What They Say
Although it doesn’t yet seem to be available in the US (according to my last check with B&H), Vincent Teoh at HDTV Test has got hold of a sample of the LG 32EP950 OLED Monitor (based on a JOLED RGB OLED panel) and reviewed it.
The panel has more than 3840 x 2160 pixels, although that is the maximum addressable number and the others are used to help with mitigating image burn-in on the JOLED panel.
Teoh found that low black levels tended to be a bit bright viewing HDR content, but he liked the colour accuracy. BT709 support was very accurate. Peak brightness with a 10% image was 551 cd/m². The monitor has several different settings for peak luminance when viewing HDR content with peaks of 1000-4000 cd/m².
Teoh compared the monitor with the professional Sony HX310 (dual LCD) which costs a lot more and found that at lower peak brightness, it was just as accurate. The monitor doesn’t support HLG or Dolby Vision, but the full screen white was 258cd/m² which is higher than other OLED displays that he has tested.
He mentioned that the panel was particularly good at avoiding image retention with static content – a full brightness window displayed for 10 seconds, followed by black did not show any retention. There is an automatic screen saver at 10 minutes.
DCI-P3 coverage is 99.92% with ‘remarkable’ colour accuracy, Teoh reported, with Rec. 2020 coverage of 80.83%.. Bright screen uniformity was very good. 10 bit gradients were well managed.
In summary, Teoh thinks that for content graders, the monitor is very good value and wins his ‘Recommended’ award.
What We Think
I thought that this review was a very good review and if you really care, it’s worth a look. I assume that as he has got hold of one, the monitors should start to be generally available (BR)
