoying the matte finish of my G6 500hz, not having reflections in daylight conditions makes the experience less distracting.
I heard 1st gen WOLED models have a pretty aggressive matte coating, with noticeable grain, while the latest models have improved alot on that. If you're on 1st gen, it's worth waiting for next year's 540hz 4th offerings.

I never understood this, my PC is in a very bright room with almost all of the wall area being windows. I have zero issues with glossy displays, but matte displays are so bloomed out by the light that its unusable. This is what I see with my own eyes when there is light behind it:



Glossy is so much easier to ignore and doesn't make my eyes water.