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The company trucks don't have the fancy new technology. Their trucks are a few years older. That's why lol.
You’re lucky. Being micromanaged by camera remotely is awful.
I'm not that lucky lol. While the owners are too cheap to install navigation in any of the trucks, they absolutely have installed front/back facing cameras in all the trucks as well as GPS tracking. So to be fair, we are prolly in similar boats lol but I'd rather be out driving as opposed to sitting in the office all day (what I used to do).
Exactly. Cheaper insurance.
I'm not aware of one on the LG 48GQ900 4k 48" "Ultragear" gaming monitor I picked up. As best I can tell it's a TV with a more aggressive AG coating (main reason I went with this model) and a DisplayPort input. I don't find the text on it terrible at all. I actually think it's better than the 43" 4k Samsung Neo G7 LCD I had briefly before taking it back because it had issues with both DisplayPort and HDMI. HDMI would randomly lose signal and DisplayPort wouldn't wake up from sleep. HDMI cable has tested good on the replacement LG... Both get crushed on text by my 4yo Dell 43" 4k 60Hz no HDR IPS pure business monitor.
This sort of concern, even for what some would consider not worth worrying about, is precisely why I won't use current self-emissive tech on the desktop.
Well, I have been following RTING's (I always pronounce it "Arr- Tings") long term burn-in tests.
What convinced me it was time to give it a try was that starting with the 2022 models (C2, G2. etc.) LG's offerings appear to be much more burn-in resistant.
And in their torture test from hell (endless 24/7 stream of CNN with the CNN logo on high brightness) this is what the screen looks like after 4500 hours:
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Now, my screen is probably only on 11-12 hours a day, 5 days a week probably closer to 8 on average if we factor in screen saver time and the days I actually go into the office in person, and maybe 5 hours on the weekends when I get some gaming time, so that totals maybe 50 hours a week.
At that usage rate, it would take me 90 weeks to accumulate 4500 hours on mine, which is what, a year and 9-10 months?
In their screen above there is some slight burn in visible on the grey uniformity test screen, but it would probably be mostly unnoticeable on the screen in regular use.
Then add to the fact that my use is nowhere near as worst case torture testy as their test. I do have some semi static elements, but I move them occasionally, and I work in my basement office where I have no sunlight and can thus run my screens pretty dark. For my desktop use I run it in SDR mode at much lower brightness than in the HDR torture test.
I usually upgrade my screen every 4-5 years, and I'm thinking with this level of burn-in performance I should be able to make it to 4 without significant problems.
And if I don't, I paid for the 5 year Geek Squad protection plan, so I'm covered.
So yeah, I was concerned about burn-in, but I think I've gotten to the point where I really no longer am. OLED's have improved. (I mean, my phone has an OLED screen, and I've been using it for 2.5 years without burn-in). I still take precautions (no background image, self hiding menu bars, no icons on the desktop) but I'm not even sure that is necessary.
I'm not saying I am 100% sure I won't get burn-in. I'm not. But I think the chances are on the low side, and if the worst case happens, I have the protection plan.
It really does look amazing in titles that do HDR right. Cyberpunk 2077 is a masterpiece with RT turned up, in 4k with HDR on this screen. The bright sunrays through the leaves of the palm trees, the neon signs at night, and the lightning bolts are spectacular, not to mention sunsets and sunrises. I wish I had played it this way the first time around, but at least I'll get a chance with the new Phantom Liberty expansion.
Other games have a ways to go in improving their HDR implementation. Starfield is pretty bad and Windows 11's AutoHDR feature can only help so much (but there are mods that help)
But yeah. Ask me how it went in 2028, and I'll be sure to give you my full review
)I think it has to do with the peak brightness these panels have. The bright whites give me a headache and tire my eyes a lot.
In just about every situation except films and games I prefer SDR with the brightness turned way down.
These OLED's are just too damn bright!
(No one tell kramnelis
My PG32UQX was literally 9x brighter (1200nits full field vs 140) and I never once experienced eye strain with it.I think it has to do with the peak brightness these panels have. The bright whites give me a headache and tire my eyes a lot.
In just about every situation except films and games I prefer SDR with the brightness turned way down.
These OLED's are just too damn bright!
(No one tell kramnelis
could be. bias lighting is supposed to help.
Have you tried MacType for Windows from www.mactype.net?
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I only use Windows 10 but Windows 10 gives an option to set the desktop brightness of the HDR. As I mentioned it's worth keeping in mind that LG OLED's have aggressive brightness limiting features that engage shortly when the image hasn't changed enough, so SDR is usually a better experience for desktop usage.
Both of them may be correct, it's easy to miss some nuances nowadays given how complex displays have become in HDR era:There still must be some unit to unit variation or firmware changes, because according to TFTcentral, my new LG C3 is about 120 nits at a brightness setting of 41 in SDR mode, but in brightness matching the monitors on a white screen, I lowered the C3's brightness until it approximately matched, and that took me as low as about 20-25 somewhere.
So one of them or the other is wrong
I purchased the Alienware QD-OLED AW3423DW last week from Best Buy while it was on sale. I use it mainly for work and some gaming. So far with cleartype, the text isn't that bad. It just looks a bit blurry to me. I may try that MacType. After 20 hours, no burn in.
I hope it lasts. The faster refresh compared to my older IPS (75hz) and reduction of blurring with fast moving scenes makes it worth it in my opinion. I may change my mind by 2400 hours if/when burn in appears.
I purchased the Alienware QD-OLED AW3423DW last week from Best Buy while it was on sale. I use it mainly for work and some gaming. So far with cleartype, the text isn't that bad. It just looks a bit blurry to me. I may try that MacType. After 20 hours, no burn in.
I hope it lasts. The faster refresh compared to my older IPS (75hz) and reduction of blurring with fast moving scenes makes it worth it in my opinion. I may change my mind by 2400 hours if/when burn in appears.
When did we have displays with HDR? I don't ever recall any home tech with HDR capabilities. CRT certainly didn't have it. One of the major issues with CRT was brightness. The brighter you pushed it, the more blooming you got and the less saturation you could get out of phosphors. That's why the sRGB standard got set at 80 nits and a dim room, not because that we something we though was awesome, but for display quality.
It is about ratio, but getting higher max level matters too. The thing is, we are only so sensitive to low light changes, particularly in the presence of brighter light and if we want color (cones don't function much if at all for low light levels). So we can't just make a display like OLED that goes to 0 black, and then have a low brightness but declare it "HDR" because we have a lot of driving levels in between. I could design a display that does 12-bit levels between 0 and 1 nit, but it would still look dark and uninteresting, and most of those changes would be unnoticeable. Really I would argue a more useful contrast measure for actual content would be the difference between the first symbol that has a noticeable change and the maximum output.
