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  • Makaveli - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    Looks nice but 27' is too small for 4k and that 2k price tag no thanks.
  • a5cent - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    Theoretically, a high DPI display should have no impact on the size of UI elements (icons, text etc), It should affect only clarity/sharpness. Software based on the universal windows platform (UWP) does this perfectly without requiring any specific developer effort. It's 2018 and it's a shame software developers still can't update their older Win32 UIs and make them high-DPI aware.

    Unfortunately this is a chicken/egg problem. Until more high-DPI displays make it into people's hands and complain, developers won't update their software, but until developers do, people won't buy high-DPI displays 😕 I wonder how long we'll be stuck in 1995 in terms of PPI.
  • rpg1966 - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    4K looks awesome on even a 15.6" laptop display, so even though you sit slightly further back from a 27" screen it still looks great.
  • eva02langley - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    The G-synch tax is strong with this one. 4k even at 120Hz, doesn't worth that much. There is more interesting TVs on the market that could be used instead.
  • jordanclock - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    I'm not aware of any other 4K 144Hz (regardless of adaptive refresh rate technology) monitor that is even available, so I'm not sure how you can claim this price is due to G-Sync, let alone whether it is a worthy price.
  • AsParallel - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    LG released one earlier this week. Same price. Maybe 1 centabo cheaper.

    Some of it is due to gsync. Adds roughly 200 to the price, hence the lack of adoption. Bright side is, it actually works as opposed to freesync.
  • jordanclock - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    What model is that? I can't seem to find any announcements or listings for that.
  • jordanclock - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    Oh wait, I think I found it, the 32UD99-W. 4K, 144Hz with FreeSync, HDR10. MSRP $1000.

    So the upgraded G-Sync module for 4K support seems to be considerably more than $200 OR they've increased the mark up considerably.

    The only numbers I can't find to compare at the moment is the chroma subsampling options for the LG at 144Hz.
  • a5cent - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    No, AsParalell is right, it's not the g-sync module, nor is it the markup. It's the FALD backlight and the engineering efforts that go with it. You can't get 1000 nits at the center of the screen and simultaneouly 0.1 nits at the corners without FALD. You can also expect to see very little backlight bleed (if any at all). At least that is the promise. If it holds up in tests, you will be getting a professional grade display (which are no less expensive) from a gaming monitor.
  • FullmetalTitan - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    This monitor (and the Acer one) have basically every professional feature out there PLUS 144Hz refresh. The comparable professional displays all cost about this much, but lack the high refresh, G-sync, additional connectivity in many cases, and the ones with FALD have 1/2 or 1/4 the discrete backlighting zones.
  • kot0005 - Sunday, May 27, 2018 - link

    wut ? Its not 144hz. Its 60hz.
  • kot0005 - Sunday, May 27, 2018 - link

    Its not even using Dp1.3..There is no way it can do 144hz 4k. Nice try tho.
  • Death666Angel - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    Also, how many 27" 4k TVs are there?
  • a5cent - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    Nvidia isn't charging that much more for their brand new DP1. 4 scaler and adaptive sync module than they did for any previous iteration of g-sync. While the g-sync tax still sucks, that's not what makes this price. What you're actually paying for is the FALD backlight assembly and more importantly, the engineering required to get FALD working well with HDR signals and variable refresh rates. Basically, you're paying engineer's wages. Over the next few years, as that development cost is amortisized, the cost of these monitors will come down, but somebody needs to pay for those development efforts now.
  • dragonstunna - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    for 2 grand you can buy 55" oled tv

    what the hell are they thinking charging this much for a 27" monitor

    it's beyond insane
  • DanNeely - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    60hz - FAIL
    no form of adaptive sync - FAIL
  • jordanclock - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    Higher pixel density. Adaptive refresh rates. Lower latency.

