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end to learn more there are two types of displays those for consuming content and

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those for creating it and while they have a lot in common there are some key

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ways that they differ with the main one being color gamut you're probably

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already aware that a wider color gamut means your display can recreate a

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broader range of colors but what exactly are srgb Adobe RGB DCI P3 and why have

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creative types been spending tens of thousands of dollars on monitors that

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have more of them could this be the game

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changer that stops all that turning those expensive beats into dinosaurs and

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can we game on it even if we're not really supposed to

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yes yes of course we will if you guessed

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that the RGB stands for red green blue you're right standard RGB or srgb was

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created back in 1996 by HP and Microsoft and it's basically our default color

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space used for monitors printers and just about anything you look at online

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but srgb being 25 years old at this

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point wasn't the most forward-looking standard and we've come a long way think

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of the color spectrum like a rainbow and srgb kind of like a small sampling of

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those available colors speaking of colors our Northern Lights desk pad

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finally back in stock Pickers up to the ltdstore.com well that's where the newer

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Big Boy Color spaces come in adding more and more of the human visible spectrum

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so a monitor with full coverage of the DCI P3 color space for example can

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display a color game at about 25 percent wider than srgb

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but that's also where the problems come in because when a piece of content is

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created or mastered in one color space and then consumed on a device that

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doesn't properly support it you can end up with oversaturated or unnatural

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looking colors now the obvious solution would be to just have content creators

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use calibrated versions of the same Cheapo monitors that we use at home

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but that introduces a whole host of other problems like how could they

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adjust a color that their camera captured but their display cannot

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represent how can they ensure that their Masterpiece will look right on a higher

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Fidelity screen like in the cinema that's why colorists demand Superior

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displays which for film work can easily reach 30 or 40 thousand dollars now

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obviously for smaller content creators or even small Studios that kind of cost

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is Out Of Reach and that is where the 32

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EP 950 comes in from LG it features a 4K

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OLED panel for blacks that are completely devoid of light remember the

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individual pixels can be turned off and it boasts 99 coverage of both the DCI P3

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and Adobe RGB color spaces unlike some

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of the larger OLED displays out there it's only 31 and a half inches we'll get

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back to that missing half inch later and it runs at a refresh rate of 60 hertz

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which isn't the best but remember it's not for consuming content it's for

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creating it but I still want a game on what is on paper the best display I've

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ever looked at this is my first time seeing this game

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on such a wide gamut monitor but I don't notice a difference and I shouldn't

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because if we're in SDR we're only making use of srdb anyway and many

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consume in fact most consumer monitors these days are able to achieve pretty

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close to 100 coverage of srgb let's

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switch over to HDR though probably want to crank our luminance given that this

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is an OLED Monitor and

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here it is we can verify if we're in the

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right color space yep so we're in BT 2100

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HDR and theoretically this is the widest

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color gamut I've ever seen on a monitor honestly speaking this is such a kind of

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muted scene that I kind of want to try a different part of the game oh wow this

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looks pretty man this is still a good

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looking game even after it's been a few years now with that said it's it's

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gorgeous but to my eye it's not um

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you know that one better can we try this side by

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side with like just a consumer grade IPS panel that's also been calibrated

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you thought of that we have one of course we do now to be

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clear this is still a monitor that costs two thousand dollars brand new but

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I mean I can't um

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boy okay okay this is higher contrast

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for sure even though the one on the right is rated for a peak brightness of

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a thousand nits I'm definitely retaining more detail on the dark portions of the

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scene I'm gonna switch it again

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now there's still lots of detail in the dark portion of the scene this is this

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is very nice as a sanity check we restarted the game with the LG monitor

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completely disconnected just in case there was some kind of tone mapping

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problem switching from one to the next and

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yep it it still looks great but even if

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we can't tell the difference between This and like a two thousand dollar

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monitor why don't we go full consumer like 600 monitor like high-end consumer

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maybe then we will see it one thing to consider before we do this is that

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monitors at this price point don't generally support HDR or at least don't

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really support it properly so I'm just going to double check that both of our

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displays are in srgb because that's the

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color space you'd be in for SDR but I'm going to use the little nipple

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navigation that personally I am quite partial to

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like this convenient quick color space changer it's nice I need to make sure

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that you're in uh srgb mode as well

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okay that is a difference honestly speaking I

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don't know that I like the OLED picture better

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um ploof is this what's supposed to happen you're supposed to get more correct

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colors right people tend to like Brighter Images and more saturated

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images and I would agree that like the left probably looks closer to like if

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this was real life that's what it would probably look like a lot of people actually prefer over saturation will the

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game output Adobe RGB do any games support Adobe RGB I don't think so no

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okay it'll try its best to sort of tone map to it right it's not going to be

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perfect most games are still made with srgb in mind because people don't have

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expensive monitors or TVs okay well one of the problems is that we've got the

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brightness way down on this and to the human eye higher brightness does tend to

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look better at least to a point so let's go ahead and fix that up get them kind

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of similar actually that looks yeah and looks very close it's an OLED already

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the last thing you want to do is set it to 25 brightness okay this looks a lot

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closer now we don't have quite the same kind of

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green cast and I would say that it's it's pretty clear this is the the better

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looking in srgb mode the difference is

