WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:07.379 a few months ago Samsung display gave us an early look at their unreleased 00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:11.700 quantum dot OLED TVs and gaming monitors and we made a video telling you guys how 00:00:09.599 --> 00:00:15.540 Blown Away we were by the image quality except there was one small problem that 00:00:13.799 --> 00:00:21.119 video was sponsored so many of you accused us of being overly enthusiastic 00:00:18.300 --> 00:00:27.599 well guess what this right here is the Alienware 00:00:22.699 --> 00:00:30.119 aw3423dw it's 175 Hertz it's got HDR and 00:00:27.599 --> 00:00:35.040 it's equipped with a brand new quantum dot OLED panel from Samsung display and 00:00:33.239 --> 00:00:40.800 because James was the one who did that last video I get to experience this Tech 00:00:37.500 --> 00:00:43.920 in the flesh for my very first time 00:00:40.800 --> 00:00:47.160 right in front of all of you and today 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:49.500 there's no Samsung display 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from the early 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:43.560 sneak peek the first thing I'm going to do is change it from hdr400 True black 00:01:41.579 --> 00:01:49.560 which is what you'd see on a typical OLED to HDR Peak 1000 that's right 00:01:46.860 --> 00:01:56.520 theoretically it has all the advantages of OLED which means perfect blacks 00:01:52.860 --> 00:01:59.159 but with a thousand nits Peak brightness 00:01:56.520 --> 00:02:02.280 we're gonna set the game to 3440 by 1440 which is the native resolution of this 00:02:00.479 --> 00:02:05.759 panel but while we're in the menu you guys probably noticed something g-sync 00:02:03.960 --> 00:02:11.099 is enabled and this isn't just regular g-sync this is g-sync Ultimate so that 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:15.720 means we can have HDR and g-sync running at the same time 00:02:12.780 --> 00:02:19.200 all the bells and whistles or I can already tell HDR is working even just in 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:25.920 the menu here we go here we go this is not as 00:02:22.860 --> 00:02:29.760 glinty and hdre as I would have expected 00:02:25.920 --> 00:02:32.520 yeah just normally you'd see like really 00:02:29.760 --> 00:02:37.920 eye searing like specular highlights on the car and stuff like that it's just 00:02:34.260 --> 00:02:39.720 not that okay this shaded house with the 00:02:37.920 --> 00:02:44.700 lit sky behind it is like kind of a crazy amount of 00:02:43.019 --> 00:02:50.940 dynamic range here like my eyes need to adjust to look from 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:56.640 one part of the scene to the other that's insane there's still a lot of 00:02:54.599 --> 00:03:02.940 detail in here like when I look up into the sky with 00:02:58.980 --> 00:03:05.280 the sun behind it I'm like oh and then I 00:03:02.940 --> 00:03:10.800 look over here it's funny it really depends how the game is mastered in HDR 00:03:08.640 --> 00:03:20.099 it seems like in Forza they were really going for a more muted 00:03:13.760 --> 00:03:22.019 realistic HDR experience it is crazy how 00:03:20.099 --> 00:03:28.140 photorealistic this game looks on an accurate display this thing will do 99.3 00:03:25.319 --> 00:03:33.420 coverage of the DCI P3 color space and out of the factory we measured just a 00:03:31.019 --> 00:03:38.459 Delta e of two in Creator mode using kelman so that's accurate enough for 00:03:35.760 --> 00:03:43.019 pretty much professional work on a gaming display now we're in game 00:03:41.040 --> 00:03:49.620 mode right now just not Creator mode because we want to run it in HDR 1000 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:52.560 but I was surprised 00:03:49.620 --> 00:04:02.780 how not overdone Samsung made their game mode usually Samsung is the king of just 00:03:57.500 --> 00:04:02.780 ridiculous vibrancy this looks great 00:04:07.140 --> 00:04:17.940 how sure are you that the game supports HDR Microsoft hides HDR under screen 00:04:13.980 --> 00:04:20.780 calibration okay we can decide how HDR 00:04:17.940 --> 00:04:20.780 we're going here 00:04:21.780 --> 00:04:26.400 well yeah I think so yeah 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:33.660 okay this looks freaking awesome 00:04:31.139 --> 00:04:39.000 oh man love it I mean it won't make me good at 00:04:36.780 --> 00:04:45.600 video games but