Sunday, September 19th 2021
AU Optronics Announces 85-inch 4K 240 Hz Display Panel
AU Optronics has recently announced a new 4K 85-inch TV panel with a refresh rate of 240 Hz and support for Variable Refresh Rate technology according to a recent report from DigiTimes. The panel is reported to support HDR however no exact specification was specified and will cover 96% of the DCI-P3 color space. The display also features proprietary technology including an anti-reflective coating and unique surface structure design to reduce glare. We are unsure what type of Variable Refresh Rate technology the panel will support or how much and when it may be available. The panel is not currently listed on the AU Optronics website but has reportedly won the 2021 Ministry of Science and Technology Central Science Park Fine Manufacturer Innovation Product Award.
Sources:
DigiTimes, DisplaySpecifications
30 Comments on AU Optronics Announces 85-inch 4K 240 Hz Display Panel
Will see what the RTX 4090 can do when they come out.
I think I'd prefer an OLED @ 120hz over an LED @ 240hz though, for a TV at least.
This isn't a big TV.
au.pcmag.com/tvs/89507/lg-launches-a-325-inch-direct-view-led-8k-tv
OLED's drawbacks mean that I really can't justify buying one for the way I use my TV (primarily as a giant desktop display) and AUO's VA panels have been on point these last few generations.
I'm going to need a bigger living room though, 65" looks about right, 75" might be about the limit of what makes sense in the room. Plenty of people will have living rooms big enough for this though and 240Hz 4K is perfect for a TV IMO. Ideally it will be VRR with dynamic overdrive but TV manufacturers have generally been abysmal at this since they mostly just use the extra refresh rate for their shitty "smoothmotion" frame interpolation rubbish and don't even include inputs beyond 4K@120Hz, let alone bother with accurate gamma or low input lag....
Still struggling to find the relevance of 4K for gaming altogether, to be honest. It hasn't made a single game better for me to move up in resolution, if I think about it, and that's considering 480p till today. What did boost immersion... aspect ratio. From 4:3 to wide to UW now is definitely an immersion boost, I reckon a supersized display in 16:9 can do the same thing. Better render tech though is always welcome, as it has been, if its readily usable.
Now can we please get more (and preferably good) ~32" 2160p120/144 panels? Please?
The wife agrees.
Realistically, games look at their best as long as they're 1440p and 90fps or better. Sure, some competitive eSports games that rely on milisecond life-or-death latency need 240Hz but none of those gamers use TVs in the first place because of 25ms+ input lag even from the best TVs. For sightseeing games you might want on a TV, even 60Hz isn't terrible but I think most people can tell the difference between 60 and 90fps; It does however take some experience to distinguish between 90fps and 120fps though.
www.avsforum.com/
I think you would be surprised.
www.avsforum.com/threads/official-samsung-4k-hu8550-and-hu9000-thread.1522081/page-108
That thread has 1120 pages.