Tuesday, June 27th 2023
Dell Launches the UltraSharp U3824DW 38-inch Ultra-wide Curved Monitor
Dell has added a new display to its UltraSharp range and this time around we're looking at a 38-inch ultra-wide display with a resolution of 3840 x 1600 pixels. The display uses an IPS Black panel with a 2000:1 contrast ratio and it covers 100 percent of the sRGB and REC.709 colour gamuts, as well as 98 percent of the DCI-P3 and Display P3 colour gamuts. Sadly it only has a brightness of 300 cd/m² and it's unclear if this is an 8-bit + FRC or a true 10-bit panel, as Dell only mentions support for 1.07 billion colours. It uses a standard WLED backlight, so no fancy miniLED backlight here and as this display is intended for work use, it also only appears to support 60 Hz refresh rate with a response time of 8 ms in normal mode.
Other features include a built-in KVM switch courtesy of a pair of USB-C ports, with the primary supporting USB PD up to 90 W, as well as DP Alt mode, with the second port only supporting USB 3.2 Gen 2 data at up to 10 Gbps. Other inputs include two HDMI 2.1 ports and one DP 1.4, while the outputs consist of five USB 3.2 Gen 2 10 Gbps Type-A ports, two USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 10 Gbps ports, a 2.5 Gbps Ethernet jack and a 3.5 mm audio line out jack. One interesting feature is that the built in Ethernet supports network boot, something that isn't a common feature on monitors and it also has the ability to lock the wired port to one of the two connected computers in KVM mode. The stand supports height,swivel and tilt adjustment. The asking price for the U3824DW is US$1,529.99 and it's available from Dell now.
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Other features include a built-in KVM switch courtesy of a pair of USB-C ports, with the primary supporting USB PD up to 90 W, as well as DP Alt mode, with the second port only supporting USB 3.2 Gen 2 data at up to 10 Gbps. Other inputs include two HDMI 2.1 ports and one DP 1.4, while the outputs consist of five USB 3.2 Gen 2 10 Gbps Type-A ports, two USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 10 Gbps ports, a 2.5 Gbps Ethernet jack and a 3.5 mm audio line out jack. One interesting feature is that the built in Ethernet supports network boot, something that isn't a common feature on monitors and it also has the ability to lock the wired port to one of the two connected computers in KVM mode. The stand supports height,swivel and tilt adjustment. The asking price for the U3824DW is US$1,529.99 and it's available from Dell now.
22 Comments on Dell Launches the UltraSharp U3824DW 38-inch Ultra-wide Curved Monitor
Dell is arrogant with UltraSharp price proposition for such a underwhelming display specs. Let it rot on shelves.
Though I agree that among the 38 inch models, this one has quite a bit too much premium.
I'm a fan of VA, given the cost and burn-in risk of long-term OLED ownership as a desktop monitor, but 90% of the VA panels on the market have garbage dark-transition overdrive. I can count on my fingers the number of models that have decent, smear-free blacks.
IPS would be the better technology if it wasn't so catastropically terrible at black levels in general, so a 2000:1 contrast ratio and low peak brightness implies that this is an IPS that can actually display black rather than a washed-out grey. IPS backlight uniformity is also quite hard to get right and this is made doubly obvious by the backlight bleed on a dark screen - so I'd like to see a review of this monitor somewhere just to see if it's really 2000:1 and also how bad the uniformity is.
I can just say that IPS black is no joke. As an example just after i got the screen it was in a dark room, running KDE with a dark theme. In KDE the taskbar button turn orange for event notification.
I walked into the room and wondered why all the walls are orange, and when i looked at the screen i first thought there had been a shortcut, and something had burnt a glowing hole in the bottom of the screen. It was just the taskbar notification.
www.dell.com/en-us/shop/alienware-38-curved-gaming-monitor-aw3821dw/apd/210-axvg/monitors-monitor-accessories
This product is like one of those plastic Alienware prebuilds that was demolished in a review by Steve from Gamers Nexus for absurd propriatery motherboard that cannot be changed and i9 CPU that was chocking in its own cooler.
Dell needs a serious rethink of staffing responsible for design of this line of monitors and other products. It's nonsense.I hope they manufature the lowest possible volume as they will never sell any higher volume for this price. On which planet their marketing and price setting team lives?
www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/dell/u2723qe
www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/dell/u3223qe
Rtings even has them going slightly above. Problem is the price given how they're only in business monitors at the moment.