Chief Blur Buster wrote:From what I read, IPS glow and/or backlight bleed is amplified by edgelights -- this monitor doesn't have an edgelight, with all 384 zones directly behind the panel -- so I'm curious about the uniformity risks associated with local dimming.
We've never had this many zones of local dimming in a consumer monitor before, so this is a good question to get answered!
Forgot to address this, but yes, there is a uniformity risk with FALD: the FALD "grid." Sometimes the invidiual rows of LEDs that make up the backlight grid can be seen as vertical bands, which can cause a sort of DSE (dirty screen effect), especially in lighter content during pans.
Like here on my 2010 FALD set (unfortunately had to go through three before I got one acceptable enough in this respect; the below was my second and worst replacement):
And here, the FALD grid DSE can be seen on the recently released Q9FN, which has 480 zones (timestamped to 4:11):
With these monitors only being 27" and having so many zones, hopefully this will be minimal to negligible, but we'll see.
Blooming artifacts and zone visibility on FALD sets, no matter how good, also become very apparent on off angles, especially extreme ones. But this shouldn't be a problem for these monitors, as they almost always will be viewed straight-on.
Since these are probably going to cost as much or more than I spent for my 55" OLED last year, I'm going to pass for now and see how well this tech in monitors last and/or matures. It will also be interesting to see if there are even going to be enough early adopters of these monitors to justify their existence going forward. Time will tell.
Promising nonetheless.