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a few months ago Samsung display gave us an early look at their unreleased

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quantum dot OLED TVs and gaming monitors and we made a video telling you guys how

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Blown Away we were by the image quality except there was one small problem that

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video was sponsored so many of you accused us of being overly enthusiastic

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well guess what this right here is the Alienware

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aw3423dw it's 175 Hertz it's got HDR and

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it's equipped with a brand new quantum dot OLED panel from Samsung display and

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because James was the one who did that last video I get to experience this Tech

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in the flesh for my very first time

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right in front of all of you and today

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there's no Samsung display sponsorship

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to be found because this video is sponsored by bitdefender bitdefender

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down below

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there's no time to waste so I'm all set up on this chair that we literally found

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in the alley I'm at the new house so there's no furniture here yet and we're

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gonna game on this bad boy what do we got for graphics horsepower here

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a 30 90. perfect oh should we talk about

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specs at all no no you just gotta get you got a game on it all right I'm gonna

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try it

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I've been so excited to try these ever since James came back from the early

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sneak peek the first thing I'm going to do is change it from hdr400 True black

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which is what you'd see on a typical OLED to HDR Peak 1000 that's right

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theoretically it has all the advantages of OLED which means perfect blacks

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but with a thousand nits Peak brightness

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we're gonna set the game to 3440 by 1440 which is the native resolution of this

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panel but while we're in the menu you guys probably noticed something g-sync

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is enabled and this isn't just regular g-sync this is g-sync Ultimate so that

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means we can have HDR and g-sync running at the same time

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all the bells and whistles or I can already tell HDR is working even just in

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the menu here we go here we go this is not as

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glinty and hdre as I would have expected

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yeah just normally you'd see like really

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eye searing like specular highlights on the car and stuff like that it's just

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not that okay this shaded house with the

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lit sky behind it is like kind of a crazy amount of

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dynamic range here like my eyes need to adjust to look from

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one part of the scene to the other that's insane there's still a lot of

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detail in here like when I look up into the sky with

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the sun behind it I'm like oh and then I

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look over here it's funny it really depends how the game is mastered in HDR

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it seems like in Forza they were really going for a more muted

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realistic HDR experience it is crazy how

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photorealistic this game looks on an accurate display this thing will do 99.3

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coverage of the DCI P3 color space and out of the factory we measured just a

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Delta e of two in Creator mode using kelman so that's accurate enough for

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pretty much professional work on a gaming display now we're in game

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mode right now just not Creator mode because we want to run it in HDR 1000

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but I was surprised

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how not overdone Samsung made their game mode usually Samsung is the king of just

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ridiculous vibrancy this looks great

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how sure are you that the game supports HDR Microsoft hides HDR under screen

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calibration okay we can decide how HDR

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we're going here

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well yeah I think so yeah

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okay this looks freaking awesome

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oh man love it I mean it won't make me good at

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video games but boy does it ever look good

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and wow I do not see any discernible

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color shift that is insane it's more like uh like

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looking at a picture almost like obviously it's self-emissive right

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like it's illuminated but you could forget you're looking at a monitor

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unreal it just looks awesome

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like what else is there to say effects and explosions look awesome

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of course we've seen Super Color accurate displays in the past that are

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totally unsuitable for gaming but that is not the case here one of the other

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big advantages of OLED is lightning fast

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pixel response times and that's still true here Samsung claims 0.1

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milliseconds gray to Gray and I can't see any discernible motion blur even

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when whipping the camera around that's freaking awesome also pixel response

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time is only part of the calculation you also need to factor in how much input

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lag there is from the display's electronics and we managed about 16

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milliseconds from click to photon with our NVIDIA ldat which is up there with

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the best gaming displays no responsive it's just what are the

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compromises what are the compromises find me one

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honestly like the clarity feels almost strobing clear to me like

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as I'm panning around there's just no blur now we should talk about Samsung's

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brightness claims for a little bit here we did manage to hit their claimed 1 000

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nits of peak brightness in a one or two percent window which doesn't sound like

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a lot but in a scene like this would you really have more than one or two percent

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of the screen that would actually be at Peak brightness you wouldn't even want

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to look at something that's at a thousand nits across the entire display so it does fall off you see about 800

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nits Peak brightness at 10 and then once

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you make your way all the way to full screen it sits in the neighborhood of

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280 nits which is a lot for this much of your field of

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view it's very respectable compared to other devices out there and when you

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factor in that it's got perfect blacks the perceived dynamic range is extremely

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high man look at this suit all glow and yellow and stuff

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Jake are you ordering one right now

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here get your Shield back where's your Shield does it recharge yeah there we go

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there we go watch this ah it looks so good

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okay sorry I'm supposed to try a different game now oh this game looks so

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good like Forza had that realism kind of

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you know HDR effect but this is like whoa fantasy environment HDR you know

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it's just different it hits different

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all right we're in a much darker scene now but this is a really good

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opportunity to talk about one of the big benefits of qdo-led which is much better

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representations of red and yellow which

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are traditionally really difficult to handle and you get mad it's going to be

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hard to capture this on camera through your monitor but I I tell you guys the

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gold doesn't look yellow like gold tends

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to look on a normal display it looks it looks gold it looks shiny

