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."
Samsung. The issue is you bought a Samsung.
Keep it or replace it. It doesn’t matter. You’ll be replacing it in 1-3 year anyway. How do I know this? Because you bought a Samsung….
I support about 1200 users with about 8 other people. There is not tight control of the purchasing, so while most users have HP monitors, there is a hodgepodge of other monitors floating around.
Occasionally a monitor fails. With everything running on DC and using LED backlights, they last much longer. When supplies ran extra thin, about 20 Samsung monitors were purchased 4 years ago. They work, but have a terrible habit of losing connection with the desktop. Samsung will replace/repair them, but they still have the bad habit of losing the connection to the desktop.
Same systems work just fine with any other brand monitor, down to 20 year old displays. I’m convinced that there is a bug in the monitor that doesn’t detect video output properly.
I can’t speak for 20 year old displays. If anything displays 20 years ago were built to last, even from Samsung.
However now a days Samsung are designed to fail. And when they fail they are designed to fail in a way where it’s expensive to fix.
For example most displays fail due to the LED strips going bad and therefore the back lighting stops working. This is easy to fix.
Samsung on the other hand designs their displays so that the panel is the part that goes bad after 3 years. Fixing the panel is pointless because it costs just as much to buy a new display as it does to replace the panel.
Samsung set up their entire operation to milk money from you. Unfortunately it isn’t just their displays. Literally everything they sell is shit quality designed to fail in 3 years.
Not saying other manufacturers are much better but Samsung is THE WORST.
I’ll keep this in mind if I replace. What brand do you recommend? Acer? Asus?
The only thing they have going for them is their phones, and I’m planning on jumping ship when I can no longer update my current one. I would keep it longer, but flashing a different ROM on there trips Knox, which is somewhat patched with other hacks. Last I read was that these other hacks are becoming unreliable.