Chief Blur Buster wrote:Great! Please follow up to let us know your impressions.
Now - this is quick but actually they had it right near where I live and I can give impressions after about 2 hours of usage/tweaking.
IT IS A VERY WEIRD screen and I have very mixed feelings but good overall. The build quality is fantastic and so are the looks. The screen is vert nice, stand practical and coating not grainy at all.
What I've noticed that it's a... and that is a stupidest thing to say - but it's a perfect 60hz TN screen. Nice popping colors, no grainy coating. Passes Lagom sharpness, gamma, black squares tests. Only Fails a bit at white checkerboard test. Aside from tests it's completely uniform and black on full black screen image.
Before we get to higher refresh rates:
-Default gamma is gamma2 and it's super wrong. Correct is gamma4 setting which gives perfect 2.2 and it's the ONLY gamma option which does not introduces banding.
-Default Contrast is 70. Any adjustment to it introduces banding in my test images and lagom gradient test. 60 helps with white checkerboard lagom test but ruins gradients.
-Default black stabilizer is 50 out of 100. And this is actually a correct real default setting. 0 crushes all black squares on lagom lcd test and any deviation from 50 introduces gradient banding anyway.
-Full white is uniform and seems really white. not yellow.
-And what surprised me the most is that black screen is completely uniform... like the best I've ever seen. No blb, no clouding. just black. very nice. You can see typical crumbled paper look when You stand above the screen but not when sitting even with eyes above top bezel.
So let me get this straight - Lowered brightness to 10% which is about 120cd.
Default Contrast, default black stabilizer, gamma4, 60HZ and the screen is a dream of 2007 gamer lol... but no changes to it can be made because it ruins the image quality(banding, crush)
I mean seriously - It's an effect no ips could achieve all at once. Deep colors, black blacks, uniform screen without any glow. what is this?!
Now we get to 144hz with all the same settings:
-Gamma lowers. Now it's 1.8/1.9 at the same gamma4 setting.
-Contrast lowers a bit. Essentially black screen is no longer as black but still ok.
-Some backlight bleeding appears near the edges but not much.
And here is the result of ufo test at pure 144. I think it looks very good aside from text. But it is readable in motion. I think my shutter speed was too fast

Now 144hz with strobing - fine as expected

This screen also does strobing at 60hz it seems. I couldn't get a picture but it seems like 3 ufo's overlap.
So is lowering of gamma and contrast a thing to be expected at higher hz?
I am not sure but I might keep the screen just for excellent 60hz experience in movies and slow games and 144hz is good too for some older games. Might be a nice mix of a monitor really.