boy does it ever look good 00:04:41.940 --> 00:04:47.880 and wow I do not see any discernible 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:55.740 color shift that is insane it's more like uh like 00:04:52.919 --> 00:05:00.180 looking at a picture almost like obviously it's self-emissive right 00:04:57.780 --> 00:05:04.380 like it's illuminated but you could forget you're looking at a monitor 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:09.240 unreal it just looks awesome 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:13.500 like what else is there to say effects and explosions look awesome 00:05:11.400 --> 00:05:17.340 of course we've seen Super Color accurate displays in the past that are 00:05:15.300 --> 00:05:22.500 totally unsuitable for gaming but that is not the case here one of the other 00:05:19.380 --> 00:05:24.840 big advantages of OLED is lightning fast 00:05:22.500 --> 00:05:30.660 pixel response times and that's still true here Samsung claims 0.1 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:36.180 milliseconds gray to Gray and I can't see any discernible motion blur even 00:05:34.139 --> 00:05:42.360 when whipping the camera around that's freaking awesome also pixel response 00:05:39.539 --> 00:05:45.600 time is only part of the calculation you also need to factor in how much input 00:05:44.100 --> 00:05:50.880 lag there is from the display's electronics and we managed about 16 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:55.919 milliseconds from click to photon with our NVIDIA ldat which is up there with 00:05:53.280 --> 00:06:02.240 the best gaming displays no responsive it's just what are the 00:05:59.400 --> 00:06:05.720 compromises what are the compromises find me one 00:06:05.820 --> 00:06:13.979 honestly like the clarity feels almost strobing clear to me like 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:18.360 as I'm panning around there's just no blur now we should talk about Samsung's 00:06:16.620 --> 00:06:22.919 brightness claims for a little bit here we did manage to hit their claimed 1 000 00:06:20.940 --> 00:06:27.780 nits of peak brightness in a one or two percent window which doesn't sound like 00:06:25.139 --> 00:06:31.020 a lot but in a scene like this would you really have more than one or two percent 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:33.840 of the screen that would actually be at Peak brightness you wouldn't even want 00:06:32.520 --> 00:06:41.280 to look at something that's at a thousand nits across the entire display so it does fall off you see about 800 00:06:38.100 --> 00:06:42.960 nits Peak brightness at 10 and then once 00:06:41.280 --> 00:06:47.400 you make your way all the way to full screen it sits in the neighborhood of 00:06:44.940 --> 00:06:52.500 280 nits which is a lot for this much of your field of 00:06:50.220 --> 00:06:56.039 view it's very respectable compared to other devices out there and when you 00:06:54.419 --> 00:07:02.039 factor in that it's got perfect blacks the perceived dynamic range is extremely 00:06:59.940 --> 00:07:07.280 high man look at this suit all glow and yellow and stuff 00:07:04.139 --> 00:07:09.660 Jake are you ordering one right now 00:07:07.280 --> 00:07:13.020 here get your Shield back where's your Shield does it recharge yeah there we go 00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:16.259 there we go watch this ah it looks so good 00:07:14.940 --> 00:07:22.500 okay sorry I'm supposed to try a different game now oh this game looks so 00:07:18.780 --> 00:07:25.280 good like Forza had that realism kind of 00:07:22.500 --> 00:07:31.880 you know HDR effect but this is like whoa fantasy environment HDR you know 00:07:28.620 --> 00:07:31.880 it's just different it hits different 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:37.740 all right we're in a much darker scene now but this is a really good 00:07:36.060 --> 00:07:43.620 opportunity to talk about one of the big benefits of qdo-led which is much better 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:46.020 representations of red and yellow which 00:07:43.620 --> 00:07:51.180 are traditionally really difficult to handle and you get mad it's going to be 00:07:49.139 --> 00:07:57.060 hard to capture this on camera through your monitor but I I tell you guys the 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:59.340 gold doesn't look yellow like gold tends 00:07:57.060 --> 00:08:04.199 to look on a normal display it looks it looks gold it looks shiny 