The First OLED Monitor! - #Helpful Post

I thought one of the most fair

comparisons to help us assess just how

next-gen the Asus PQ 22 you OLED monitor

is would be to take it and put it right

beside another conventional high-end a

sous display the PQ 27 UQ and the first

thing you guys will notice especially if

you're one of those dark mode all the

things types is how much deeper and

richer the blacks are this shouldn't

really come as a surprise though since

it's the main claim to fame of OLED you

get much higher contrast because when

the pixels are ordered to display black

they really give you black rather than

that glowy dark gray that you're used to

on an LCD but surely then there's got to

be a downside right yeah there is so

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in a nutshell the reason that LCDs can't

display true black is that they work by

shining a backlight through a membrane

of liquid crystals that twist or untwist

to let the appropriate amount of light

through but displaying black doesn't

make the backlight turn off it just

makes the liquid crystals reorganize to

try and block the light as you can see

sunlight always makes it through either

the crystal membrane or through the

cracks between the pixels OLED

technology by contrast uses no backlight

instead applying electricity causes

special organic phosphorous to glow so

if you want black or the absence of

light you just turn off the electricity

and the results are I mean they're just

incredible I'm a huge fan of OLED

technology and the 3840 by 2160

resolution and inky blacks on this

display make it just look so visceral

much like the OLED screens that high-end

phone buyers have been appreciating for

the last few years also of note and this

is actually one of the things that I've

been personally most excited about with

this technology is this displays

incredible 0.1 millisecond pixel

response time now this demo here will be

a familiar one for display nerds and

this is cool

even through the camera if you get close

you can really see the way that an OLED

display can cut down on motion blur by

the extra detail that you can make out

on the aliens ship and face freaking

awesome and speaking of getting close

you shall at just 21 and a half inches

this is about as small as modern

monitors get so I guess it was a smart

move for Asus to market this thing as a

portable display for creators on the go

you see the stand here is actually only

held on by magnets and the monitor can

be easily folded and slipped into a bag

leaving you with a display that feels

like when you're holding it kind of like

an oversized tablet it's only one and a

half kilograms an eight and a half

millimeters thick it also comes with

this

Natick screen protector / stand that

enables multiple configurations

including a vertical mount but honestly

it was a little hard to set up and too

unstable to really inspire confidence so

if I were you I'd probably stick with

the metal stand which does still offer

about twenty degrees of tilt adjustment

oh and one more thing I'm sure many of

you will appreciate the included stylish

leather carry bag although for me mainly

served as a reminder that 21 and a half

inches is too small for my main

workstation but too big for me to just

slip it into my backpack and actually

the portable design also effects it in

other ways like the ports all we get is

a single micro HDMI and two USB C ports

which carry both DisplayPort and power

I'll get back to those in a bit though

because right now I have some burning

questions to answer about the elephant

in the room image retention commonly

called burnin image retention is one of

the two main reasons why o LED monitors

haven't already become mainstream with

the other one being their overall

shorter lifespan basically burnin is

caused by pixels displaying the same

thing for long periods of time so news

station logos sports scoreboards video

game HUDs I mean really anything that

stays on the screen without changing or

moving it was the bane of plasma TVs and

it's the worst nightmare of any Ola

donor I mean I personally go to great

lengths to ensure that my OLED TV never

gets used for long gaming sessions or

streaming music for example the issue is

that on a PC there are a lot of things

that always stay in the same spot like

TAS bars buttons and toolbars and

there's no real way to avoid them

altogether so how then does the PQ 22

you overcome these challenges has there

been a technological advancement that's

allowed us to finally have OLED monitors

without worrying about burnin No

no the PQ 22 you actually uses

fundamentally the same countermeasures

that OLED TVs have been using for years

like shifting the whole image over by a

few pixels when it detects static

content or simply dimming the screen

which this one does with the help of a

human sensor right over there

now that is supposed to detect whether

the monitor is actively being used by

