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I spent $200 for this?

  Cons: No HDR, and the 4ms refresh is obvious when dealing with text, scrolling websites, or moving your mouse in a game over text will show ghosting issues.  Not bad and not a huge issue, will bug you if you notice small details though.

The 4ms is obvious with text.

I could make this into a rant, but I'd rather point this out in the most analytical way that I can. It's important that gamers understand this, because so long as we keep falling for marketing and continue to not hold manufacturers accountable, we're going to keep getting garbage instead of proper innovation and advancement.

Picture quality on today's gaming monitors is absolute balderdash (yea, look who busted out the thesaurus!) compared to a quality TV. Granted, there is a cost difference. It is wholly unfair to compare a $500 gaming monitor to a $2,000+ OLED TV. While we can normalize or account for for cost, I want to focus on the feature differences.

For years gaming monitors and TVs served two separate segments. A TV was a viewing experience first, and a gaming experience as a secondary function. Picture quality was all that they cared about, and consoles were designed within their 1080p and 60hz limitations, accepting their higher input lag as "the cost of doing business." PC monitors focused on reducing input lag and response times, increasing refresh rates, and adding adaptive-sync support. And until the advent of 4K TVs, PC monitors always won the resolution battle. Even today they still do, as there's no TV that offers a middle-ground between 1080p and 4k or wider aspect ratios.

But gaming TVs are becoming a thing. They support higher refresh rates. They offer lower input lag. G-Sync and Freesync are moving into the segment. And gaming monitors? They should be responding by improving picture quality. Instead, they're making it worse. Here are the key areas where gaming monitors need to improve in picture quality going forward.

#Screen Coatings

When it comes to raw picture quality glossy is superior to matte. Yes, it has a horrible weakness - glare/reflection handling. It simply cannot handle that. With many offices having large windows (mine go from floor to ceiling), matte screen coatings are required for typical office usage. But in my man-cave/gaming space? There's a reason most TVs are glossy. And I'm not saying that all or even most monitors should be glossy, but can we get at least one viable option?

And the worst part? Monitor manufacturers know that some of us want glossy, so they take steps to advertise their monitors in terms that would make them appear to be glossy to internet buyers.

* [Example 1](https://www.dell.com/en-us/member/shop/dell-27-usb-c-ultrathin-monitor-s2719dc/apd/210-aqpv/monitors-monitor-accessories) - Dell advertises this one as being glossy, using  an "Arsenic-free glass and mercury-free panel". I've used it. It sure is glossy. The problem? Under screen coating it says - "Anti-glare, 3H Hard Coating." But wait, it's glossy in person, right? Yea, they put the matte film UNDER the glass, so you get the worst of both worlds - the glare/reflection of glass, and the graininess/dirty look of matte. It's quite the fugly combination. I noticed it the minute I powered it on.
* [Example 2](https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Simple-Monitor-Glossy-S22D300NY/dp/B00IEZGZY8) - Samsung has been doing this for years. The "glossy" part is the plastic shell and bezel. They know what they're doing. The display is matte.

Again, and I cannot stress this enough - if you prefer matte you should buy matte. But if you have the ability to control for reflections/glare, glossy offers superior picture quality as it does not tamper with the outgoing light/color from the panel. I find it ironic (moronic?) that devices we use outdoors (phones, tablets, laptops, convertibles) are mostly glossy, but the monitors that we use indoors are almost exclusively matte.

#Proper Gamut Support

PC games are mastered for one of two gamuts. If a game supports HDR10, then when HDR is enabled it uses the D65-P3 (not DCI-P3) gamut. sRGB is the gamut used for games that either do not support HDR, or do support HDR but the user has HDR disabled. A proper non-HDR monitor should target 100% sRGB. A proper wide-gamut monitor should target D65-P3. And as for a proper HDR monitor? I'll expand on that in the next section. Here, I'll focus on gamut.

As for DCI-P3 vs. D65-P3, there isn't a whole lot of difference. Their range of color is the same. What's different is the target white point (6500k for D65, 6300k for DCI) and gamma (2.2 vs. 2.6). You'll find that most monitors claiming DCI-P3 support are actually targeting D65-P3 in terms of white point and gamma, which is ideal.