00:08:02.580 --> 00:08:08.340 is I don't think I've ever seen anything 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:11.240 quite like it and I should shoot it apparently oh 00:08:12.020 --> 00:08:18.720 the thing about HDR is it's not about 00:08:16.020 --> 00:08:22.080 just more FPS right which is what we think about in terms of what makes 00:08:19.979 --> 00:08:29.879 something better for gaming it's about increasing the immersiveness and when a 00:08:25.440 --> 00:08:32.700 game is mastered well in HDR 00:08:29.879 --> 00:08:37.680 it's more realistic looking this looks and feels like I'm standing 00:08:36.659 --> 00:08:41.940 in the room I have actually I have a confession to 00:08:39.659 --> 00:08:47.880 make gamer confession I have never played an re game 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:51.740 disappointed like your eyes need to 00:08:47.880 --> 00:08:54.060 adjust to perceive the difference 00:08:51.740 --> 00:08:58.200 it doesn't let you jump up ladders this is one of those Kane's games 00:08:56.040 --> 00:09:02.760 something to note though is that our RTX 3090 is working pretty freaking hard to 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:06.660 make this look this good we could even benefit from a 3090 TI upgrade get 00:09:05.339 --> 00:09:12.360 subscribed by the way because we do have a review of that coming 00:09:08.339 --> 00:09:16.580 here we go I missed one of them to shoot 00:09:12.360 --> 00:09:16.580 okay are we close yeah 00:09:19.080 --> 00:09:24.839 oh that's really close isn't it 00:09:22.380 --> 00:09:30.959 oh stop I can't get rid of the menu 00:09:27.540 --> 00:09:34.740 so we're in filmmaker mode on the LG TV 00:09:30.959 --> 00:09:37.680 yeah you lose a ton of the detail here 00:09:34.740 --> 00:09:42.360 but it's all there to be clear LG's oleds this is a C1 00:09:40.140 --> 00:09:47.700 great viewing angles compared to anything that we had seen before but 00:09:44.640 --> 00:09:49.980 this is next level it doesn't matter 00:09:47.700 --> 00:09:54.180 where you are in the room now one of the TVs with this coming I 00:09:52.800 --> 00:10:01.680 definitely want to see a TV with a proper filmmaker mode with this display Tech I feel like it could be even better 00:09:59.100 --> 00:10:06.480 okay until now we've talked about some of the reasons the 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:09.240 aw3423dw looks so good but I'm sure you 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:14.820 guys want more depth it starts with the QD OLED panel from Samsung display which 00:10:11.880 --> 00:10:20.580 works very differently from a typical white OLED or W OLED panel by starting 00:10:17.700 --> 00:10:26.100 with blue light instead of white then they filter that blue light with inkjet 00:10:22.680 --> 00:10:28.200 printed Quantum dots hence the QD in QD 00:10:26.100 --> 00:10:31.860 OLED we've got another video explaining this more in depth that you can check 00:10:29.519 --> 00:10:37.440 out here but basically by starting with a high frequency wave like blue across 00:10:34.500 --> 00:10:42.660 the entire panel and then stepping that light down into red green or anything in 00:10:40.260 --> 00:10:48.420 between through Quantum dots you lose very little light in contrast to the 00:10:45.420 --> 00:10:51.180 current W OLED method which filters 00:10:48.420 --> 00:10:55.320 colors rather than converting them and because there's no white subpixel colors 00:10:53.760 --> 00:10:59.040 don't get washed out when you're trying to make them look brighter and because 00:10:57.420 --> 00:11:03.720 we're being more efficient and not lose using light to color filters we're also 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:09.420 not driving the panel as hard so the Alienware qdl lid here does have a 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:11.579 manual and an automatic pixel or panel 00:11:09.420 --> 00:11:16.860 refresher option but the tech has come so far that we're just not anywhere near 00:11:14.100 --> 00:11:20.579 as afraid of burning as we used to be on top of that Dell is so confident in 00:11:18.899 --> 00:11:25.260 Samsung's panels that they are offering a three year warranty that includes 00:11:22.920 --> 00:11:29.160 burn-in now we're still waiting for some official statements from Samsung about 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:33.240 results from Factory testing but confidence is pretty high that you can 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:36.779 