looking for someone sitting in front of

it but honestly I ended up turning it

off completely because I guess it was

registering me as a lizard person or

something and turning the screen off

when I was in the middle of doing

something extremely annoying with all of

that said even if they didn't help with

burnin technological advancements did

still play a role in bringing this

monitor to market so the PQ 20 to you

uses an OLED panel made by a relatively

new company Joe led a joint venture

between Sony Panasonic and Japan Display

established in 2014 and while their OLED

panels use full RGB sub pixels like the

AMOLED screens made by Samsung Joe LED

is using an inkjet printing

manufacturing process to make their

panels thirty to fifty percent cheaper

than those produced with the

conventional evaporation method so then

that's pretty great affordability at

last and I mean big-screen OLED TVs are

popular handheld devices with OLED

screens are popular why not then go

after the market in the middle well this

is where we get into the problems for

one thing 21 and a half inches is what I

refer to as a tweener size it's too big

for tablets and laptops but smaller than

the 23 to 24 inch size that has become

really entry-level for the desktop and

then for two if they're inkjet process

has contributed to making this thing a

lot cheaper I don't even want to know

how much it was gonna cost if they made

it the conventional way because a seuss

is charging 4000 for this thing and and

no not ring it or yen in rupees I'm

talking four thousand freedom dollars so

to put that in perspective at that price

I

could buy a 55 inch LGB 8 4k OLED TV

burn it into oblivion and then buy a new

one who so okay but like hold on a

second men I mean lots of products are

expensive that doesn't necessarily mean

that they're a terrible value so let's

imagine for a moment let's play a little

game money's no object and then while

we're at it you you love the the total

21 and a half inch size if those things

are true are you getting the premium

performance that the price tag implies

okay so this is marketing this display

towards creators and they include a

factory calibration report boasting of

it's fantastic color accuracy thanks and

indeed it has great coverage of the srgb

Adobe RGB and DCI p3 color spaces which

is great the problem is that when it

comes to actually reproducing these

billions of colors it fails and I mean

like really fails like harder than the

cheapest Walmart monitor that we checked

out recently but how can that be

possible so here's what we discovered we

could get much improved color accuracy

and act like really accurate if we

measured just a small part of the screen

rather than the entire thing we're

talking Delta ease under 1 that's

basically perfect the problem is that we

can't get this kind of performance

across the entire screen and it's

because the screen just isn't bright

enough suggesting that there's a power

issue when it just isn't getting enough

juice through its USB type-c port so in

srgb mode the brightest white is under

18 it's and they lock the brightness so

you can't even turn it up like you can

in their best buy showroom standard mode

which makes me wonder then about the HDR

experience now this monitor supports HDR

10h LG

and dolby vision it's actually one of

the world's first displays to do so it's

just that it only has a peak brightness

of 335 nits and a sustained brightness

of a hundred and fourteen it's now that

is a far cry from the brightness levels

that are required for good

HD our thing is it's an inherent

characteristic of OLED technology that

increased brightness means increased

risk of burnin so bottom line then

should you buy this monitor remember

we're playing a little game you like the

portability and money is no object

honestly the answer is still no the

price would be absurd even if the

product wasn't as rough around the edges

as this one is and the portability even

though we're playing this game where you

like it just feels like kind of a

tacked-on gimmick to make up for the

fact that the screen is too small

making matters worse it doesn't even

have its own internal battery like other

cheaper portable monitors with all of

that said though as a tech demo for the

concept of OLED monitors in general I'm

still excited but also kind of getting

worried about whether this is ever going

to take off I mean the price is gonna

have to drop by a factor of four or five

which is possible over time but it's

really clear to me that manufacturing

volume has to ramp up significantly to

make that happen and the risk then is

that by the time that happens OLED could

be replaced by emerging technologies

like micro LED which if all goes

according to plan is going to have all

the benefits of OLED so those fast

response times and perfect blacks but

with none of the drawbacks and that is

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