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Samsung S27B970

So how is the 970D compare to the Apple display?
Somewhere better, somewhere worse.
That's why I bought it:
1) multiple input interfaces;
2) hardware calibration;
3) the promise (unfulfilled) of the 10-bit LCD.
 
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I got mine yesterday. I was initially very surprised about the black level being so bad. I haven't seen any comments about this anywhere, so I am wondering if my display is actually faulty or perhaps my expectations was just too high!
 
I got mine yesterday. I was initially very surprised about the black level being so bad.
Do you have numbers? Mine has 0.12cd/m^2 at the black level when white is calibrated to 120cd/m^2. Tested with i1Display Pro colorimeter.
 
my Apple Display has the same bad black levels. This is the norm and I'm very surprised polarizers are not used.
 
Turn down the brightness, it comes cranked out of the box. All IPS/PLS have poor black level when set to high brightness levels.
 
Do you have numbers? Mine has 0.12cd/m^2 at the black level when white is calibrated to 120cd/m^2. Tested with i1Display Pro colorimeter.

No unfortunately I don't, since I don't have any test equipment, only my eyes. I will try to adjust the settings tonight.
 
Turn down the brightness, it comes cranked out of the box. All IPS/PLS have poor black level when set to high brightness levels.

I know black levels are not supposed to be the best with IPS/PLS, I have tried a few of these panel types in the past, the problem is that I have never seen it this bad before. Tonight I will try to adjust the brightness to see if that helps.
 
I took several pictures of the monitor when unboxing it, here is one of them which kind of shows how I experienced the black level. I know the picture is not sharp or anything and also might not be completely true to life, but it still kind of shows what I'm talking about.

 
I took several pictures of the monitor when unboxing it, here is one of them which kind of shows how I experienced the black level. I know the picture is not sharp or anything and also might not be completely true to life, but it still kind of shows what I'm talking about.


You missed to note the brightness setting
 
You missed to note the brightness setting

All settings are out of the box standard, but i will post them tonight, only reason i could post picture now is because I have them all online, the brightness settings requires physical contact :)
 
You missed to note the brightness setting

Thank you! Brightness was actually set to 100 (max). Lowering it did immediately improve the blacks alright. Unfortunately I did not have time to fine adjust this or other settings, but as soon as I have a spare moment I will, as the default value(s) seems to be non optimal.
 
To be honest, there are no real advantages over good IPS panels. It is not actually an advancement over IPS. If you read the technical papers it is very, very similar in structure to current IPS panels. It just happens to be Samsung's take on creating their own version of an IPS type of panel, somewhat like the differences between the panel structure layout of e-IPS, S-IPS, and H-IPS panels as an example. It also makes a difference what the individual companies objectives are with the screen models they release
 
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