Tuesday, May 12th 2020
AOC Achieves #1 Global Gaming Monitor Market Share
AOC, a worldwide leader in monitor display technology, announces its AOC branded gaming monitors, owned by the parent company TPV, achieved #1 global market share among gaming PC monitor companies in 2019. AOC also grew 67% in the United States in 2019, making it the fastest growing monitor brand in North America. (Source: IDC Quarterly PC Monitor Tracker (Gaming), 2019Q4). Gaming monitors are defined by IDC as having a refresh rate of at least 100Hz by IDC.
The AOC G Series is known for being designed from the ground up for gaming, while the AGON Series, introduced in 2017, is a premium brand targeted at hardcore gamers and eSports. AGON monitors are crafted with top of the line materials and deliver competition-level performance to the most serious gamers. Since its debut, the series has received an array of awards including 15 reviews from major publications called AOC monitors "the best" in 2018-2020, including Best Gaming Monitor, Best Value, and a PC Magazine Reader's Choice Award for Most Reliable Brand.
Re-Spawned Warranty
AOC's Re-Spawned Warranty is one of a kind. It covers three years for G-Series monitors and four years for AGON, and there are several other strong benefits to the warranty:
AOC gaming monitors receives hundreds of reviews by top media resulting in many millions of views per year. AOC has a continuous presence in nearly all the prominent gaming shows in North America such as PAX Prime, PAX South, PAX East, SXSW, E3, DreamHack, TwitchCon, CNE, BlizzCon and smaller LANs and tournaments across the nation. AOC has also broken into the film industry featuring prominent product placements in movies such as The Martian, Venom and Godzilla.
G2 Partnership
AOC has a global sponsorship with G2 Esports, one of the leading entertainment assets in eSports, with some of the most competitive players in the world and biggest personalities in gaming.
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The AOC G Series is known for being designed from the ground up for gaming, while the AGON Series, introduced in 2017, is a premium brand targeted at hardcore gamers and eSports. AGON monitors are crafted with top of the line materials and deliver competition-level performance to the most serious gamers. Since its debut, the series has received an array of awards including 15 reviews from major publications called AOC monitors "the best" in 2018-2020, including Best Gaming Monitor, Best Value, and a PC Magazine Reader's Choice Award for Most Reliable Brand.
AOC's Re-Spawned Warranty is one of a kind. It covers three years for G-Series monitors and four years for AGON, and there are several other strong benefits to the warranty:
- Zero Dead Pixel Guarantee: If even one pixel on your AGON or AOC Gaming monitor is dead or "bright," AOC will send you a new monitor.
- Advance Replacement: AOC will send your replacement monitor right away - without waiting to receive your old monitor.
- One-time Accidental Damage Coverage: This warranty covers all accidental damage, and one incident is covered for up to one year.
AOC gaming monitors receives hundreds of reviews by top media resulting in many millions of views per year. AOC has a continuous presence in nearly all the prominent gaming shows in North America such as PAX Prime, PAX South, PAX East, SXSW, E3, DreamHack, TwitchCon, CNE, BlizzCon and smaller LANs and tournaments across the nation. AOC has also broken into the film industry featuring prominent product placements in movies such as The Martian, Venom and Godzilla.
G2 Partnership
AOC has a global sponsorship with G2 Esports, one of the leading entertainment assets in eSports, with some of the most competitive players in the world and biggest personalities in gaming.
18 Comments on AOC Achieves #1 Global Gaming Monitor Market Share
If a hardware is build from ground up, I think it may be something interesting. For a series which is basically just a name to segregate their products, I don't see anything special to call out even if it is "designed from ground up". I don't even thing AOC build these things, even though they may have touched them up and slap their brand on it.
They can roll as much glitter on a VA turd as they like, but it will never overcome the fundamental weaknesses of VA technology for gaming.
VA panels are for television & movie watching, that's all.
So, VA should be perfect for colour critical applications and the best screen is VA calibrated.
When it comes to colour accuracy, IPS is the king of PC display technology.
I then bought an exact same spec monitor from Acer for about the same price and it looked totally fine.
So yeah after that experience i pretty much don't wish to use an AOC monitor again. Though i am using two of their monitor stands currently for my two Dell screens and i like them very much.
"IPS has better color accuracy," yet it reproduces blacks that are 'semi-gray'?
(Even in a well illuminated room, you can easily see the difference between the black color being shown on an IPS next to a VA panel.)
"IPS panels are better for image/video professional use" (yet these professionals often work in 'dark rooms' where blacks look like, again, semi-grays or 'bluish').
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Here is your AOC VA monitor for PROFESSIONAL use:
AOC U3277PWQU 32" 4K UHD 3840x2160 Monitor, VA Panel, 1 Billion + Colors, HDMI/DisplayPort/DVI-D/VGA, HA Stand, Vesa, Speakers, Black/Silver
www.amazon.com/AOC-U3277PWQU-3840x2160-DisplayPort-Speakers/dp/B01N8ZIWM3
eu.aoc.com/en/monitors/u3277pwqu
That can occur with any brand.