OLED Monitors Ruined Me

OLED has ruined every other monitor technology for me that has not been good for my bank account uh but I'm going to be replacing this one ever since I got the lgc1 OLED TV this is a 48 in 4k 120 HZ display supports variable refresh rate uh with amd's free sync and g-sync Technologies so it's a TV but you can use it like a monitor and OLED has uh super fast pixel response times and uh really extremely low latency so it really makes an excellent display if you can deal with its massive size now uh that that can be difficult to deal with if you don't have a you know a desk that can go pretty far back you can sit pretty far back from the display uh but back when OLED first was coming out as a display technology it wasn't really making its way into the monitor space and that is finally changing but that's why I had to go with an OLED TV uh to be kind of an early adopter uh for OLED as a monitor technology now it's also a 4K screen and I want to be replacing it with 4K screen so in today's video we're going to talk a lot about OLED in general my experience with it but also what I am going to be replacing this with because I did finally just place an order on a new 4k OLED screen now another thing I'll mention about if if you're getting a 4K display you really need to think about your graphics card you're probably going to need to upgrade cuz not everybody should buy a 4K screen and if you're going to upgrade your graphics card you should absolutely take a look at today's sponsor ja. so this is the place where Gamers buy build and sell uh and you can sell your old graphics card to fund your upgrade they offer you a super simple hassle-free way of do it where you just tell you the GPU uh you tell them the GPU model and condition they give you an offer uh that includes the shipping label and everything so you just ship it in there they inspect it make sure everything checks out and most buyers get paid within one business day and also if you uh want to look to to upgrade 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it's an absolute disaster trying to research all of these monitors I basically just have to be at my computer with all of the model names where I can just copy and paste them when I need them cuz I cannot for the life of me remember which one's which but anyway uh so let's talk a little bit about OLED and is it right for you because so first of all what are the huge advantages of OLED the main thing is that each pixel emits its own light which means that if you have a black screen it is truly black it is off at least truly black well so this is where we get into some of the different uh OLED Technologies there's woled panels like I have here with my LG and there's QD OLED panels like I have over here with my Alienware and these Technologies work a little bit uh different in how the display panel is actually created and one difference we've seen with the Cutie OLED panels is the way they reflect light so if you're in a brighter room the the black screen actually can look a little bit more gray whereas I've noticed on my LG panel the blacks still look truly black and uh you you can see this reviewed on a whole bunch of channels you know side by side and everything like that I'm not set up super well for that type of filming uh but the point is one of the main draws to an OLED screen is those perfect blacks so it is a bit frustrating that the QD oleds can compromise that a little bit that being said it still still looks absolutely phenomenal and you don't get that kind of ips backlight glow or anything like that that you would see on the other one so that's one of the big draws and again one of the big differences in some of the OLED technology which we'll come back to later when I talk about uh which display I'm actually choosing for my upgrade um uh another uh really cool thing about OLED is how fast its response times are there there there's very little you know motion blurring due to how quickly the the pixels can change uh so those are really cool things about about it however uh you know the big down signs people bring up are potential for Burnin I haven't had any Burnin issues so what is burn in on an OLED on an OLED if you've been displaying the same image in the same spot for a long time we could think of it as like the pixels kind of get tired so they there so the ones that were displaying that particular thing are now going to not quite display things the way the other pixels do which means that when you take that image away uh and and to try to display something else you might see a little bit of a ghosted retained image uh Left Behind now the thing is that most OLED monitors have a pixel refresher that you can run and that has always solved the issues for me when I've done it so I have had some temporary image retention uh on both my uh lgc1 OLED TV and my uh Alienware uh dell ultrawide over here both of them have had temporary image retention but it has always been solved by running the built-in pixel refresher I haven't had any permanent issues again not saying that that you wouldn't uh but that is one reason why uh people um you know are are a little hesitant to go with OLED Technologies and so I would say that if your primary use case would be office work and things like that they're not ideal but if your use case is gaming movies things like that you get a lot of things moving on the screen all all the time it's not