MSIfanboy wrote: ↑22 Jul 2023, 03:49some of the rtings tests you dont know how they tested, like did they use overdrive in BFI test, what brightness/contrast/gamma did they use in some of the monitor brightness tests, and even some of there info is wrong, listing 24.5 inch panels as 25 inch (diagonal) and wrong PPI on some monitors, stuff like that
One chicken and egg problem is that via affiliate-income sometimes takes 3-5 years to pay for the staff time spent reviewing a display, especially one that they have to purchase themselves. It depends on the website. For a long time, it was below minimum-Walmart hourly rate, when all those hours are averaged out. It still is for a log of bloggers when they do it themselves.jorimt wrote: ↑22 Jul 2023, 12:01Yes, but again, better than nothing; just a few years ago, TFTCentral was the only in-depth (English language) monitor reviewer to speak of, and their reviews for the newest monitors were (and are) very infrequent.
Consistently buying and reviewing all the newest gaming monitors and trying to achieve even close to what could be considered a cohesive test bench across different models is no simple task, so there are bound to be inconsistencies here and there. Just something to keep in mind while shopping and comparing.
Also, pandemic has slowed down display testing and it is taking a long time to recover and upgrade tests. RTINGS suffered greatly during the pandemic when their display testing warehouse was closed for a while during lockdowns.
So they don't always have the time nor afford to do all the comprehensive tests that all users demand, sadly.
I am still surprised how much staff RTINGS manages to be able to hire, and the number of tests they are able to do, but inventing new additional display tests (that can takes sometimes hours per monitor) can be quite problematic for staff time. They're the gorilla of monitor reviewers, compared to other websites.
During the pandemic, Blur Busters did some drastic cost cutting and now can successfully easily operate at half income as year 2019. We are now re-expanding income, but, it is taking time, with tons of things delayed/postponed/cancelled (e.g. my Blur Busters Display Tester, supposed to have been released by now, which I still use internally for a lot of tasks for contracts)