ASUS ProArt PA27UCX-K 4K with 576 zone mini-LED slowly gets available
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ChisChas
LOL, many complain at length about NVidia's prices but ASUS's monitors match them. In order to upgrade my 10 year old Dell U2711 1440 monitor to one that will last 5+ years, I'm having to think Β£2,000 to Β£2,500 to buy the 'next gen spec' ie HDR1000 etc.
Appreciate this particular monitor is not for gaming and it's probably lovely for creators but prices for top spec kit have gone a bit mad.
geogan
Crazy price alright.
I think the best bet we have in the short term for a HDR type monitor which has actual real millions of dimming zones is LGs latest OLED TVs which are now available in a 48" size. Can be used as TV, gaming monitor (with 120Hz refresh and variable refresh), OLED colour quality and low latency, think it is about 600nits brightness, or even as a studio reference monitor as a separate monitor for video editing work. And it costs WAY less than that monitor at about β¬1,500
passenger
Typical ASUS they carpet bomb with specs and toys and then they slip you 1000:1 contrast.
Loobyluggs
https://www.asus.com/uk/Monitors/ProArt-Display-PA32UCG/
This is the only one I care about - all others are weak sauce
IchimA
DUDE ... the price on that thing is gone be hugeeeee ! ( you buy two of them and send me one π ) π)
Ya , it really has all the check boxes
32" - 4K - 120Hz ( wold be better 144 ) - and HDR 10 ---- but knowing ASUS - my estimation is 3500 - 3800 euros again
Loobyluggs
golbee112
If my 1st grader math is correct, that's 32 LEDs horizontally and 18 LEDs vertically... and they market the monitor as being able to "reproduce high-precision HDR content with the highest contrast" while reducing Halo effect to minimum, all for a humble price of 2800 euros π
Not even sorry for suckers who will fall for it, at the end of the day it's just ASUS doing usual ASUS things.
Loobyluggs
James Frazer
Slightly off topic but I am going to be looking at new monitor/s in the new year... it seems that in recent years many of the traditional PC hardware/gaming sites have moved away from monitor reviews... so can I ask for recommendations of monitor review sites please?
Thanks.
slyphnier
https://forums.guru3d.com/forums/computer-monitor-forum.20/)
i think you can ask around what u looking, based spec u looking
for monitor review sites, tftcentral.co.uk is good imo
for other else, well i guess, you can simply google up "display / monitor reviews"
there is display-sub-forums in here (fry178
@golbee112
tvs have about 400 zones, not sure if thats just for the bigger ones or for 49in as well (below they arent FALD units),
this is 27in and has almost 600.
completely ignoring that ALL (non oled/plasma etc) monies are either edge/backlight,
but will only have edge/frame dimming/handful of zones)
James Frazer
tunejunky
YAWN
i will hold off for next gen with a greater number of mini leds.
having 576 SOUNDS NICE, but with the halo effect requiring optical correction, they have to dramatically lower the output of said mini-leds.
THEN, when you factor in HDR the only way to achieve the dynamic range is by lowering the floor of the usable brightness.
if, on the other hand they had 1000 or more mini-leds you could have BOTH HDR (at a decent average brightness) and you reduce the halo effect.
in reality they need to do a 576 mini-led backlight for an LCD panel. THAT would rock and have spec to match price. that would sell like hotcakes until the price of mini leds comes down
fry178
@tunejunky
lol wat?
you need at least one led per zone, so this will have at least 576 leds, but "zones" usually describes a bunch of them grouped together (so the number of actual leds is higher),
so they did exactly what you said they "should do"
according to asus info:
27-inch Mini LED Backlight with 4K HDR, 576 zones local dimming
rikkiepc
We need microled or (affordable) OLED monitors. This (price) is just insane.
Actually thinking about the latest 48" LG OLED as a monitor. too bad it's 16:9 and there are no 21:9 options.
fry178
@rikkiepc
as long as +90% of tv content is 16:9, that wont change.
im happy with that.
not everyone uses a moni for gaming/watching movies only, or runs 5 spreadsheets next to each other, that they want UW.