that big of a deal unless maybe you play the same game all the time with the same HUD elements all the time uh maybe that could be a bit more of an issue but again it hasn't been an issue for me I also have a third OLED display that I've had no issues with right over there uh is my uh TV I'm kind of down here in like a a basement kind of kind of living room setup sort of thing like we watch movies down here I've got a surround sound setup over there and couch and uh that's I've got a sonyy OLED TV which also uses a woled panel uh and the main reason I didn't just get another LG cuz I really like their TVs is that um the remote being in the same room with two LGS was a bit bit of a disaster the TVs would uh control each other uh so I had to go in the different brand so just to solve that problem easily of the remotes um wanting to control both TVs at the same time which was definitely a little bit awkward when I'm trying to edit videos here and uh you know kids are trying to watch uh watch some cartoons over there or something like that anyway but on all of my OLED displays um the pixel retention has always just been easily wiped out uh with a pixel refresh but again can't speak to everybody's experience the other issue some people have with oleds is they don't get quite as bright as the uh high-end uh you know a backlight uh so so basically if you don't have an OLED to give you the individual pixels emitting their own light so you can turn uh you know the blacks are black they can turn off uh the other ones light up if you don't have uh that then um to try to do good HDR screens will have LCD screens will have a backlight uh and they'll have a different amount of dimming zones some of them are just a few big big dimming zones and some of them are very small now these can get brighter than OLED can if you get one of the high-end displays but the problem is they're not the size of a pixel which means that if you're trying to light up like one little bright flash but the backlight dimming zone is bigger than the little bright flash then you can get some glow around the other imagees you know other parts of the image in that screen so again that's one of the good things about OLED but those back those those backlights on those uh full array local dimming Zone TVs can tend to get brighter now I'm down here in a basement so this is a dark basement we can control the lighting really well here so the brightness on the oleds has again never been an issue for me but those are all things to think about when you're deciding if if OLED is right for you anyway uh it's definitely right for me and like I said once I've had the OLED screen like like when I first got this one I had a different Ultra wide here that wasn't OLED and it was just me running a screen saver background like this where I have kind of little colors go by on the dark screen by the way people usually ask me when they see this in videos this is just built into Windows this is the mystify screen saver built into Windows anyway um but like this one would look beautiful with the black background and it would go and then this one would be sitting there when it was an IPS and you would just see glowing around the corners and and the black was gray when you see them side by side it's especially apparent uh I don't know how to describe this unless um I mean a lot of people have an OLED phone so maybe you could use that and kind of hold hold that up against a different display that you have to kind of get an idea for it if you haven't seen lot of OLED once you have experienced the um uh the change and then you put it side by side up against uh you know not having that it really is rather jarring which is again one of the reasons why I upgraded to the ultrawide OLED here as well although that was also due to I accidentally broke my other Ultra wide oh it was painful anyway but uh anyway so I am upgrading this now I've done a ton of research to try to figure out the right one for me to buy because right now let's kind of end with uh okay so my quest for the new 4k OLED display one thing that's nice is a lot of people don't need a 4K screen uh and OLED monitors have expanded out to 1440p displays as well ultrawide 1440p so for a lot of people you should be looking there I specifically want a 4K screen for two purposes one is video editing I like having the 4K screen when I'm editing 4K video and also for benchmarking when I'm running 4K benchmarks on graphics cards I do need to have a 4K display to hook that to right so I do want 4K so i' I've been waiting and waiting for actual 4K monitors so I don't have to stick with the 4K OLED TV anymore and because again I I really like this it was great uh when it was the best thing that was available but it was always a compromise 48 in is a bit big for a desk and also it's 120 HZ which is nice but uh believe it or not even at 4 K if you're willing to use uh Technologies like frame generation a lot of times uh you can actually push over 120 HZ and when you do that you can actually get screen tearing unless you go into like your control panel and try to like force vsync on and anyway the point is that would be nice to have a higher refresh rate uh on the screen as well so the cool thing is that the this year has been the breakout for 4K OLED monitors we're now seeing them in 32in sizes which is now much more reasonable for a desk 4k 32-in monitor is much more reasonable for a desk