Is OLED technology mature enough to replace IPS in the high end of the home monitor market?
OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) technology displays have become the preferred choice for many at almost all price levels of the mobile world and the world of wearable computing, and a popular choice at the higher levels of the home television market. Now, LG marks the desktop gaming monitor market as The next goal for her personal OLED – with a new 27-inch model that will cost you no less than $ 1,000. Before tax.
The 27GR95QE-B model joins the Korean company’s UltraGear family, with a 26.5-inch diagonal display with a resolution of 2,560×1,440 pixels that reaches a refresh rate of up to 240 Hz, alongside a static contrast of 1:1,500,00, a display of shades in depth 10 bit, support for HDR10 content, coverage of 98.5 percent of the shades of the DCI-P3 standard, professional calibration for each panel straight from the factory, and response times of only 0.3 milliseconds – which are intended to be the most significant competitive advantage for OLED screen gaming enthusiasts together with the IPS technologies and -TN are more common.
The screen offers a pair of full-size HDMI connections (probably in version 2.0, although there is a chance that it is also the more recent 2.1 standard), a single DisplayPort 1.4 connection with DSC support, a pair of USB 3.0 connections in the Type-A interface, a headphone connection and an integrated microphone With support for the DTS Headphone:X standard, compatibility with the FreeSync Premium and G-Sync standards for VRR technology, built-in backlight and not bad ergonomic capabilities of tilting on two axes, height adjustment along an axis of 110 millimeters and support for ninety degrees rotation on an axis.
Quite surprisingly, LG does not yet reveal the maximum brightness that the screen is capable of reaching, but there is a reasonable chance that this figure will be higher than that of most other gaming monitors on the market based on LCD technologies, which will also provide verification for a standard such as DisplayHDR True Black 500 or DisplayHDR True Black 600. The 27GR95QE-B will go on presale during the month of December, with a recommended price of $999, as mentioned, before tax – or NIS 3,415 in direct conversion, when the addition of the local VAT value already jumps this amount above the threshold of 4,000 shekels.
It is not certain that the 27GR95QE will be able to become a big hit when IPS screens with a similar size, resolution and refresh rate can be obtained for about half its price (LG itself now offers 27-inch IPS screens with a more modest FullHD resolution and a refresh rate of up to 240 Hz at a starting price of only $200 – or a fifth of the price of the fresh OLED version) – but you have to start somehow, and just as OLED prices have experienced a significant reduction within a few years since their entry into the laptop market, it can be hoped that screens with a fast refresh rate that also enjoy great clarity and contrast will become popular More in their second, third or fourth incarnation.