Another ATL, $99.20 cheaper than my post in March.
As before, 140W via USB-PD, flat QD-OLED panel, glossy display. Displayport only supports UHBR10 so requires DSC for 4K240. A good alternative to the new Dell S3225QC for $1155 which is only 120Hz and has a somewhat controversially sized lower bezel (but is still a good deal IMO).
Are you going to use it for gaming or movies?
If not, do not get an oled screen. I love my oled screen, but only because I game alot on it, else I would stick with IPS.
Can you please elaborate? Why not oled for non-gaming/movies.
Cause burn in due to static content or productivity
@bruc3: Ok thanks. Given the new software doing refresh on the screen. They seems to be less of an issue according to most review. I'm just concerned about the blury text.
@cille745: The blury text or the burn in? I'm waiting for alienware 32 curve to go on sale. Hopefully that's OK for text, and good waranty from Dell.
@KiwiRoo: I have a Samsung Gen 2 panel which is a bit dated now, and personally I dont notice any difference in text between that and an ips screen.
Newer panels supposed to even be better with text, particularly the 4k screens.
@bruc3: Gaming would produce high risk for burn for OLEDs in I would have thought if you play the same game for long period of time.
For showing presentations you'd be better with an IPS screen because OLED get image burn-in when displaying the same image for a long time.
LG and Samsung versions are cheaper - what makes this better ?
Where?
I found LG 32 at $1399, same price for Samsung 32.
Samsung with $200 trade in and 10% chat loyalty discount (or edu discount) and can be pushed to about $1050. LG has $50 coupon off $350 and usually at least a 10% discount either off chat or edu store as well.
again, i can only see $100 trade in, how do you get $200?
Can you please tell me?
@inusure: There are two 32" 240hz OLED models - one of them has $50/$200 trade-in and the other $100/$100
You can get the Samsung for the same price with eBay Plus.
Brightness is only 250nits, that can't be right surely.
Yep, all QD-OLED panels can only do about 250 nits in SDR.
Sorry, what is DSC (and why does it matter)? I read one post about it not allowing for future proofing.
Display Stream Compression. Compresses each frame to allow framerates that would not be possible on a given bandwidth uncompressed. Supposed to be 'visually lossless', i.e a regular person should not be able to detect the difference between a compressed and uncompressed image most of the time.
Okay thanks. Any ideas how this compares with the LG and Samsung variants? Very similar price-points.
Yes both the Samsung G8 and the LG Ultragear require DSC on both inputs to display 4K 240 @ 10 bit colour depth. This is because they have HDMI 2.1 ports which only has 48Gbps bandwidth and DP 1.4 ports which only has 26Gbps. 4K 240 @ 10 bit colour depth without DSC requires nearly 80Gbps.
The HP has a DP 2.1 port but they only specced the UHBR 10 transmission mode which delivers about 39Gbps instead of UHBR 20 which does the necessary 77Gbps.
@Dogsrule: Thanks for the information. I can get the Samsung G8 and this OMEN for the same price, I'm struggling to find discernible differences between the two…same response time, same peak brightness, both VESA mountable (Samsung with adapter), same panel etc.
Is one better than the other/which one would you get?
The comment below is a nice simplification which I will take into account.
@J4ckal: The HP has 140W PD over USB C (you can power your laptop off it) and a KVM switch. On the other hand the Samsung has much higher 10% HDR brightness, something like 750 nits vs 330 nits.
Other than that the HP has a glossy display vs matte display of the Samsung.
Gloss vs matte is a personal preference and the KVM switch and 140W PD are user specific needs. The Samsung does have a clear advantage with HDR though.
I personally don't like matte displays so Samsung and LG are out for me.
@Dogsrule: Thanks so much. I think I'll go with the HP then as it would be situated in a dark environment so the brightness is not as important but I would like a darker appearing display (glossy) for media consumption. The other stuff are features I'll be unlikely to use but nice to have.
@J4ckal: I am leaned heavily towards the Samsung for media consumption due to having Tizen OS (native streaming services/TV built in)
HP is more similar to the Samsung in terms of image quality - since they have the same panel
Samsung is better for TV and streaming, than it is as a PC monitor due to its software.
HP is better as an all-rounder and it comes with the rare KVM switch.
How do these compare to the gaming 4k 240hz oleds from MSI, ASUS, Alienware etc? Seems similarly specced but at a lower price point? What am I missing here
MSI and ASUS don't sell direct to consumer so have retailer markups
Branding, features and aesthetics are the only differences, they all use the same Samsung QD-OLED panel.
this any good for powerpoints? thinking this or https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/907898