Thursday, October 3rd 2019
EIZO Introduces Limited Edition Foris Nova Dsplay: 21" 4K OLED, HDR, and 60Hz
EIZO today announced a limited edition monitor that's sure to attract attention: likely positive due to its feature-set, likely negative due to its small diagonal. The Foris Nova is built fully in aluminium and packs an impressive amount of features for the admittedly small diagonal: the 21" display is a 4K OLED one with a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, 330 nits maximum brightness and 1.07 billion colors. That small diagonal does have its benefits though: the pixel density is a very impressive (for desktop monitors) 204 pixels per inch. The 60 Hz refresh rate is nothing to glow at, but the 0.4 ms response time surely point to an amazing 60 Hz gaming experience.
There is HDR certification in the form of HDR10 and the royalty-free Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG), and connectivity is taken care of by 2x HDMI ports that support Deep Color and the HDCP 2.2 and 1.4 copy protection protocols. There are two 1 W speakers, VESA support,1x headphone jack and 1x line-out mini jack. The production is limited to only 500 units, and the Foris Nova will be available from November 1st in the U.S., Europe, China and Japan. No word on pricing - EIZO is asking users to contact them directly for orders and pricing. That serves as a warning, if any more were needed: this won't come cheap.
There is HDR certification in the form of HDR10 and the royalty-free Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG), and connectivity is taken care of by 2x HDMI ports that support Deep Color and the HDCP 2.2 and 1.4 copy protection protocols. There are two 1 W speakers, VESA support,1x headphone jack and 1x line-out mini jack. The production is limited to only 500 units, and the Foris Nova will be available from November 1st in the U.S., Europe, China and Japan. No word on pricing - EIZO is asking users to contact them directly for orders and pricing. That serves as a warning, if any more were needed: this won't come cheap.
32 Comments on EIZO Introduces Limited Edition Foris Nova Dsplay: 21" 4K OLED, HDR, and 60Hz
Definitely not watching porn though
On a more serious note... does this mean we'll be seeing more OLED monitors? I mean, 21 inch. Yay, not 55!. Getting there!
And he IS obviously watching porn... Can anybody see where his other hand is?!
It's just fun to pick the render apart. Like how his legs are crossed, but his knees don't really seem to line up properly. Look at the seat cushion on the left. Look how HUGE his hand is compared to his face.
whats the point if its OLED or QLED or IPS if its damn thats small...
Point of OLED is the same as always - black blacks, infinite contrast, fast response times and excellent color reproduction.
Just look at phones/tabletrs: almost everyone is switching to OLED and even on the low-end some phones already have AMOLED screens which just a year ago would cost more than the device itself. Even OLED screens for past/current devices more than halved in price since last year, which made my job a lot easier: I don't have to explain to a customer why a replacement screen for his cheap-ass Galaxy J6 costs more than his entire phone. I expect the same happening with desktop and laptop displays as well, hence we see more and more device announcements.Not all games. For example in some older titles I still have to crank it up due to shimmer in the background. It's very noticeable in games like TF2, Borderlands, Rage, or any other cell-shaded game. Also Prey and Fallout 4 has some of it.
We gave the designers 2 of the newer 32" 4K Sammy's plus their older 2K screens, then asked everyone to keep track of the time they spent zooming in vs. not, and the results were really an eye opener....
This is a company with a technical staff of over 300 people, so that 30% improvement in productivity is huge and has allowed us to hire an additional 30 designers/CAD/CAM folks with essentially no increase in labor costs, other than the money for the additional 100 monitors (which we got at a substantial bulk-buy discount)
As for this display, I like the overall design, but damned them huge bezels....theys gotta go away, like, yesterday..... hell even the few remaining 2 year old 24" Dells that our admin team uses have near-zero bezels... WTH ???
good grief:kookoo:
Furthermore, just look where we are with OLED monitors. The small sizes have been around for years and always at extortionate cost. Sony have a 60Hz 30" OLED monitor retailing at £35K. It's clear no progress is being made in bringing such products to an affordable level, and no interest from the manufacturers in doing so... they aren't even talking about it. Instead, as mentioned, you have Alienware releasing their obscenely priced 55" despite the LG C9 offering a better spec... albeit minus DP 1.4 connectivity, but at a third of the price. Plus once GPUs have HDMI 2.1, this becomes irrelevant.
As I mentioned, If LG's 48" OLED TV sells well next year, they may consider smaller sizes, but even that's years away, if it ever happens.
OLED might crop up periodically as a halo showboat product, possibly at a larger size, but certainly not at anything remotely affordable. Why would any manufacturer do this? Given how costly LCD monitors have become, they'd cannibalize all LCD sales by offering a 32" high refresh OLED at those prices... and that makes zero business sense. It's far more realistic (albeit a long shot) that they might release a £10K OLED in limited numbers (similar to this Foris), knowing that there are consumers out there who will pay any price for one... but it will never be a mass market affordable product.
21" is huge in comparison.No DP ports, makes me sad.