setup and also we're seeing uh the refresh rates uh kicked all the way up to 240 HZ so so this year there is a bunch of 4K 240 HZ OLED monitors and many of them are extremely similar to each other so it can be a bit hard to differentiate uh out of the highest end versions of them some of them have a little bit of a step down version available as well there is um on the QD OLED side of things so remember there's that little difference in the woled versus qti OLED and how the sub pixels work and all of that with their pros and cons cutie OLED can usually get you a bit of a whiter color gamut so some more colors but like I said the panel technology still kind of can be a little bit gray when you when when it's uh lit up in the room around it versus the really true blacks on the um on the woleds and that's still the case well LG is offering a woled 4K 240 hzz display whereas all of the other ones I've seen I I've seen one from Dell MSI Asus and gigabyte and all of those are using the qdo Le panel and uh so that's the first differentiator is do you want the woled or do you want the qdo Leed and then once we've broken it down from there there's a couple other differentiators honestly the QD oleds are all very similar but there's a couple things that stand out one is uh pricing so if you're looking at pricing MSI at least in the United States has set the lowest price uh another thing is uh you know are there any special features well if you want a curved display Dell is offering the curved display and if you want the I think the other standout feature is display port 2.1 and only gigabyte is offering the display port 2.1 so those are kind of the differentia ating factors between those QD oleds so you've got display port 2.1 on the gigabyte curved screen on the dell and you've got the lowest price on the MSI model now Asus just kind of stands out in that reviews seem to point to it just generally being a really good monitor it does everything pretty well and a lot of people are are kind of picking it as the best overall so that's kind of the split between the ceds and then what about that woled from LG LG has a uh kind of a standout feature uh compared to all the other ones which is it has a 480 htz mode now it can only go into the 480 HZ mode when it's running at 1080p resolution and you might be like I I that that's garbage I don't ever want to play at 1080p resolution so what is that mode for that's like Esports mode so a lot of people like myself play single player games and I'm good with you know 100 FPS at 4K is pretty awesome I don't even necessarily need 100 FPS at 4K in a single player game I'm playing on a controller and and it'll it'll absolutely do that but then if you want to play something more competitive there are competitive games that you can be running at you know 4 or 500 FPS and the that especially if you're going down to 1080p resolution to get that Competitive Edge you get better response times you know you can see the enemy movement slightly sooner you can respond to it slightly sooner there's a Competitive Edge there and only the LG is going to be able B to do that uh out of this current crop of monitors so that's kind of a cool standout feature for people who care about uh that super high refresh rate option and dropping down to 1080p just for the sake of playing a competitive game might be acceptable for some people in order to do that also makes it easier to hit the 500 HZ uh you know kind of refresh rate that you're targeting there so uh so which of these features kind of stood out the most for me well at first I thought it was going to be display port 2.1 um now why would anybody care about that well for a a a monitor to display 4K 240 htz that actually takes an incredible amount of data bandwidth however um most U uh screens can actually do it using something called display stream compression and display stream compression is a type of compression that will reduce the bandwidth required to do that and display stream compression is generally called visually lossless meaning it's not mathematically lossless you are losing some element of the image information uh as that's done however in practice uh people cannot usually actually see a difference now I was curious what would be the case on these 4K 240 HZ displays and finally uh I found an awesome review at monitors unboxed where they looked at the gigabyte monitors display port to 2.1 and they actually found a graphics card that even supports display port 2.1 because even amd's 7,000 series graphics cards which do support display port 2.1 I don't want this go into off the deep end on this but there's different speeds uh available in that and AMD 7000 series cards actually don't support the full mode needed for the full 4K 240 without display stream compression but they uh AMD does offer a pro series graphics card where you actually can test this technology out um and at monitor unboxed I I trust uh Tim's reviews over there he says he really could not see a difference between the display stream compression and not having it now there's still reason why you might want to have uh to not have display stream compression that's because on Nvidia gpus if you're using things like dld DSR to run run things at higher than 4K resolution and then scale them back down it doesn't play nicely with dis with DSC with display stream compression so that's something to think about but another thing Tim pointed out