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>because desktop monitors have been stuck in a deadzone of zero innovation for the last 10 years.

That's a weird thing to say unless the pixel density is your one and only measure. Regardless of that, the posterization should be perfectly visible on a 2012 FullHD monitor, or even a 1366x768 TN screen of a decade-old laptop. Most commenters here are probably viewing the pictures on a scale different from 1:1.




> That's a weird thing to say unless the pixel density is your one and only measure.

Is it though? We now have OLED TVs and OLED smartphones.

Where's our OLED PC monitors?

On every measure, if you care about colors/contrast/black+white levels/resolution/density, the average computer monitor has fallen far behind.

You can't even buy a smartphone that has a panel half as bad as most PC monitors on the market. And, at least in my area, you'd actually have to go to a lot of effort to find a non-4k TV.


> Where's our OLED PC monitors?

https://computers.scorptec.com.au/computer/Oled-Monitor

They've been around for years.

PC monitors have been improving constantly with high refresh rates, local dimming HDR + 10 bit color, adaptive sync, OLED and more.


Only on the unusual high-end gaming monitors.


OLED is overwhelmingly reserved to high-end TVs and phones as well, so I think that point is moot.


My base iPhone 12 mini from years ago has OLED, so do a lot of cheaper Android phones. Gaming displays are far less common than these.


Phones have a smaller display which makes them easier to manufacter.


Yeah, that also supports how the iPads don't have OLED yet.


> Where's our OLED PC monitors?

https://www.displayninja.com/oled-monitor-list/

Mainly targeted towards the gaming market at the moment.


some of those prices are insane. Why are they so much more expensive that OLED TV's of similar size? Frame rate?


I dunno about TV much since I don't use them, but I have some ideas why it might be:

- Framerate - Response time - Adaptive sync - (how prone to burn-in is OLED? Monitors often have way more static images to TVs)

I assume combing these all might just make it more expensive than just individually each feature


> - Framerate - Response time - Adaptive sync - (how prone to burn-in is OLED? Monitors often have way more static images to TVs)

The much more complicated electronics plus Supply & Demand. Demand for TVs should be way higher then for high end monitors.




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