Next, many people confuse number of colors (bit-depth) with range of colors (gamut), so let's use this visual exercise. Imagine you're wrapping a rubber-band around a bunch of pencils. The pencils are the number of colors (bit-depth), and the rubber band's circumference is the range of color (gamut). Now, stretch the rubber band out. In real life, the pencils would fall to the ground, but let's pretend that they can float in open space between the rubber band. We haven't changed the number of colors, we've just spaced them out. Because there's more space, we just created an artifact - banding, which seeks to fill those gaps between the available colors. This is why it's best to pair wider gamuts with more colors. This is why sRGB is often paired with 8-bit (16.7M colors), and P3 is often paired with 10-bit (1.07B colors) or higher. You CAN pair 10-bit with sRGB, and if done properly, you'll get smoother gradients. And you could pair 8-bit with P3, but you'd absolutely get banding.

Which brings us to the next part, gamut coverage. You want 100% here. How much of the gamut is covered by the monitor will determine how saturated or washed-out the colors will look. Anything below 100% leads to under-saturation. Anything above 100% leads to over-saturation. An ideal monitor would have 100% sRGB and 100% P3 with the ability to switch between both. The Windows 10 HD Color setting, when enabled, actually tells the display which gamut is in use by the active application. The problem? No PC monitor that I'm aware of does anything with it. My LG C9 does, switching between standard- (sRGB) and wide- (P3) gamuts on the fly based on the game I'm playing. Instead, most monitors (all?) remain in the wide-gamut mode, causing over-saturation in many games.

But that's not the only issue with gamut support. We also have abominations like the LG 34GK950G where they claim DCI-P3 support, but don't actually have a wide-gamut and/or HDR mode. They're just over-saturated sRGB displays. It's a bug marketed as a feature, and we fall for it. And IMO, it's also false advertising. As far as I'm concerned, any monitor marketed as XX% DCI-P3, but doesn't offer an actual wide-gamut mode, should be pulled from market and the manufacturer fined for deliberately false marketing.

sRGB displays should target 100% sRGB. P3 displays should target 100% D65-P3 (I know this is expensive, and today's Quantum-Dot and Nanocell options at 95-98% are excellent budget alternatives for the time being), with a 100% sRGB mode available and, most importantly, the ability to auto-switch between the two modes based on what Windows HD Color is reporting to the display.

We get those changes, and suddenly we're going to start seeing games the way that the developers intended for us to see them.


#"Proper" HDR Support

HDR covers two key areas - an expanded range of color, and an expanded range of luminance. I've covered the expanded range of color in the prior segment, so I won't harp on that too much here (though it does have some relevance worth touching upon).

Luminance is the part that many people simply do not understand. They're on the "1,000 nits or bust!" bandwagon. The whole point of HDR is that bright highlights should starkly contrast with the darker scenes of the image. Imagine a 400 nit OLED vs. a 1,000 nit LCD with a standard edge-lit array. Which offers better HDR? The former. Why? Because highlights can be 400 nits and dark scenes can be at or near zero. And the 1,000 nit option? It will briefly flash the entire screen. Using global illumination, you get a variable level of brightness from scene to scene, but you don't get a range of luminance within the scene.

Because of this, I'm of the opinion that HDR should not be attempted if they cannot divide the scene into zones. Instead, allow the monitor to work with Windows HD Color and then when "HDR" is enabled in the game, you simply get a wide-gamut version of the game (greater range of color), but the monitor doesn't screw up the luminance with its modern rendition of Dynamic Contrast Ratio. Because that's all HDR with a static backlight is, a modern version of DCR, which was always a joke.

Then VESA can simplify their HDR certifications to something like this:

* HDR Basic XX - Wide-gamut with no extended range of luminance. The XX is the % of coverage for the P3 gamut, where 100 is ideal. So HDR Basic 85 would be in a typical budget display, and HDR Basic 95 to 98 would be in a Quantum-Dot (Samsung QLED) or Nanocell (LG Nano-IPS) display.
* HDR Pro XXXX - Wide Gamut of 95% or better, and proper local or per-pixel dimming, with the XXXX corresponding to the peak brightness supported.

