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end to learn more there are two types of displays those for consuming content and
those for creating it and while they have a lot in common there are some key
ways that they differ with the main one being color gamut you're probably
already aware that a wider color gamut means your display can recreate a
broader range of colors but what exactly are srgb Adobe RGB DCI P3 and why have
creative types been spending tens of thousands of dollars on monitors that
have more of them could this be the game
changer that stops all that turning those expensive beats into dinosaurs and
can we game on it even if we're not really supposed to
yes yes of course we will if you guessed
that the RGB stands for red green blue you're right standard RGB or srgb was
created back in 1996 by HP and Microsoft and it's basically our default color
space used for monitors printers and just about anything you look at online
but srgb being 25 years old at this
point wasn't the most forward-looking standard and we've come a long way think
of the color spectrum like a rainbow and srgb kind of like a small sampling of
those available colors speaking of colors our Northern Lights desk pad
finally back in stock Pickers up to the ltdstore.com well that's where the newer
Big Boy Color spaces come in adding more and more of the human visible spectrum
so a monitor with full coverage of the DCI P3 color space for example can
display a color game at about 25 percent wider than srgb
but that's also where the problems come in because when a piece of content is
created or mastered in one color space and then consumed on a device that
doesn't properly support it you can end up with oversaturated or unnatural
looking colors now the obvious solution would be to just have content creators
use calibrated versions of the same Cheapo monitors that we use at home
but that introduces a whole host of other problems like how could they
adjust a color that their camera captured but their display cannot
represent how can they ensure that their Masterpiece will look right on a higher
Fidelity screen like in the cinema that's why colorists demand Superior
displays which for film work can easily reach 30 or 40 thousand dollars now
obviously for smaller content creators or even small Studios that kind of cost
is Out Of Reach and that is where the 32
EP 950 comes in from LG it features a 4K
OLED panel for blacks that are completely devoid of light remember the
individual pixels can be turned off and it boasts 99 coverage of both the DCI P3
and Adobe RGB color spaces unlike some
of the larger OLED displays out there it's only 31 and a half inches we'll get
back to that missing half inch later and it runs at a refresh rate of 60 hertz
which isn't the best but remember it's not for consuming content it's for
creating it but I still want a game on what is on paper the best display I've
ever looked at this is my first time seeing this game
on such a wide gamut monitor but I don't notice a difference and I shouldn't
because if we're in SDR we're only making use of srdb anyway and many
consume in fact most consumer monitors these days are able to achieve pretty
close to 100 coverage of srgb let's
switch over to HDR though probably want to crank our luminance given that this
is an OLED Monitor and
here it is we can verify if we're in the
right color space yep so we're in BT 2100
HDR and theoretically this is the widest
color gamut I've ever seen on a monitor honestly speaking this is such a kind of
muted scene that I kind of want to try a different part of the game oh wow this
looks pretty man this is still a good
looking game even after it's been a few years now with that said it's it's
gorgeous but to my eye it's not um
you know that one better can we try this side by
side with like just a consumer grade IPS panel that's also been calibrated
you thought of that we have one of course we do now to be
clear this is still a monitor that costs two thousand dollars brand new but
I mean I can't um
boy okay okay this is higher contrast
for sure even though the one on the right is rated for a peak brightness of
a thousand nits I'm definitely retaining more detail on the dark portions of the
scene I'm gonna switch it again
now there's still lots of detail in the dark portion of the scene this is this
is very nice as a sanity check we restarted the game with the LG monitor
completely disconnected just in case there was some kind of tone mapping
problem switching from one to the next and
yep it it still looks great but even if
we can't tell the difference between This and like a two thousand dollar
monitor why don't we go full consumer like 600 monitor like high-end consumer
maybe then we will see it one thing to consider before we do this is that
monitors at this price point don't generally support HDR or at least don't
really support it properly so I'm just going to double check that both of our
displays are in srgb because that's the
color space you'd be in for SDR but I'm going to use the little nipple
navigation that personally I am quite partial to
like this convenient quick color space changer it's nice I need to make sure
that you're in uh srgb mode as well
okay that is a difference honestly speaking I
don't know that I like the OLED picture better
um ploof is this what's supposed to happen you're supposed to get more correct
colors right people tend to like Brighter Images and more saturated
images and I would agree that like the left probably looks closer to like if
this was real life that's what it would probably look like a lot of people actually prefer over saturation will the
game output Adobe RGB do any games support Adobe RGB I don't think so no
okay it'll try its best to sort of tone map to it right it's not going to be
perfect most games are still made with srgb in mind because people don't have
expensive monitors or TVs okay well one of the problems is that we've got the
brightness way down on this and to the human eye higher brightness does tend to
look better at least to a point so let's go ahead and fix that up get them kind
of similar actually that looks yeah and looks very close it's an OLED already
the last thing you want to do is set it to 25 brightness okay this looks a lot
closer now we don't have quite the same kind of
green cast and I would say that it's it's pretty clear this is the the better
looking in srgb mode the difference is
