What They Say
Yesterday, I speculated that as Samsung was not announcing any QD-OLED TVs at CES, then Sony might be the first to announce such a set and that turned out to be the case. The firm announced the A95K which will be the Sony flagship for 2022 (it also announced its first miniLED TVs – the Z9K [75″/85″ 8K] and X95K [65″75″/85″ UHD]).
One of our team has seen the QD-OLED side-by-side demo at the show, already and was clear that ‘the consumer will see the difference’. Viewing angle performance is better than WOLED (although WOLED is not bad in this area) and colour volume is better with more saturation at higher luminance. The display also has lower reflections than WOLED and the overall dynamic range should be better than WOLED because of the higher brightness.
The panel is reported to have support for 90.3% of Rec 2020 on the TVs (although just 80.7% on the 34″ monitor panel that will be introduced on monitors by Samsung and Dell/Alienware). The panel can support 1,000 cd/m² on a 10% window with up to 1,500 cd/m² for 3% and 250 cd/m² for full screen, while the monitor reaches 450 cd/m², 1,000 cd/m² and 200 cd/m² on the respective white windows. Sony has used its experience with WOLED to add a heat sink to its TV.
Refresh is up to 144Hz for TVs, 175Hz for monitors based on current drivers.
The Samsung monitor was not expected to be seen on the show floor, but the G8QNB 34″ curved (1800R) 3880 x 1440 monitor with 99% of DCI-P3 was given an Innovation award, as one of its TVs was. The Dell Monitor is reported to support the DisplayHDR 400 True Black certification. The Dell monitor is reported as being available at the end of Q1 2022 (with pricing tba). Tom’s Hardware said the set was ‘one of the most jaw-dropping displays I’ve ever laid my eyes on’.
What We Think
It’s great to see the comments about viewing angles. It has always seemed a big issue to me that monitors show different colours when you look at them from different angles, but Toms Hardware were particularly impressed with the Dell monitor. (BR)
Dell’s QD-OLED monitor – Image:Future
