MistaSparkul
2[H]4U
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Of course it's going to be a glaring difference side by side (if you only had the wide gamut and used it exclusively for weeks your brain would likely adjust to the new "normal"). But you're right in that the Asus leaves you guys up a creek in that regard. I'm not arguing for this monitor or that anyone should or shouldn't buy it. I just chimed in to agree with AngryLobster's preference of a more saturated look, and to say that I've owned several normal and wide gamut monitors and never felt the need to run the wide gamut ones in sRGB mode when they had one because to me it made the colors look dull and I wasn't concerned with absolute accuracy. I've always liked the more vivid look, especially for games where there is no "proper" color. If you guys want sRGB that's fine and obviously it's another reason to give this Asus a pass.
You do not need to have the monitors side by side to notice that the colors are off. People are going to have tomato skins on a wide color gamut monitor and I can notice that without a side by side comparison. Admittedly yes I do like to turn on wide color gamut mode for some games and seeing as this monitor is marketed as a gaming display I can see why some people are saying that lack of sRGB and even BGR layout isn't a problem. If people ignore these things and just buy it anyways then that let's Asus know that this is totally acceptable and they don't need to make any improvements when charging over a grand for a monitor. We need to stop with this whole idea that it's just a gaming monitor so it's fine to be missing features.
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