finally leave up your UI during a marathon gaming session and not worry 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:41.640 about it sticking around when it's time to watch a movie as for the rest of the monitor you can 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:45.060 put it either on the stand or on a standard base amount and it's got a 00:11:43.380 --> 00:11:49.680 two-tone white and black plastic case with RGB Lighting on the back there's 00:11:47.399 --> 00:11:54.180 lots of i o including this is really cool two USB ports on the bottom making 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:57.720 them way easier to reach than most monitors and there's a navigation nipple 00:11:56.519 --> 00:12:02.880 down there for the on-screen display which has tons of Handy options and is 00:12:00.540 --> 00:12:07.740 really easy to use it's got decent Cable Management through the stand and while 00:12:04.980 --> 00:12:11.820 the inner and outer bezel leaves a little bit to be desired 00:12:09.180 --> 00:12:14.579 they immediately stopped noticing it as soon as there was content up on the 00:12:13.019 --> 00:12:18.779 screen there's also an acceptable level of pen swivel and tilt with the included 00:12:16.500 --> 00:12:24.360 stand meaning that Alienware might have just made almost every other Ultra wide 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:31.320 1440p monitor irrelevant especially given the price it's 12.99 us 00:12:27.300 --> 00:12:34.019 which is a lot of money but right now if 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:38.519 you look for similar specs with an IPS panel rather than a QD OLED 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:44.100 you're not going to find many at significantly cheaper prices this 00:12:40.680 --> 00:12:46.260 34-inch Ultra gear from LG 1250. there's 00:12:44.100 --> 00:12:51.660 a cheaper Ultra gear but it has way worse HDR uses regular IPS instead of 00:12:48.779 --> 00:12:56.399 Nano IPS and it's only g-sync compatible not g-sync ultimate and that one's still 00:12:54.360 --> 00:13:00.720 a thousand dollars so you have to ask yourself is cutie OLED worth spending an 00:12:58.800 --> 00:13:04.380 extra 300 bucks it's not going to be in everyone's budget but we think that if 00:13:03.060 --> 00:13:09.420 you're already in that kind of price range the answer is most definitely yes 00:13:07.079 --> 00:13:12.540 and we're going to have this and these other displays linked down below so you 00:13:10.860 --> 00:13:16.920 can make your own decision later now part of the reason the price is not 00:13:14.760 --> 00:13:21.899 in the several thousand dollars category is the ability to get so many panels of 00:13:19.740 --> 00:13:26.220 this size from one sheet of mother glass that's the name for the giant slabs of 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:32.040 glass that TVs and monitors are cut from we don't know exactly what Samsung 00:13:28.260 --> 00:13:35.100 display is doing but at 2.5 by 2.2 00:13:32.040 --> 00:13:37.860 meters you can fit 18 of this on a 00:13:35.100 --> 00:13:43.079 single sheet instead of trying to cut a few out of the leftover glass from the 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:45.360 larger displays like 75 inches TVs now 00:13:43.079 --> 00:13:50.220 Samsung is reporting some low yields on this Tech as low as 30 percent but since 00:13:48.180 --> 00:13:54.540 so many screens are being cut from a single sheet once small defect doesn't 00:13:52.500 --> 00:13:59.399 necessarily mean that one-sixth of your entire sheet is now garbage and as time 00:13:57.000 --> 00:14:03.480 goes on and the yield rate increases a nice thing about it being so low is that 00:14:01.680 --> 00:14:07.860 there's a lot of room for improvement so the price should come down even further 00:14:05.700 --> 00:14:13.320 speaking of great prices check out our new team red LTT Store pillow CPU peel 00:14:10.920 --> 00:14:17.220 lots of fun so it seems like easy answer if you're shopping for a display good 00:14:14.820 --> 00:14:23.940 product good price All Things Considered so this is what you buy right 00:14:19.380 --> 00:14:25.800 well yes but also no this is the first 00:14:23.940 --> 00:14:30.300 cutie OLED gaming monitor on the market and while it seems great you're always 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:34.200 taking a bit of a risk with new tech there's also no real competition yet 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