Most of today's VESA 400/600 displays would fit under HDR Basic, though they should lose the awful DCR-like mode and just roll with the wide-gamut.

#Calibration

I'll always advocate for support for hardware calibration, but there are only a handful of Freesync-capable displays that support it. Due to this, we're limited to software calibration - the creation of a color profile. Now, despite what Tim from Hardware Unboxed stated, yes, games can work with a color profile in Windows 10. The problem? Some do, some don't, and some show weird issues with it. The ideal setup is where a color profile is not needed for gaming. And we achieve that in the following way:

* Monitor manufacturers make a reasonable effort to calibrate their displays from the factory (some do, most don't).
* The OSD needs to allow for proper color controls and, (this is for you Dell!), allow for adjustment of the gamma. This way we can tune the white point and gamma without the need for a color profile. The combination of pre-calibrated color accuracy (dE AVG &lt; 2 preferred), 100% targeted gamut support, and user adjustable white point + gamma would get us "close enough" for day-to-day use. A color profile could be created by the user with their colorimeter if they want to fine-tune to perfection for the content that will support it.

##Summary

Gaming monitors going forward need to do the following:

* Offer true glossy options for those who want them.
* Accept the signal from Windows HD Color and auto-switch between sRGB and P3 based on the current content in use.
* Divide HDR support into two easy-to-understand tiers, with budget displays offering wide-gamut and static-luminance, and higher-end displays offering a wider range of both gamut and luminance.
* Pre-calibrate the display and give uses the tools we need within the OSD so that we don't have to rely on color profiles, which are inconsistent in their support among games.


#One More Thing (trigger warning: Consoles)

I've often heard people insist that consoles have better graphics than PC. Objectively, they're wrong. But subjectively, I finally understand where they're coming from.

I have two PCs for my own use, one on my desktop and one in my living room. The desktop gets a current-gen GPU (currently an RTX 2060), and the living room gets the hand-me-down (my old GTX 1060). I'm currently playing through Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and here are the settings:

* RTX 2060 | Alienware AW3418DW | 3440x1440 w/DLSS, Highest Preset, ~60fps
* GTX 1060 | LG C9 65" | 1920x1080, Medium preset (2 presets lower), 60fps w/Vsync enabled (no G-Sync with this card on this display).

Subjectively, the latter looks better to both myself and my wife. While the desktop looks objectively superior (higher resolution, wider aspect ratio, higher in-game settings), the graininess offered by the display's matte film, the lack of wide-gamut and/or HDR support on my monitor, the poorer contrast (IPS vs. OLED), they all add up as too many obstacles.

So when a console fanboy says they feel that their games look better than on PC, yea, it could be out of ignorance. Or, they could simply be accounting for the display in use, something that we haven't paid enough attention to. Well, we need to start paying attention. Because displays are now the bottleneck for graphical fidelity.

<div class="md"><p>I could make this into a rant, but I&#39;d rather point this out in the most analytical way that I can. It&#39;s important that gamers understand this, because so long as we keep falling for marketing and continue to not hold manufacturers accountable, we&#39;re going to keep getting garbage instead of proper innovation and advancement.</p>

<p>Picture quality on today&#39;s gaming monitors is absolute balderdash (yea, look who busted out the thesaurus!) compared to a quality TV. Granted, there is a cost difference. It is wholly unfair to compare a $500 gaming monitor to a $2,000+ OLED TV. While we can normalize or account for for cost, I want to focus on the feature differences.</p>

<p>For years gaming monitors and TVs served two separate segments. A TV was a viewing experience first, and a gaming experience as a secondary function. Picture quality was all that they cared about, and consoles were designed within their 1080p and 60hz limitations, accepting their higher input lag as &quot;the cost of doing business.&quot; PC monitors focused on reducing input lag and response times, increasing refresh rates, and adding adaptive-sync support. And until the advent of 4K TVs, PC monitors always won the resolution battle. Even today they still do, as there&#39;s no TV that offers a middle-ground between 1080p and 4k or wider aspect ratios.</p>

