I recently picked out a 32in QHD monitor to pair with two 27in QHDs for a triple-monitor setup. After using the 27in QHDs for a few years I decided the pixel density was a bit too high for comfort so I decided to upgrade my primary to a 32in.
Both of my QHD screens are IPS monitors with 178 degree viewing angles, so I made sure the 32in monitor I picked was an IPS screen with a 178 (or higher) viewing angle. With a little color correction everything should look the same, but wow, this monitor really looks different.
When looking at the monitor straight-on from ~2 feet away the sides of the screen are dark. The best way I can exaggerate this is if I fill the screen with white and move my head side to side. The “bright” part of the screen stays straight in front of me and the rest of the monitor gets darker as it gets further away.
My other two monitors don’t do this. I can tilt both of them to an extreme angle before they start to appear dark. I don’t understand what is different about this monitor that makes it this way. The darkening is so extreme that, if the screen is filled with solid white, the edges of the screen appear “shimmery” as the angle from my left eye is getting a darker/brighter image than my right eye.
I thought maybe it was the “screen surface finish” but my two 27in monitors are “matte” and “glossy,” the new 32in is “glossy.” All three are IPS displays. All three boast a 178 degree viewing angle. Reviews for the 32in talk about how it looks great and I don’t understand how people can stand this. It feels like an old LCD TV, not a gaming LED monitor.
Does anyone know what attribute I need to look for?
The 32in is the “SAMSUNG 32-Inch Odyssey G50D.”
My two 27in’s are the “ASUS TUF Gaming VG27AQ1A” and the "Acer Nitro VG271U."
I legitimately don’t know how that website has maintained its integrity in 2024…
Or why anyone ever buys a consumer electronic before checking with them.
Like, the closest thing I can think of is tomshardware, but they have that weird sister site where they seem to have offloaded the bullshit too?
Is that a positive or negative remark about the site? I genuinely can’t tell.
Rtings is an excellent resource. I always check their opinion on a panel prior to purchase.
Tomshardware sold out years ago just to be clear, btw. I rarely read anything from them anymore.
Tom’s Hardware was on the lowest tier of tech journalism even in its heyday. You never relied on their benchmarks if there was a better source, and their news was WCCFTech-grade rumor mongering most of the time. The real travesty is that it’s the last one standing out of all the early-2000s hardware review sites, when sites like TechReport (who pioneered things like frame time analysis and power supply load bank testing, and did some of the first test-to-failure analysis of SSDs back when nobody was sure how reliable they actually were) are dead or (worse) zombie husks being used for linkspam SEO.
There’s a “red” site tomshardware, and at least for comparing CPUs and gpus they’re still good
Then there’s “tomsguides” which has a blue color scheme, and seems to just be promos and referral links
I have no idea how connected they really are, but I’ve landed on the wrong one off search pages before by not paying attention
Positive, though worded weird. They’re saying that to this day they still provide unbiased reviews and haven’t stooped to most of the bullshit that the majority of tech review sites do today like selling better reviews for money
Yeah. Sounds like there’s either some lacking context about drama or him somehow being confused that there hasn’t been any drama (why?).
Dang son. Why isn’t this talked about more?