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Do we have any thread/info discussion settings for optimal text clarity?
No it was clearly handling the color space wrong and that caused washed out colors. It was fixed in a firmware update and now just works. If I remember correctly it did not even do this all the time, just occasionally.
Honestly at this point it gets hard for me to say what is optimal. On MacOS it's easy, just turn off font smoothing and everything looks great. On Windows it's trickier.
What do you mean by ghosting? What kind of settings are you running on the TV? Are you using DPI scaling in Windows? What apps are you using to compare text quality? Are you comparing with another monitor?
I'll also add.. don't sit too close to it. I had a 32" 1440p and the text and anything else would show edges if I tried to sit 1' to 1.5' away. When I sat at a more appropriate distance for it's ppi .. it's PPD and default font sizes looked great. Also in the same vein, don't try to make the fonts smaller than the ppi's limitations just because you are sitting too close as that will be worse too.
THX 's standard has optimal viewing angle for movies as 45 to 50 degree width. On a 48" 16:9, 50deg starts at ~ 44.4" screen to eyeballs. This results in ~ 76 PPD.
That's for movies though, to see the whole scene. It's a good baseline but I sit closer for some games at 38" to 41" away. I wouldn't bother sitting closer than that (and then complain about the ppi and font edges).
The PPD at that THX 50 degree is the same as what the ppi would look like at all of these monitor sizes at these distances below. For general usage and gaming I would sit closer (putting a little more of the scren's extents into the periphery) but this gives some idea of the distance ratio between all of these screen sizes PPD wise at ~ 76 PPD.
You can adjust that tool to compare nearer.
e.g. 54 degree viewing angle and the same ~71 to 72 PPD at 4k on all of them at those distances would be:
48" 16:9 display = 41" view distance ( ~ 3.5 ' )
42" 16:9 display = 35.9" view distance ( ~ 3' )
31.5" 16:9 display = 27" view distance ( ~ 2.4')
27" 16:9 display = 23" view distance ( ~ 2')
I'll give some examples using tools we all have access to: Nvidia control panel, task manager and and windows explorer:
OLED does have an extra clear subpixel that shows white through it... WRGB = WhiteRGB. This boosts effective brightness (to conserve OLED lifespan and vs burn-in) but sacrifices accuracy as you get father away from SDR range.
The font choice has no effect in anything but the preview though. It's best to look at real apps how they look. Some will work just toggling the Better Cleartype Tuner options, others need to be restarted for them to take effect. Some might require logging out and back in.
For 150% I would want quite a bit more viewing distance. I feel 120-125% is about ideal for 1m viewing distance. I feel that is enough to improve the font rendering too.
Try increasing viewing distance. I tried looking at the same apps and really had to stick my face in the screen to see a slight red tint on the text. For me it does not look anywhere near as bad so try resetting cleartype settings from the Windows built in Cleartype tuner.
Sharpness set to 0 on this TV is soft. 20 is the neutral setting, if I remember correctly. This is also showing the issue with the fourth white subpixel we have been talking about. You can address the text issue by using ClearType.
Is there a source for this? I haven't seen it anywhere else.
At native resolution (3840x2160), Sharpness 10 seems to do nothing while higher values do sharpen the image. At 1080p, it pretty clear Sharpness 10 performs anti-aliasing and Sharpness 0 is neutral. This video demonstrates it conclusively.
It always amazes me that we always see the flaws or should I say look for them rather than just enjoying this monitor for what it is, an absolute beast of a display. For anyone on the fence just buy it you will not be disappointed. If this monitor does not work for you or you are not completely blown away then maybe your negativety is something you should look at. Enjoy it for what it is, not for what it is not. You can always return it.
It's workable but a bit close. A bit more distance would be my recommendation. Also notice that the stock display stand pokes out a lot from the back so you can't put it very close to a wall.
Nope, not at all.
Yeah, I think i'd be going with a wall mount, the 36' is to the front my current display which is about 4' off the wall. Thanks!
I'll chime in and say that 36" is probably the perfect sitting distance for gaming on a 48" TV.
The bottleneck could be the builtin browser's javascript engine only being able to run the bandwidth test so fast too. USB2.0 is theoretically 480Mbps.
Great that you were able to solve your issues. BCTT settings look better for sure.
