I sold that monitor and bought a QD-OLED Alienware as soon as they became available, but even my alienware QD-OLED's default SDR brightness was too damn high for my taste. That default setting meant that a lot of people had "unexplained" eye strain, and complained of "cracking noises!" (just the plastic expanding from the heat, but users thought there was something wrong with their unit, and just people potentially being blinded and tanned from the high brightness) So I immediately turned down the brightness to match 100 nits (the brightness setting was like 17 or 7 out of 100 if I recall correctly, almost all the way off!) I bought a 49" ultrawide Samsung Odyssey G9 in late 2020, and I couldn't believe how high the default brightness was: I could literally feel the heat on my face. LCD manufacturers tend to want to flex how bright their LCDs can get. SDR content is usually graded at 100 nits, and in a pitch black environment, even 100 nits might seem too bright if the APL is on the high side for how that content was graded. And at that point, you lose a lot of the benefits from OLED's contrast anyway, you might as well just get a crappy LCD and save some money while you're at it. I don't know if those reports are true (and I have no clue if they let their monitor do compensation cycles), but I have to wonder what their viewing environment is like, if they feel they have to use such high brightness, and if those people know of the existence of dark mode.īecause If your brightness needs to be set that high, it means you are using your display on a poorly light controlled viewing environment. I always chuckle when I read comments saying "there's already QD-OLED monitors with burn in!"
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