240Hz, 360Hz+ (480-540-750-1000Hz) displays. Motion clarity
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My understanding is that because of how OLED is manufactured, with the organic materials deposited on the substrate, there’s no way to completely avoid banding and other forms of colour non-uniformity. It’s especially prevalent at near black and at low brightness in my experience, and QD deposition adds to the issues.
So it’s a combination of OLED technology and content mastering (video and games alike).
So it’s a combination of OLED technology and content mastering (video and games alike).
What kind of content? In games? Lots of streaming video probably just has banding because of low bitrates for the resolution. I've seen banding in netflix near black and shadows on my tv. I don't think it should be an issue in games on an oled monitor.
Also, is this vertical banding? Or is it that kind of compression banding you get from video?
Like this?
Edit: I'm reading more and I guess this really is an issue on oleds.
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It’s gradient banding and also shows up in real-time rendered scenes. It’s not there when I look at test images though so I’m assuming it’s a content problem.
The other thing I noticed is that motion is a lot less smooth than my old IPS in some first person games. Panning the camera has this strobing effect. I knew the fast pixel response time would make individual frames easier to see but I expected the 240hz refresh rate to compensate for that. Some camera blur may actually be desirable in this case. Or maybe it’s better at 360/480 hz.
Motion clarity is definitely improved though. Target acquisition in first person shooters is a lot easier and I’m far from being a twitch gamer.
The other thing I noticed is that motion is a lot less smooth than my old IPS in some first person games. Panning the camera has this strobing effect. I knew the fast pixel response time would make individual frames easier to see but I expected the 240hz refresh rate to compensate for that. Some camera blur may actually be desirable in this case. Or maybe it’s better at 360/480 hz.
Motion clarity is definitely improved though. Target acquisition in first person shooters is a lot easier and I’m far from being a twitch gamer.
Does turning on motion blur in games alleviate this? Also does this strobing happen when gsync/VRR is turned off running fixed 240Hz?
Haven’t tried any games with camera blur yet, will look have to see if I have any. But yeah this is what camera motion blur was invented for. It’s definitely not VRR flicker which happens whether or not you move the camera.
In the Nvidia app there’s lots of banding in the marketing slides. This is in sRGB emulation mode. Does it look different for you guys?
In the Nvidia app there’s lots of banding in the marketing slides. This is in sRGB emulation mode. Does it look different for you guys?
It looks like that on my q27g3xmn. I took this from a slightly elevated angle where it is more obvious. From normal height I can still see it but it's not as noticeable. LCD stuff. This is in HDR mode. If anything I'd say yours has less banding.
BTW on this monitor I notice more flaws in content than I used to. When the black levels go to zero, the banding has nowhere to hide.
P.P.S. That is not my face reflected in the Modern Warefare III logo. That had me tripping for a minute but the image looks like that.
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