How BAD is the Cheapest HDR Monitor?

[James]

Buy Newsync X250 FG Zero 165 HDR Monitor:

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Buy ASUS ProArt Series PA32UCX HDR Monitor:

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Buy Acer 144hz HDR Monitor:

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Buy Samsung Curved 144Hz HDR Monitor:

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Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group.

 

We compare the cheapest HDR monitor on Amazon against the cheapest one that still has a VESA DisplayHDR 400 rating, a Samsung with DisplayHDR 600 certification, and the $4,500 ASUS PA32UCX with a peak brightness of 1,200nits!

 

 

 

[Marucins]

Why?
It is stupid to compare monitors where one has been calibrated.
Calibration doesn't cost much - even the cheapest can be calibrated and have super improved image parameters.

[just_dave]

3 hours ago, Marucins said:

Why?
It is stupid to compare monitors where one has been calibrated.
Calibration doesn't cost much - even the cheapest can be calibrated and have super improved image parameters.

The Samsung is factory calibrated to 95% DCI-P3 and 125% sRGB. Atleast mine is, I have the CHG70 but they should be very similar overall.

I think the Samsung CHG monitors are cheapest (330 euros for the 27) where HDR looks atleast OK, even they are not optimal since they all have like 8 dimming zones. The HDR400 ones are just a bad meme.

Comparing both of my CHG70s to my OLED, it's no match. For HDR definitely an OLED TV, especially since the latest models can game just as well as an older monitor, have G-Sync and native 120Hz refresh rate.

17 hours ago, James said:

Buy Newsync X250 FG Zero 165 HDR Monitor:

On Amazon (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/BfLSj

On Newegg (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/ciTSYt8

 

Buy ASUS ProArt Series PA32UCX HDR Monitor:

On Amazon (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/TLJO

On Newegg (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/FF0SE

 

Buy Acer 144hz HDR Monitor:

On Amazon (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/oPg7y

On Newegg (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/LczBms

 

Buy Samsung Curved 144Hz HDR Monitor:

On Amazon (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/PCjf

On Newegg (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/4NvYsJE

 

Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group.

 

We compare the cheapest HDR monitor on Amazon against the cheapest one that still has a VESA DisplayHDR 400 rating, a Samsung with DisplayHDR 600 certification, and the $4,500 ASUS PA32UCX with a peak brightness of 1,200nits!

 

 

 

The shot where you look at the Samsung from the top is really dumb. It's VA, so from that angle it will look really bad.

 

[JoostinOnline]

On 4/28/2020 at 4:00 AM, Marucins said:

Why?
It is stupid to compare monitors where one has been calibrated.
Calibration doesn't cost much - even the cheapest can be calibrated and have super improved image parameters.

It's really not, because most people aren't going to touch their monitor settings. People will get whatever comes out of the box.

[IAmAndre]

It would have been interesting to see a non-IPS display in the comparison. I'm curious to know if the result would be any different on a VA panel with HDR support.

[sittingmongoose]

I watched Linus's video from a few weeks ago "How bad are these cheap HDR monitors?" and his testing methodology is really flawed.  He used the PMP version of Plex which does not support HDR.  So all of his Plex based HDR comparisons were in SDR....Plex does not support HDR AT ALL on PC.  It will display HDR videos, but they are tone mapped to SDR before they are displayed.  There is not a single version of Plex on PC that displays HDR.  Not the web version, not PMP, not the new PMP and not the windows store version.

 

Also, to note, even if you plug a pc into a regular HDR tv and see "HDR" tag light up on the tv, its not actually displaying HDR.  It is just first tone mapping, then sending a signal saying that the tone mapped video is HDR to the display.  Which is even worse than displaying straight SDR.

 

So TLDR, the entire time he thought he was reviewing HDR but he wasn't looking at HDR at all.  Except the Shadow of the Tomb Raider parts.