Thursday, January 10th 2019

CES 2019: Alienware Saves the PC Monitor World With a 55" OLED Gaming Monitor

So, that news title may be slightly too flashy for the actual product, but bear with me here: OLED is such an improvement over current mainstream display technologies that its transition to the PC monitor space is one of the most sought-after unicorns in this market. Alienware, via a partnership with LG (that's almost obvious), will be making this particular unicorn come to reality. The Alienware 55 OLED gaming monitor will feature 4K resolution @ 120 Hz, Variable Refresh Rate support via HDMI 2.1 (FreeSync? G-Sync? - all's still up in the air), DisplayPort 1.4, and 98 percent coverage of the DCI-P3 RGB spectrum with a candy of HDR support thrown in the mix.
If those specs sound familiar, they are; Alienware is naturally using an LG OLED panel for this product, which the specs, all in the same ballpark of LG's announced products, show. Even the diagonal, so incredibly big by PC monitor standards (unless you count NVIDIA's BFGD displays), is the lowest an LG OLED will go. So, the lack of a TV tuner seems to be one of the signs that points towards this television's classification as a gaming monitor. Whether there are more specific, under the hood improvements for a PC-centric monitor of if this is just a repurposed LG OLED television with Alienware's branding and a gaudy light strip on the back of the monitor isn't a question we're equipped to answer at the moment. However, it has several modes to support different game genres that Alienware says will be optimized for those types of games.

Linus Tech Tips actually recorded the Alienware monitor in-action at 4K resolution, so you can check that video (with YouTube compression, sadly) below.

Source: Digital Trends
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53 Comments on CES 2019: Alienware Saves the PC Monitor World With a 55" OLED Gaming Monitor

#51
Valantar
londisteThis, probably:
www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/2018/10/auo-unveils-a-12-1-in-full-color-micro-led-display-with-a-169-dpi-pixel-density.html
Interesting. The weird resolution and small size is definitely telling in terms of manufacturing difficulty, but it's still a decent step forward. Seems it's targeted towards automotive applications, which is understandable (size, desire for deep blacks (don't want an LCD illuminating your car if it's dark outside), and need to avoid burn-in). Wonder what the color gamut and response times are like. From looking at AUOs own news post, the LEDs are 30 microns? 0.03 mm? That is small, wow.
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#52
londiste
www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334167
Using its existing gallium nitride (GaN)-on-silicon monolithic process, Plessey will integrate the CFQD quantum dots into selected regions of blue LED wafers to add red and green light, shrinking the smallest practical pixel size from today’s 30 µm to 4 µm, a reduction of 87%. The process will enable the production of smaller, higher-resolution microLED displays in applications such as AR/VR devices, watches, and mobile devices while enhancing both color rendition and energy efficiency.
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Valantar
londistewww.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334167
Then they just need to invent pick-and-place machines capable of handling .004mm LEDs and at a reasonable speed - or invent another method entirely of mounting them to the PCB. After all, a single 1080p display would need 6220800 of them, and a 4k one 4x that (unless they go PenTile with the subpixel arrangement, in which case these displays will be awful). If they take 1 second each to place, that's 1728 hours, or 72 days. Per panel.
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