in the monitor's unbox video is that the uh cable length on display port 2.1 monit uh cables right now are extremely short uh we're talking like barely over a meter and my uh my uh PC is like way far across the room like that's not going to work for me so the point is uh we're really thinking about future generations of graphics cards the cables need to get longer and even if you get it set up um possibly unnoticeable actual Advantage other than if uh maybe you were trying to use something like dld DSR or something like that so so I'm not saying it's it's totally useless but it didn't really seem like a standout feature for me so I thought that was going to be the standout feature so then the next thing that that was kind of a standout feature for me was lower price MSI offered the lowest price well here's the thing about all these 4K 240 HZ monitors at least right now as I'm filming this video it's very difficult to find any of them in stock so um the only two I can actually find in stock right now are the uh the Alienware uh and the LG those the only two I can find in stock the other ones seem to just be completely sold out or when they come available they're sold out before I can get to them so that kind of Narrows down the options so having a lower price on something is kind of meaningless if I can't actually buy it for that price and then um uh when it comes to the Dell monitor it's curved I don't actually particularly want a curved screen when I'm editing videos so that's one thing it also has a white stand and obviously I could get a monitor arm and replace that or something like that but white just doesn't really fit my my color scheme here I don't care that much about that but honestly I wish I had a black stand and I wish it wasn't curved I don't think either of those things are that big of a deal but those were definitely small negatives on my uh weighing the scales so really it came down to the only QD OLED monitor in stock you know was curved and and had the white stand and then we have the the LG Monitor and that one has that cool standout feature it has that 480 htz mode and I'm be honest guys I'm just really curious I have never experienced 480 HZ Monitor and I've also uh really curious what that looks like on OLED which already has incredibly fast pixel response times and things like that so that sounds like a really cool feature to me also I've got to say again having a QD OLED here and an LG OLED here which I I'm already in that situation I absolutely love this ultrawide cuti OLED do not get me wrong but when these are next to each other like this I do see the difference in the Black Level it is visible and like my even when my room's not super bright if the lights are on at all and I've got both those screens next to each other you can definitely see the difference in the black level and so that is a bit of a uh you know again another thing where I'm kind of interested in that LG now the Q oleds do seem to have the kind of The Wider color um gamut and things like that but it's not a massive difference the point is that all of these displays are going to look amazing but to me me it's looking like the LG offers that really cool 480 HZ feature that I'm curious in uh maybe I could do some videos on it it sounds interesting to test out it has the actual true deep blacks and then the last thing that that comes down between the QD oleds and this LG OLED is there's a a big fuss online about the LG having the matte finish right now uh but it's uh when I've actually seen reviews testing it out I think Optimum Channel had had a really good uh view on this it's not super super matte uh like it's it's almost like a I don't know how to put it other than it doesn't seem like it's as big of a deal when you just hear the word a lot of people feel like the matte finish is going to kind of Ruin uh how the screen looks and that just uh doesn't seem to be the case from the uh you know monitor reviewers who have actually tested it out side by side now I don't have it yet I did just place the order so I ordered it and then I was like you know what I I've been spending so much time researching this maybe I'll do a video on the topic for everybody so here we are anyway so I have ordered the LG uh dual mode that switches to the 480 HZ woled 4K 240 HZ display and uh should get here in a few days and I'm sure after a while I'll give you guys some sort of video updating you on my thoughts did I make the wrong decision uh any of that but again what it really came down to is between the two that were actually in stock and I'm honestly kind of just sick of waiting um didn't really want the curved screen or the white stand and I do like the woled having that deeper black when the lights are on U because i' I've already kind of experienced that right here side by side with these two uh so that that made my decision um might not be the right decision for you uh and also the LG does cost like $200 more than the Del so if if the extra $200 matters a lot for you uh if I do a review on this do I get to call it a tax write off or something for a business expense I don't know I'm going I'm going to pretend that justifies the extra $200 um anyway hope you guys found this video useful and or interesting and I'll report back in in in a bit once we uh actually get the screen and all that have an excellent day

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Published: Mon May 27 2024