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really um not as much as you might want though

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obviously this you know Moss or whatever this is is more vibrant in spite of the

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fact that they're both in the same color space and

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if we wanted to try out a different color space like Adobe RGB we'd probably

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see more pop to it yes we do but that's just tone mapping that's not because the

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content is actually supposed to look like that

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with this one you can obviously tune your saturation or whatever but you

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can't actually change the color space that it is representing it's just srgb

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adjusted to look worse at as hard as it is to

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tell the difference it's absolutely beautiful probably the best looking

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monitor I've ever seen and if it wasn't stuck at 60 hertz I mean I can see how

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high-end Gamers would be tempted before you ask by the way we did try

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overclocking it no dice not even 61

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Hertz after speaking with the senior engineer at LG we learned that a higher

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refresh rate panel is on the horizon and they're working on variable refresh rate

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support but you've got to understand that the method they use to drive a

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panel with individual self-illuminated pixels it's not the same as LG's other

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gaming displays and getting this stuff tuned takes time color accuracy was the

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highest priority and everything else went by the wayside and if Disney

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Pixar's take is anything to go by it looks like LG nailed it they have

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actually endorsed this display which is very uncommon for Disney who tries to

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stay neutral when it comes to just about everything

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it's not as good as a thirty thousand dollar Mastery monitor particularly when

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it comes to brightness which we'll talk more about later but it is good enough

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to get most of the way there so the idea is to have most of the team using the 32

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EP 950 for their day-to-day work then have one or maybe two people with

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expensive Mastery monitors to double check it and make corrections as they

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see fit and this is actually the setup that they used for the film Luca it's

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also a much more portable solution to work from home compared to such

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professional beasts which has become more and more common in the last couple

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of years it is very light at just 5.3

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kilograms or just under 12 pounds and it

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is really thin compared to some of the other professional displays that we've

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looked at in the past by comparison the 1600 nit ASUS pa32ucg takes up a ton of

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desk space and it requires a more robust ARM if you want to clamp it to your desk

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the 32ep 950 is equipped with two DisplayPort 1.4 connections HDMI 2.0

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which I guess makes sense since it can't do 4K 120 hertz anyway a USB hub to

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easily connect peripherals with Filter cables USBC with 90 watts of power

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delivery if you wanted to connect and charge your laptop with a single cable

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and of course a good old-fashioned headphone jack

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as for the downsides I'd say Blair is an

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issue even with the anti-glare coating that they've put on so you'll want to

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make sure that your home office has some blinds for those sunny days and as great

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as OLED looks there's always going to be a bit of fear regarding burning

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especially when you consider that many professional tools have static on-screen

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elements that will be there for probably 90 percent of the display's

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lifetime okay well that's where that half inch of screen space that's missing

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comes in check this out this second inner bezel here that goes all the way

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around the screen it's kind of distracting once you notice it but it

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does serve a purpose it actually gives the screen 50 pixels on all sides to

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shift the image around helping to reduce the chance of burning

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take this with a grain of salt but anecdotally our engineering contact of

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LG hasn't seen any of these displays suffering from Burnin and he told us

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that as long as you're not blasting a single spot of light or a super bright

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light for very extended periods of time it should be fine for years to come

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now when testing ours with Cal men's color Checker software we got an average

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and Adobe RGB mode that's not perfect but it's pretty darn good out of the box

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and anyone willing to Shell out for this kind of display is going to want to

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calibrate themselves before they get to work anyway it unfortunately doesn't

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come with a Colorimeter like some other expensive displays so you'll just have

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to consider that it's going to cost you another two or three hundred dollars on

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top of the price tag though you'll only need one color emitter if you're

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planning on buying a handful of these for your studio speaking of the price are two other

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issues with this are price and HDR

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support the 32 ep950 is Visa certified

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HDR true black 400 what that means is

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that while it gets plenty dark because you can turn the pixels off It suffers

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from the same pitfalls as other olives meaning that it can't get that bright

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and it's only really suitable for an optimal HDR viewing experience in a

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fairly light controlled environment it just can't achieve the same kind of

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crazy high knits Peak brightness that we've seen on recent monitors like the

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Odyssey Neo G9 and the pro art pa32ucg

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from ASUS with that being said there's only one Higher rating currently for

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True black HDR 500 so you're probably

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not missing out on much and as for the price there's two ways of

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looking at that on the one hand four thousand dollars is a crap ton of money

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and I wish it was cheaper because I mean who wouldn't want just perfectly

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calibrated colors all the time on everything but on the other hand at a thousand

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dollars less than a top tier Pro art it's a bargain if you were shopping in

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that price range and you can even save a G by dropping down to the smaller 27

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inch version and for the Apple crowd the direct comparison would be something

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like the Apple Pro display xdr which costs a thousand dollars more and

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doesn't come in a smaller cheaper alternative model it also doesn't have

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99 coverage of adobe RGB but what it

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does have is the ability to work seamlessly with macOS by contrast the

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32ep 950 works with Apple products but

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getting it to look just right involves changing ICC profiles and an edid

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override the engineer we talked to actually wrote a 16-page document with

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instructions on getting it to work so if you do go the Apple route you won't get

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quite the same it just works experience but the good news is you can pay

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a little bit of halos okay there's no perfect monitor yet