really um not as much as you might want though
obviously this you know Moss or whatever this is is more vibrant in spite of the
fact that they're both in the same color space and
if we wanted to try out a different color space like Adobe RGB we'd probably
see more pop to it yes we do but that's just tone mapping that's not because the
content is actually supposed to look like that
with this one you can obviously tune your saturation or whatever but you
can't actually change the color space that it is representing it's just srgb
adjusted to look worse at as hard as it is to
tell the difference it's absolutely beautiful probably the best looking
monitor I've ever seen and if it wasn't stuck at 60 hertz I mean I can see how
high-end Gamers would be tempted before you ask by the way we did try
overclocking it no dice not even 61
Hertz after speaking with the senior engineer at LG we learned that a higher
refresh rate panel is on the horizon and they're working on variable refresh rate
support but you've got to understand that the method they use to drive a
panel with individual self-illuminated pixels it's not the same as LG's other
gaming displays and getting this stuff tuned takes time color accuracy was the
highest priority and everything else went by the wayside and if Disney
Pixar's take is anything to go by it looks like LG nailed it they have
actually endorsed this display which is very uncommon for Disney who tries to
stay neutral when it comes to just about everything
it's not as good as a thirty thousand dollar Mastery monitor particularly when
it comes to brightness which we'll talk more about later but it is good enough
to get most of the way there so the idea is to have most of the team using the 32
EP 950 for their day-to-day work then have one or maybe two people with
expensive Mastery monitors to double check it and make corrections as they
see fit and this is actually the setup that they used for the film Luca it's
also a much more portable solution to work from home compared to such
professional beasts which has become more and more common in the last couple
of years it is very light at just 5.3
kilograms or just under 12 pounds and it
is really thin compared to some of the other professional displays that we've
looked at in the past by comparison the 1600 nit ASUS pa32ucg takes up a ton of
desk space and it requires a more robust ARM if you want to clamp it to your desk
the 32ep 950 is equipped with two DisplayPort 1.4 connections HDMI 2.0
which I guess makes sense since it can't do 4K 120 hertz anyway a USB hub to
easily connect peripherals with Filter cables USBC with 90 watts of power
delivery if you wanted to connect and charge your laptop with a single cable
and of course a good old-fashioned headphone jack
as for the downsides I'd say Blair is an
issue even with the anti-glare coating that they've put on so you'll want to
make sure that your home office has some blinds for those sunny days and as great
as OLED looks there's always going to be a bit of fear regarding burning
especially when you consider that many professional tools have static on-screen
elements that will be there for probably 90 percent of the display's
lifetime okay well that's where that half inch of screen space that's missing
comes in check this out this second inner bezel here that goes all the way
around the screen it's kind of distracting once you notice it but it
does serve a purpose it actually gives the screen 50 pixels on all sides to
shift the image around helping to reduce the chance of burning
take this with a grain of salt but anecdotally our engineering contact of
LG hasn't seen any of these displays suffering from Burnin and he told us
that as long as you're not blasting a single spot of light or a super bright
light for very extended periods of time it should be fine for years to come
now when testing ours with Cal men's color Checker software we got an average
Delta e out of the box of 1.5 in srgb
and Adobe RGB mode that's not perfect but it's pretty darn good out of the box
and anyone willing to Shell out for this kind of display is going to want to
calibrate themselves before they get to work anyway it unfortunately doesn't
come with a Colorimeter like some other expensive displays so you'll just have
to consider that it's going to cost you another two or three hundred dollars on
top of the price tag though you'll only need one color emitter if you're
planning on buying a handful of these for your studio speaking of the price are two other
issues with this are price and HDR
support the 32 ep950 is Visa certified
HDR true black 400 what that means is
that while it gets plenty dark because you can turn the pixels off It suffers
from the same pitfalls as other olives meaning that it can't get that bright
and it's only really suitable for an optimal HDR viewing experience in a
fairly light controlled environment it just can't achieve the same kind of
crazy high knits Peak brightness that we've seen on recent monitors like the
Odyssey Neo G9 and the pro art pa32ucg
from ASUS with that being said there's only one Higher rating currently for
True black HDR 500 so you're probably
not missing out on much and as for the price there's two ways of
looking at that on the one hand four thousand dollars is a crap ton of money
and I wish it was cheaper because I mean who wouldn't want just perfectly
calibrated colors all the time on everything but on the other hand at a thousand
dollars less than a top tier Pro art it's a bargain if you were shopping in
that price range and you can even save a G by dropping down to the smaller 27
inch version and for the Apple crowd the direct comparison would be something
like the Apple Pro display xdr which costs a thousand dollars more and
doesn't come in a smaller cheaper alternative model it also doesn't have
99 coverage of adobe RGB but what it
does have is the ability to work seamlessly with macOS by contrast the
32ep 950 works with Apple products but
getting it to look just right involves changing ICC profiles and an edid
override the engineer we talked to actually wrote a 16-page document with
instructions on getting it to work so if you do go the Apple route you won't get
quite the same it just works experience but the good news is you can pay
yourself handsomely to fiddle around with the money that you save on monitor
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