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is I don't think I've ever seen anything

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quite like it and I should shoot it apparently oh

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the thing about HDR is it's not about

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just more FPS right which is what we think about in terms of what makes

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something better for gaming it's about increasing the immersiveness and when a

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game is mastered well in HDR

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it's more realistic looking this looks and feels like I'm standing

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in the room I have actually I have a confession to

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make gamer confession I have never played an re game

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disappointed like your eyes need to

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adjust to perceive the difference

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it doesn't let you jump up ladders this is one of those Kane's games

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something to note though is that our RTX 3090 is working pretty freaking hard to

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make this look this good we could even benefit from a 3090 TI upgrade get

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subscribed by the way because we do have a review of that coming

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here we go I missed one of them to shoot

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okay are we close yeah

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oh that's really close isn't it

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oh stop I can't get rid of the menu

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so we're in filmmaker mode on the LG TV

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yeah you lose a ton of the detail here

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but it's all there to be clear LG's oleds this is a C1

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great viewing angles compared to anything that we had seen before but

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this is next level it doesn't matter

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where you are in the room now one of the TVs with this coming I

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definitely want to see a TV with a proper filmmaker mode with this display Tech I feel like it could be even better

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okay until now we've talked about some of the reasons the

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aw3423dw looks so good but I'm sure you

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guys want more depth it starts with the QD OLED panel from Samsung display which

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works very differently from a typical white OLED or W OLED panel by starting

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with blue light instead of white then they filter that blue light with inkjet

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printed Quantum dots hence the QD in QD

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OLED we've got another video explaining this more in depth that you can check

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out here but basically by starting with a high frequency wave like blue across

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the entire panel and then stepping that light down into red green or anything in

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between through Quantum dots you lose very little light in contrast to the

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current W OLED method which filters

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colors rather than converting them and because there's no white subpixel colors

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don't get washed out when you're trying to make them look brighter and because

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we're being more efficient and not lose using light to color filters we're also

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not driving the panel as hard so the Alienware qdl lid here does have a

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manual and an automatic pixel or panel

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refresher option but the tech has come so far that we're just not anywhere near

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as afraid of burning as we used to be on top of that Dell is so confident in

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Samsung's panels that they are offering a three year warranty that includes

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burn-in now we're still waiting for some official statements from Samsung about

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results from Factory testing but confidence is pretty high that you can

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finally leave up your UI during a marathon gaming session and not worry

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about it sticking around when it's time to watch a movie as for the rest of the monitor you can

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put it either on the stand or on a standard base amount and it's got a

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two-tone white and black plastic case with RGB Lighting on the back there's

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lots of i o including this is really cool two USB ports on the bottom making

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them way easier to reach than most monitors and there's a navigation nipple

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down there for the on-screen display which has tons of Handy options and is

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really easy to use it's got decent Cable Management through the stand and while

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the inner and outer bezel leaves a little bit to be desired

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they immediately stopped noticing it as soon as there was content up on the

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screen there's also an acceptable level of pen swivel and tilt with the included

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stand meaning that Alienware might have just made almost every other Ultra wide

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1440p monitor irrelevant especially given the price it's 12.99 us

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which is a lot of money but right now if

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you look for similar specs with an IPS panel rather than a QD OLED

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you're not going to find many at significantly cheaper prices this

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34-inch Ultra gear from LG 1250. there's

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a cheaper Ultra gear but it has way worse HDR uses regular IPS instead of

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Nano IPS and it's only g-sync compatible not g-sync ultimate and that one's still

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a thousand dollars so you have to ask yourself is cutie OLED worth spending an

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extra 300 bucks it's not going to be in everyone's budget but we think that if

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you're already in that kind of price range the answer is most definitely yes

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and we're going to have this and these other displays linked down below so you

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can make your own decision later now part of the reason the price is not

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in the several thousand dollars category is the ability to get so many panels of

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this size from one sheet of mother glass that's the name for the giant slabs of

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glass that TVs and monitors are cut from we don't know exactly what Samsung

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display is doing but at 2.5 by 2.2

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meters you can fit 18 of this on a

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single sheet instead of trying to cut a few out of the leftover glass from the

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larger displays like 75 inches TVs now

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Samsung is reporting some low yields on this Tech as low as 30 percent but since

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so many screens are being cut from a single sheet once small defect doesn't

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necessarily mean that one-sixth of your entire sheet is now garbage and as time

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goes on and the yield rate increases a nice thing about it being so low is that

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there's a lot of room for improvement so the price should come down even further

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product good price All Things Considered so this is what you buy right

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well yes but also no this is the first

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cutie OLED gaming monitor on the market and while it seems great you're always

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taking a bit of a risk with new tech there's also no real competition yet and

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there are sure to be a plethora of qdo-led options in the not so distant

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future we could see better prices or I

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mean who knows maybe you just don't really like the design of the stand or the housing that Alienware has given us

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here so jumping in now honestly looks like a goodbye to me but there are bound

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to be more options to choose from if you have a bit of patience as for me my C10

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is two generations old at this point so uh this is looking like a pretty good

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about qdo-led you can check out the Samsung just made everything else

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the title really does say it all guys this is a really cool display Tech

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