<p>But gaming TVs are becoming a thing. They support higher refresh rates. They offer lower input lag. G-Sync and Freesync are moving into the segment. And gaming monitors? They should be responding by improving picture quality. Instead, they&#39;re making it worse. Here are the key areas where gaming monitors need to improve in picture quality going forward.</p>

<h1>Screen Coatings</h1>

<p>When it comes to raw picture quality glossy is superior to matte. Yes, it has a horrible weakness - glare/reflection handling. It simply cannot handle that. With many offices having large windows (mine go from floor to ceiling), matte screen coatings are required for typical office usage. But in my man-cave/gaming space? There&#39;s a reason most TVs are glossy. And I&#39;m not saying that all or even most monitors should be glossy, but can we get at least one viable option?</p>

<p>And the worst part? Monitor manufacturers know that some of us want glossy, so they take steps to advertise their monitors in terms that would make them appear to be glossy to internet buyers.</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.dell.com/en-us/member/shop/dell-27-usb-c-ultrathin-monitor-s2719dc/apd/210-aqpv/monitors-monitor-accessories">Example 1</a> - Dell advertises this one as being glossy, using  an &quot;Arsenic-free glass and mercury-free panel&quot;. I&#39;ve used it. It sure is glossy. The problem? Under screen coating it says - &quot;Anti-glare, 3H Hard Coating.&quot; But wait, it&#39;s glossy in person, right? Yea, they put the matte film UNDER the glass, so you get the worst of both worlds - the glare/reflection of glass, and the graininess/dirty look of matte. It&#39;s quite the fugly combination. I noticed it the minute I powered it on.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Simple-Monitor-Glossy-S22D300NY/dp/B00IEZGZY8">Example 2</a> - Samsung has been doing this for years. The &quot;glossy&quot; part is the plastic shell and bezel. They know what they&#39;re doing. The display is matte.</li>
</ul>

<p>Again, and I cannot stress this enough - if you prefer matte you should buy matte. But if you have the ability to control for reflections/glare, glossy offers superior picture quality as it does not tamper with the outgoing light/color from the panel. I find it ironic (moronic?) that devices we use outdoors (phones, tablets, laptops, convertibles) are mostly glossy, but the monitors that we use indoors are almost exclusively matte.</p>

<h1>Proper Gamut Support</h1>

<p>PC games are mastered for one of two gamuts. If a game supports HDR10, then when HDR is enabled it uses the D65-P3 (not DCI-P3) gamut. sRGB is the gamut used for games that either do not support HDR, or do support HDR but the user has HDR disabled. A proper non-HDR monitor should target 100% sRGB. A proper wide-gamut monitor should target D65-P3. And as for a proper HDR monitor? I&#39;ll expand on that in the next section. Here, I&#39;ll focus on gamut.</p>

<p>As for DCI-P3 vs. D65-P3, there isn&#39;t a whole lot of difference. Their range of color is the same. What&#39;s different is the target white point (6500k for D65, 6300k for DCI) and gamma (2.2 vs. 2.6). You&#39;ll find that most monitors claiming DCI-P3 support are actually targeting D65-P3 in terms of white point and gamma, which is ideal.</p>

<p>Next, many people confuse number of colors (bit-depth) with range of colors (gamut), so let&#39;s use this visual exercise. Imagine you&#39;re wrapping a rubber-band around a bunch of pencils. The pencils are the number of colors (bit-depth), and the rubber band&#39;s circumference is the range of color (gamut). Now, stretch the rubber band out. In real life, the pencils would fall to the ground, but let&#39;s pretend that they can float in open space between the rubber band. We haven&#39;t changed the number of colors, we&#39;ve just spaced them out. Because there&#39;s more space, we just created an artifact - banding, which seeks to fill those gaps between the available colors. This is why it&#39;s best to pair wider gamuts with more colors. This is why sRGB is often paired with 8-bit (16.7M colors), and P3 is often paired with 10-bit (1.07B colors) or higher. You CAN pair 10-bit with sRGB, and if done properly, you&#39;ll get smoother gradients. And you could pair 8-bit with P3, but you&#39;d absolutely get banding.</p>

