Thank you. Finally someone has made a detailed review on this issue. I get that the comparison charts and fancy graphs make more sense for a lot of people, but all I wanted to hear was a personal insight on the eye strain and fringing issue. I think you deserve a lot more views, especially for this video because it's a very debated topic. I immediately clicked on the subscribe button when you started talking about the text color fringing at desktop distance around 3:50
Hey great test! I always found picture in LG panels more pleasant to the eyes. Maybe glossy woled settles the debate and brings peace to the world, but this one is top tier for me
Thank you for this, just returned my MSI QD-OLED. Loved the picture quality but i got a severe headache and eye fatigue after just 30 min, tried changing brightness, contrast etc. and nothing worked. Seems i will give WOLED a chance even though it got a matte display and is more expensive..
Awesome comparison! Thanks as you just saved me a ton of time and headache as I was looking at getting the HP. I'm defiantly sensitive to text fringing, especially colored fringing. The hunt continues as I look for a 4k 27-32" monitor with KVM and PD of around 90W.
exactly what you said Sean, I also noticed same eye issues on my QD-Oled monitor shortly after coming from an asus ips monitor, I've never used optical glasses in my life and my eye sight is still pretty sharp at age 40. and it seems to me the more I use the qd-monitor, my eyes are getting worse I can feel it. It came to a point I thought something was wrong with my health, sour eyes could mean you are getting optical or diabeties and what not. I am seriously considering going back to a good ips panel again
Love your videos! I recently picked up a Alienware AW3225QF. 32 inch qd-oled glossy with a slight curve. Haven't noticed any fringing and I'm going to do my best to not look for it now haha. The slight curve helps a surprising amount to reduce reflections and I like how it pulls the edges of the large 32 inches in just a bit. I do have a monitor light bar and that bleeds onto the top of the screen but it's easy enough to turn off if I want the best colors. My only real complaint is the horrible VRR flicker that is so common to OLED panels. I've been having to turn off G sync and set my refresh rate to 60hz to make silent hill 2 playable and not a flickering mess.
EXC review very honest. My next buy is LG again to substitution for my IPS BLACK ultrafine 32. I recommend buy a calibrite HDR colorimeter to use LG Calibration Studio to see the difference when you use this tool, for better color mode, use 3D LUT format, V4, precise mode, take time but is accurate and work perfect in my Ultrafine
Hey Sean! I do notice my eyes get fatigued more for longer gaming sessions on my Alienware AW2725DF QD-OLED than any of my IPS or VA displays. I don't do any productivity work on my OLEDs due to fear of burn in, but haven't noticed extreme text fringing, even on my 1440p panel - I'd expect 4K to lessen some of that but apparently you can notice it there too. Do you think these OLED monitors get bright enough in SDR at ~250 nits? I don't like to use mine in brighter environments without HDR. Also, how is Auto HDR working for you on these for non-native HDR games? Are you using RTX HDR?
I think they’re totally useable in SDR unless you are in an unusually bright room. Auto HDR works good for me, don’t really mess with RTX HDR. It’s definitely more noticeable in some games, stuff like Dragon Quest XI, Rocket League and Fortnite that are super colorful have noticeably more pop to them, but in games with more subdued color palettes like Skyrim it isn’t as noticeable.
I have the alienware 32 4k and lg 32 4k next to each other right now, I really love the colors of the QD, and the WOLED looks very "dull" is the best way I can describe it. However it does seem like the WOLED is a little easier on my eyes
what's your thought on the new Samsung G80SD? It's a QD-OLED with anti-glare coating so I wonder if the text fringing still persists. I also wonder if the purple tint is still visible on it when in bright environment because I always sit in bright room, whether it's natural or downlights.
I just returned it. It doesn't really have the purple tint, but it looks dirty and hazy despite people saying the contrary about the coating. It's also not very bright for being a top tier monitor. I'm much happier with a 42" OLED tv as a monitor.
Thanks for bringing up the topic of colour fringing. Note, however, that a WOLED display is not ideal at all for text clarity due to the non-standard RGB & W subpixel layout. You'd be better off with a panel that uses RGB only in a standard layout (unlike QD OLED which uses a non-standard layout).
I have myopia and astigmatism I am quite sensitive. I prefer matte screens even in a dark room. I appreciate my media better, it's more relaxing, I will soon take the Samsung Matte G80SD QD-OLED, it's a good compromise
@ I thinking about switching back to Matt because I have a glossy one, but my eyes recently started to hurt more but I don’t know is because I need new prescription
@@chai817 the glossy shines directly in the eyes while the matte gives more the appearance that it is printed on the surface of the screen which is more relaxing. And for the prescription it is ideally necessary to check every year
I can’t stand those unnatural, too vibrant colours of QD-OLED. Samsung loves too saturated stuff on their phones and on their panels and I can’t stand it. Swapped my 21:9 Philips Evnia for 32” 4K LG and I couldn’t be happier. Natural colours, great blacks and absolutely no issues with purple blacks during day, also can play in well lighted room, which is better for my eyes.
