Thursday, January 6th 2022
Alienware Demos 34-inch QD-OLED Monitor at CES
Although Samsung apparently wasn't ready to show off its rumoured 34-inch QD-OLED monitor at CES, Alienware stepped up and demonstrated a fully working model that is said to be launching as soon as the 29th of March in the US market. The Alienware 34 Curved QD-LED Gaming Monitor or the AW3423DW as it's also known as, uses a curved QD-OLED panel from Samsung, with QD standing for Quantum Dot, a technology used to boost colours in various types of display panels.
The Alienware 34 Curved QD-LED Gaming Monitor offers a resolution of 3440x1440, which gives it an aspect ratio of 21:9. It's said to feature Nvidia's G-Sync Ultimate, with refresh rates of up to 175 Hz over DP and 100 Hz over HDMI. It has a typical brightness of only 250 cd/m², but as this is an HDR capable display, this can go as high as 1000 cd/m² in HDR mode. The monitor sports one DisplayPort 1.4, two HDMI 2.0 ports and three USB 3.2 ports at 5 Gbps, as well as a 3.5 mm headphone jack and a line-out jack. No word on pricing as yet, but it would be silly to presume this will be a cheap monitor.
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The Alienware 34 Curved QD-LED Gaming Monitor offers a resolution of 3440x1440, which gives it an aspect ratio of 21:9. It's said to feature Nvidia's G-Sync Ultimate, with refresh rates of up to 175 Hz over DP and 100 Hz over HDMI. It has a typical brightness of only 250 cd/m², but as this is an HDR capable display, this can go as high as 1000 cd/m² in HDR mode. The monitor sports one DisplayPort 1.4, two HDMI 2.0 ports and three USB 3.2 ports at 5 Gbps, as well as a 3.5 mm headphone jack and a line-out jack. No word on pricing as yet, but it would be silly to presume this will be a cheap monitor.
67 Comments on Alienware Demos 34-inch QD-OLED Monitor at CES
Now make it flat, 4k and 32 inch 120Hz, then take my money
Only HDR 400, curvature 1800R is too high, typical brightness 250cd/m2 is too low.
I keep my fingers crossed for true next gen OLED 34" or 38" monitor, 1000R curvature, at least 400cd/m2 typical brightness and G-SYNC Ultimate and then take my money :)
displayhdr.org/#tab-true-black-400
Vesa 400 True Black... 1000cd/m2 peak... 250cd/m2 static.
I'm not sure what trickery is deployed here, but I'm skeptical.That's the thing. Why doesn't it conform to a much better HDR 'standard' (as laughable as those VESA ratings are) then? The 1000cd/m2 peak is pure marketing, it has no quantifiable use apparently for VESA. It can't conform to 'True Black' when producing higher peak brightness than 400cd/m2, could be another conclusion... which echoes my thoughts on how these QD-OLED panels work under the hood and why the contrast also isn't infinite like a true OLED.
The screen used in the comparison had a higher rated brightness.
Seeing is believing ;) I'll wait for something that looks like a real review and with actual measurements.
Linus just lost a few more points.
- Genuine <1ms pixel response in all scenarios
- Black frame insertion/strobing image that isn't dim so that you get vivid clear focus on moving objects without sample-and-hold blur
- Black levels are actually black
- No backlight bleed or off-angle gamma/colour/contrast shifts
- Usable HDR
- VRR
It's a shame that we're not quite there yet and even this imperfect Alienware monitor is probably going to cost 5-10x more than a decent IPS/VA gaming monitor. I'm going to guess $2500.LG however has already proven themselves as the OLED leader, and they listen to the community and provide frequent OTA updates. I will be doing LG C2 42" OLED. and it will prob be half the price of this and have a better gaming experience/picture to boot.
I can genuinely say its an advantage there. I've also sat in front of larger curved TV's but that was utter crap.
But i guess milking gamers is the easieast thing to do.
Thing is, for gaming you don't need perfect geometry to make it work, you need immersion, and ever since we've been placing monitors side-by-side to get more of that, we've had bezels in the way. But even then, people would set it up like this:
So I'm not so sure you've given your stance sufficient thought ;) This isn't new and it even works for productivity. Note how the guy's in some office doing office things.
I prefer 32" and above to be curved displays. Even if you don't care about the curve it has a positive effect on viewing angles, leading to better colour and contrast uniformity on VA, as well as mitigating corner glow and fade out at the far edges on IPS displays.
Afterwards.... No... just N.O....