<p>Which brings us to the next part, gamut coverage. You want 100% here. How much of the gamut is covered by the monitor will determine how saturated or washed-out the colors will look. Anything below 100% leads to under-saturation. Anything above 100% leads to over-saturation. An ideal monitor would have 100% sRGB and 100% P3 with the ability to switch between both. The Windows 10 HD Color setting, when enabled, actually tells the display which gamut is in use by the active application. The problem? No PC monitor that I&#39;m aware of does anything with it. My LG C9 does, switching between standard- (sRGB) and wide- (P3) gamuts on the fly based on the game I&#39;m playing. Instead, most monitors (all?) remain in the wide-gamut mode, causing over-saturation in many games.</p>

<p>But that&#39;s not the only issue with gamut support. We also have abominations like the LG 34GK950G where they claim DCI-P3 support, but don&#39;t actually have an HDR mode. They support wide-gamut, but games don&#39;t run in wide-gamut without HDR support (with VERY few exceptions). They&#39;re effectively just over-saturated sRGB displays. It&#39;s a bug marketed as a feature, and we fall for it.</p>

<p>sRGB displays should target 100% sRGB. P3 displays should target 100% D65-P3 (I know this is expensive, and today&#39;s Quantum-Dot and Nanocell options at 95-98% are excellent budget alternatives for the time being), with a 100% sRGB mode available and, most importantly, the ability to auto-switch between the two modes based on what Windows HD Color is reporting to the display.</p>

<p>We get those changes, and suddenly we&#39;re going to start seeing games the way that the developers intended for us to see them.</p>

<h1>&quot;Proper&quot; HDR Support</h1>

<p>HDR covers two key areas - an expanded range of color, and an expanded range of luminance. I&#39;ve covered the expanded range of color in the prior segment, so I won&#39;t harp on that too much here (though it does have some relevance worth touching upon).</p>

<p>Luminance is the part that many people simply do not understand. They&#39;re on the &quot;1,000 nits or bust!&quot; bandwagon. The whole point of HDR is that bright highlights should starkly contrast with the darker scenes of the image. Imagine a 400 nit OLED vs. a 1,000 nit LCD with a standard edge-lit array. Which offers better HDR? The former. Why? Because highlights can be 400 nits and dark scenes can be at or near zero. And the 1,000 nit option? It will briefly flash the entire screen. Using global illumination, you get a variable level of brightness from scene to scene, but you don&#39;t get a range of luminance within the scene.</p>

<p>Because of this, I&#39;m of the opinion that HDR luminance should not be attempted if they cannot divide the scene into zones. Instead, allow the monitor to work with Windows HD Color and then when &quot;HDR&quot; is enabled in the game, you simply get a wide-gamut version of the game (greater range of color), but the monitor doesn&#39;t screw up the luminance with its modern rendition of Dynamic Contrast Ratio. Because that&#39;s all HDR with a static backlight is, a modern version of DCR, which was always a joke.</p>

<p>Then VESA can simplify their HDR certifications to something like this:</p>

<ul>
<li>HDR Basic XX - Wide-gamut with no extended range of luminance. The XX is the % of coverage for the P3 gamut, where 100 is ideal. So HDR Basic 85 would be in a typical budget display, and HDR Basic 95 to 98 would be in a Quantum-Dot (Samsung QLED) or Nanocell (LG Nano-IPS) display.</li>
<li>HDR Pro XXXX - Wide Gamut of 95% or better, and proper local or per-pixel dimming, with the XXXX corresponding to the peak brightness supported.</li>
</ul>

<p>Most of today&#39;s VESA 400/600 displays would fit under HDR Basic, though they should lose the awful DCR-like mode and just roll with the wide-gamut.</p>

<h1>Calibration</h1>

<p>I&#39;ll always advocate for support for hardware calibration, but there are only a handful of Freesync-capable displays that support it. Due to this, we&#39;re limited to software calibration - the creation of a color profile. Now, despite what Tim from Hardware Unboxed stated, yes, games can work with a color profile in Windows 10. The problem? Some do, some don&#39;t, and some show weird issues with it. The ideal setup is where a color profile is not needed for gaming. And we achieve that in the following way:</p>