Thank you. Finally someone has made a detailed review on this issue. I get that the comparison charts and fancy graphs make more sense for a lot of people, but all I wanted to hear was a personal insight on the eye strain and fringing issue. I think you deserve a lot more views, especially for this video because it's a very debated topic. I immediately clicked on the subscribe button when you started talking about the text color fringing at desktop distance around 3:50
Hey great test! I always found picture in LG panels more pleasant to the eyes. Maybe glossy woled settles the debate and brings peace to the world, but this one is top tier for me
Had exactly the same issue, need to send back my QD OLED and buy WOLED to try
Thank you for this, just returned my MSI QD-OLED. Loved the picture quality but i got a severe headache and eye fatigue after just 30 min, tried changing brightness, contrast etc. and nothing worked. Seems i will give WOLED a chance even though it got a matte display and is more expensive..
Awesome comparison! Thanks as you just saved me a ton of time and headache as I was looking at getting the HP. I'm defiantly sensitive to text fringing, especially colored fringing. The hunt continues as I look for a 4k 27-32" monitor with KVM and PD of around 90W.
Very nice video, crystal clear explanation.
exactly what you said Sean, I also noticed same eye issues on my QD-Oled monitor shortly after coming from an asus ips monitor, I've never used optical glasses in my life and my eye sight is still pretty sharp at age 40. and it seems to me the more I use the qd-monitor, my eyes are getting worse I can feel it. It came to a point I thought something was wrong with my health, sour eyes could mean you are getting optical or diabeties and what not. I am seriously considering going back to a good ips panel again
Love your videos! I recently picked up a Alienware AW3225QF. 32 inch qd-oled glossy with a slight curve. Haven't noticed any fringing and I'm going to do my best to not look for it now haha. The slight curve helps a surprising amount to reduce reflections and I like how it pulls the edges of the large 32 inches in just a bit. I do have a monitor light bar and that bleeds onto the top of the screen but it's easy enough to turn off if I want the best colors.
My only real complaint is the horrible VRR flicker that is so common to OLED panels. I've been having to turn off G sync and set my refresh rate to 60hz to make silent hill 2 playable and not a flickering mess.
EXC review very honest. My next buy is LG again to substitution for my IPS BLACK ultrafine 32. I recommend buy a calibrite HDR colorimeter to use LG Calibration Studio to see the difference when you use this tool, for better color mode, use 3D LUT format, V4, precise mode, take time but is accurate and work perfect in my Ultrafine
Hey Sean! I do notice my eyes get fatigued more for longer gaming sessions on my Alienware AW2725DF QD-OLED than any of my IPS or VA displays. I don't do any productivity work on my OLEDs due to fear of burn in, but haven't noticed extreme text fringing, even on my 1440p panel - I'd expect 4K to lessen some of that but apparently you can notice it there too.
Do you think these OLED monitors get bright enough in SDR at ~250 nits? I don't like to use mine in brighter environments without HDR.
Also, how is Auto HDR working for you on these for non-native HDR games? Are you using RTX HDR?
I think they’re totally useable in SDR unless you are in an unusually bright room. Auto HDR works good for me, don’t really mess with RTX HDR. It’s definitely more noticeable in some games, stuff like Dragon Quest XI, Rocket League and Fortnite that are super colorful have noticeably more pop to them, but in games with more subdued color palettes like Skyrim it isn’t as noticeable.
I have the alienware 32 4k and lg 32 4k next to each other right now, I really love the colors of the QD, and the WOLED looks very "dull" is the best way I can describe it. However it does seem like the WOLED is a little easier on my eyes
Are we watching the same thing? Every time you said the QDOLED is more purple, the WOLED showed clearly more purple 😅
what's your thought on the new Samsung G80SD? It's a QD-OLED with anti-glare coating so I wonder if the text fringing still persists. I also wonder if the purple tint is still visible on it when in bright environment because I always sit in bright room, whether it's natural or downlights.
I just returned it. It doesn't really have the purple tint, but it looks dirty and hazy despite people saying the contrary about the coating. It's also not very bright for being a top tier monitor. I'm much happier with a 42" OLED tv as a monitor.
Thanks for bringing up the topic of colour fringing. Note, however, that a WOLED display is not ideal at all for text clarity due to the non-standard RGB & W subpixel layout. You'd be better off with a panel that uses RGB only in a standard layout (unlike QD OLED which uses a non-standard layout).
I have a Astigmatism which one will be best for my eyes🧐
I have myopia and astigmatism I am quite sensitive. I prefer matte screens even in a dark room. I appreciate my media better, it's more relaxing, I will soon take the Samsung Matte G80SD QD-OLED, it's a good compromise
@ I thinking about switching back to Matt because I have a glossy one, but my eyes recently started to hurt more but I don’t know is because I need new prescription
@@chai817 the glossy shines directly in the eyes while the matte gives more the appearance that it is printed on the surface of the screen which is more relaxing. And for the prescription it is ideally necessary to check every year
Fringing around text looks like crt magenta-green misconvergance.
I can’t stand those unnatural, too vibrant colours of QD-OLED. Samsung loves too saturated stuff on their phones and on their panels and I can’t stand it. Swapped my 21:9 Philips Evnia for 32” 4K LG and I couldn’t be happier. Natural colours, great blacks and absolutely no issues with purple blacks during day, also can play in well lighted room, which is better for my eyes.
You know you can change in the settings I got a tv qd oled from Samsung you need to turn them down that’s what I did
qd wins in anyway. WOLED WINS somewhere else.
Oled gives eye cancer, QD-Oled enhances eye sight. With other words, who cares, both is good
Woled is bluish in white, QdOled is better for white and colours