    But yeah, let's pretend that products should only exist to fit one criteria and if they try fulfilling other segments, they are insane.
  • Diji1 - Wednesday, May 30, 2018 - link

    Not just insane, beyond insane!
  • FullmetalTitan - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    4 times the PPI
    384 local dimming zones
    1000 nits in the center, virtually 0 at the edge at the same time
    144Hz (not multi field striping to fake high refresh)
    Adaptive sync
    97% DCI-P3 coverage

    Don't get me wrong, I plan to buy exactly the type of TV (65"*) you described, but for my movies and such, not my PC.
  • rsandru - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    Maybe it's about time they start designing proper OLED screens for computers... For $2K I'm not looking forward to dealing with LCD blurriness/pixel response times. I own both a 200Hz VA and a 120Hz IPS screen which are really nice but still blurry to a certain degree.

    I don't even want to think what kind of artifacts and other funny halos we'll get with fast moving images and the FALD backlight.

    Looking forward to proper testing by the guys at TFT central :-)
  • a5cent - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    I've lost hope we'll ever see OLED go mainstream for computer monitors. The color degradation issues, in particular now that HDR is becoming a thing, are unlikely to be overcome, not to mention burn-in problems that are still an issue with monitors which display static content over long periods of time.

    I suspect MicroLED is more likely to be what saves the computer monitor market from our currently craptastic LCD tech.
  • FreckledTrout - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    If MicroLED ever becomes a thing I suspect you are right. If it does im pretty sure ill be a proud owner of a MicroLED monitor. I really suspect monitors may be the first things to see MicroLED as its costs go up with a size considerably so I could see Samsung hitting hitting the smaller high end spectrum like this monitor.
  • a5cent - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link

    I hope you are correct, but unfortunately I've read otherwise. High-DPI displays apparently are the most difficult thing to produce, particularly if they are large. Most companies working on MicroLED products are looking at very large but low-DPI televisions or very small mid-DPI smart watch displays. However, I suspect that can eventually change as the problems currently exuding MicroLED from monitors (and even more so from smartphone panels) are entirely related to the manufacturing processes and not inherent to the technology itself (as they are with OLED).
  • FullmetalTitan - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    I tend to agree that micro LED will be what saves the day. It gets reasonably close in accurate color reproduction but avoids the worst issues with OLED. The fact that Samsung jumped ship on OLED production for TVs and monitors, instead focusing on extreme PPI phone displays, definitely doesn't help the situation either
  • Diji1 - Wednesday, May 30, 2018 - link

    I wonder if these models feature ULMB (which a lot of LCDs blur issues while halving brightness).
  • Diji1 - Wednesday, May 30, 2018 - link

    *fixes
  • ComputerGuy2006 - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    Shame it does not support freesync. Is there an actual real reason monitors can't support freesync that also support g-sync or is this just nvidia bullying us consumers again?
  • r3loaded - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link

    Yes. Absolutely no technical reason Nvidia GPUs can't support Freesync (and I doubt G-Sync monitors would need much work to support it either), they just choose not to because vendor lock-in.
  • Diji1 - Wednesday, May 30, 2018 - link

    >actual reason

    Nvidia develops G-sync displays with the manufacturer which is why you see a small number of G-sync displays that are all high performance.

    The monitors feature Nvidia branding and Nvidia does not want their brand associated with Freesync's more open and therefore possibly lower quality results.
  • FreckledTrout - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    I think i'll wait until micro led comes to market in a few years before I spend like this on a monitor. That I might pay a high premium for but no way im paying 2K for a FALD 27' monitor. This monitor sits in an awkward spot since 27" is pretty small for 4k. I would much rather this screen was larger or they went with 2K along with a higher refresh rate if sticking with 27".
  • TristanSDX - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    PG27UQ was dyelayed so much that it is outdated now. Soon there will be much better monitors with mini-LED, like this one:
    https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Display-We...
  • Monstieur - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link

    It also does 8-bit RGB at 144 Hz.
  • kot0005 - Sunday, May 27, 2018 - link

    Full chroma 4:4:4 HDR limits refresh to 98hz because of DP1.4

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