<ul>
<li>Monitor manufacturers make a reasonable effort to calibrate their displays from the factory (some do, most don&#39;t).</li>
<li>The OSD needs to allow for proper color controls and, (this is for you Dell!) allow for adjustment of the gamma. This way we can tune the white point and gamma without the need for a color profile. The combination of pre-calibrated color accuracy (dE AVG &lt; 2 preferred), 100% targeted gamut support, and user adjustable white point + gamma would get us &quot;close enough&quot; for day-to-day use. A color profile could be created by the user with their colorimeter if they want to fine-tune to perfection for the content that will support it.</li>
</ul>

<h1>Summary</h1>

<p>Gaming monitors going forward need to do the following:</p>

<ul>
<li>Offer true glossy options for those who want them.</li>
<li>Accept the signal from Windows HD Color and auto-switch between sRGB and P3 based on the current content in use.</li>
<li>Divide HDR support into two easy-to-understand tiers, with budget displays offering wide-gamut and static-luminance, and higher-end displays offering a wider range of both gamut and luminance.</li>
<li>Pre-calibrate the display and give users the tools we need within the OSD so that we don&#39;t have to rely on color profiles, which are inconsistent in their support among games.</li>
</ul>

<h1>One More Thing (trigger warning: Consoles)</h1>

<p>I&#39;ve often heard people insist that consoles have better graphics than PC. Objectively, they&#39;re wrong. But subjectively, I finally understand where they&#39;re coming from.</p>

<p>I have two PCs for my own use, one on my desktop and one in my living room. The desktop gets a current-gen GPU (currently an RTX 2060), and the living room gets the hand-me-down (my old GTX 1060). I&#39;m currently playing through Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and here are the settings:</p>

<ul>
<li>RTX 2060 | Alienware AW3418DW | 3440x1440 w/DLSS, Highest Preset, ~60fps</li>
<li>GTX 1060 | LG C9 65&quot; | 1920x1080, Medium preset (2 presets lower), 60fps w/Vsync enabled (no G-Sync with this card on this display).</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjectively, the latter looks better to both myself and my wife. While the desktop looks objectively superior (higher resolution, wider aspect ratio, higher in-game settings), the graininess offered by the display&#39;s matte film, the lack of wide-gamut and/or HDR support on my monitor, the poorer contrast (IPS vs. OLED), they all add up as too many obstacles.</p>

<p>So when a console fanboy says they feel that their games look better than on PC, yea, it could be out of ignorance. Or, they could simply be accounting for the display in use, something that we haven&#39;t paid enough attention to. Well, we need to start paying attention. Because displays are now the bottleneck for graphical fidelity.</p>
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Gaming monitors have sub-standard picture quality, and I'd like to see that change.

I've been waiting for a 1440p IPS 144Hz+ GSYNC monitor for awhile now after I got the GTX 980 Ti. Coming from a 60Hz Korean IPS monitor, the 120/144Hz with GSYNC makes a HUGE difference in terms of smoothness in desktop and in games (though the game I'm playing is locked at 120 fps, I could feel the difference). Everything is so fluidly smooth and there is definitely less ghosting!

Tip: Turn "Quick start" ON and "Deep Sleep" OFF to increase the power button responsiveness.

Awesome monitor despite some flaws!

 I quote: " "Hi all,  We would like to apologize again to all users who are experiencing the reported issue with their monitor. The issue is caused by the G-Sync firmware, and impacts monitors from a variety of manufacturers. The resolution is to have the monitor updated to the latest G-Sync firmware at an authorized Acer repair facility. The issue should be resolved for firmware versions 160613 and newer

 The resolution is to have the monitor updated to the latest G-Sync firmware at an authorized Acer repair facility. The issue should be resolved for firmware versions 160613 and newer. Even with the newly applied firmware, there are rare and isolated instances where you may encounter the issue. If you do, we suggest turning your monitor off, then back on

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