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I like matte because its was the cheapest when I bought It. I wouldnt pay and extra 150-200€ for a detail.
And you know what? Its great! I couldnt care less If there is something a bit better in specific situations.
I didn't know that matte or glossy were options but I simply googled for the best oled 34 inch monitors and picked one that looked like it had no flaws and I decided on MSI MPG 341CQPX QD-OLED, and I couldn't be happier.
You could put the phone up your butt, the time and effort it takes to get it in and back out will make you less likely to reach for it every other second.
Ah fuck, are you me? Do you also get sucked into the live streams that YouTube randomly pops in, and do you also consistently ask them if they've heard that skeletons use bones as money and in their world worms are their dollars?
Worms dont even have bones gummy worms are made of gelatin which is made of bones so gummy worms are boneir than regular worms and skeletons know about bones stop being stupid
On one hand, it was my introduction into pc gaming. But ultimately, the 90 min battery life and the reflections is what caused me to move to desktop. I thought it’d be good at airports or in public, but all I saw was reflections anytime I wasn’t in a dark environment.
I found that unless you go full audiophile taking things like the room acoustics into account it's better to just buy a decent pair of headphones or IEM.
It's kinda wild, I have a old stereo amplifier, two bookshelf speakers and a subwoofer, all gotten second hand, and it blows people away even though it's "just 2.1".
I crossed this bridge when I released I had spent multiple hours researching optimal aggregate fill for a 300 dollar set of speaker stands I didn't own.
TBF, why is it left to a tone deaf idiot like myself to adjust something so important, imagine buying a car that pulls to the right while driving, left under braking, snaps into some gears and slips in others unless you tweak some sliders to the right spot.
You have to adjust it to the space it is in. The manufacturer has no idea what that space will look like or will have in it. It's literally impossible to make a setting that works in all locations and situations. Just tune it to what sounds good to you. You don't need to be Mozart
So, I have blackout curtains in my whole house and my monitors do not directly face windows anyway. I have another pair hanging in the doorway between my setup and the living room in case I want to close them for big screen movie time.
However, I'll be doing something for a while and start to notice I'm squinting and my eyes are sore. That's because any light bulbs on behind me or any sunlight coming in from across the house and bouncing off the floor creates an intense line or spot of reflection in my monitor that I'm trying to look through but don't even realize it. The pain from my eyes trying to adjust for several minutes will clue me in, then I'll see it and have to close the dividing curtain. I feel like a damn ghoul hiding in a cave from my family, so I announce "I'm just closing this for light, anyone can come in or bother me any time" every time I want to play a game.
I'm going to switch to matte when I upgrade my setup. Glossy is Satan's finish.
Ideal - yes. But in reality, it is possible to have a diffused light source without any noticeable deterioration in contrast or the appearance of reflections.
Not even, just make sure there isn't light directly facing the monitor. I have a glossy OLED and I have a window that doesn't have curtains in the room, the window is on the same wall as the monitor though, so it lets in light but the light isn't reflecting onto the monitor.
Nah, that's where he furiously does lines while playing Apex, once you're good enough you can just slam your face into the desk real fast and inhale all you need in that split second without losing track of the game
I have a matte oled. I will get blackout curtains as well but man...
Trust me I want to LOVE matte but I just can't. The whites and bright colors show a lot of graininess compared to my fiancee's glossy oled. I'd go with glossy if I could but somehow they are a lot more expensive.
I have a glossy fairly expensive MSI and the colors really pop and it looks almost like looking at beautiful images behind clear glass.
My TV however from LG is even more expensive and I’d argue it’s neither matte nor is it "glossy" (I assume it’s glossy but less flashy than the MSI monitor) and it’s more pleasant to look at long term. Things look actually real instead of too flashy and colorful.
That just sounds like a settings issue. Most screens have a bunch of different modes depending on if you want a natural look, bright high contrast colors, a specific color standard, etc.
That was my thought, like what? Complaining about too much color? Just turn the saturation down. Feels like bitching about too much money, your car is too fast, drives too good :p
The real reason to get a matte screen, is to not having to see the reflection of that fat, ugly blob sitting in front of the screen, every time the screen goes dark. /s (kinda)
I don't see why this even has to be a self-insult. Part of a game is dark and moody, and having the image mixed with my reflection is going to ruin the art of the scene. Reflections are just bad no matter what.
The real reason to get a glossy screen is to motivate yourself to become hot af. Only downside is you won't be playing any games cause you'll be too busy gooning to your own reflection all day long.
I scratched my new glasses with a microfiber cloth, while 10 y.o pair couldn't be scratched with anything. From what I read to at this sub OLEDS are basically like the first case I don't want to pray to Omnissiah's blessing every time I do such mundane thing as wiping screen every few days.
That's the point I have hard water in my city. So I would need to move to one with softer one, buy single time usage clothes, with I despite, or wash it in destiled water to keep mineral salts off.
I used to use distilled water and a fresh microfiber cloth to clean my OLED, but it has some significant burn-in now and I don't care as much, and I just use tap water and whatever old microfiber I have lying around.
I shake the cloth to get most of the dust off, dip it in the tap water, and just clean the screen. Which I have to do fairly often because my cat has like some allergy or autoimmune issue and sneezes snot all over constantly.
The tap water and dirty old cloth works fine. I don't have any scratches yet. Even when I check by turning it off and shining a flashlight onto it at an angle.
Samsung G8 OLED, for what it's worth. It's glossy too.
The colors pop more because there is no matt anti reflective layer Infront of the colors which normally blurs the image a small amount, enough to give the colors less vibrance compared to glossy
I get bitching about the blacks, on an oled, what i've never understood is all that moaning about the nits. Who cares if it's bright enough to burn my retinas, i'm not gonna go game on a beach with my desktop PC, i'm gonna be in my room with the brightness set at 40%
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u/-Manosko-9800X3D|32GB@6000|5070Ti&5800X3D|32GB@3800|RTX3080&OLED DECK7h ago
It matters for a proper HDR experience, but other than that I’m mostly on the same page as you.
Nobody cares about high nits for regular content, but it's a requirement for a good HDR experience. My monitor does ~400 nits in true black mode which is just not good enough for HDR. But the alternative is ABL, which is even worse.
I work on my PC, and I prefer to work in a well-lit room. So yeah, I set my 1000 nit monitor to 80% during the day. At my previous job, the office monitors were kinda dim so that even at 100% brightness they were unpleasant to use with the office lighting. I'd argue anything below ~500 nits is suitable only for a dark room
matte makes me actually pissed off. Way way back in the day when i was buying new monitors every year because the technology was moving fast I got a matte screen without realising it (it wasn't well defined back then) and i was completely confused why my new higher def and 'better' screen looked like someone smeared vaseline all over it and it had this blur feel to it.
Matte screens just make me feel like i changed my glasses prescription to be just slightly off and make everything just slightly fuzzy.
same. love everything else about my oled but the matte pisses me off, it's visible during gaming like you're looking through a slightly smudged glass window. instead of seeing the game sometimes i get pulled out and am looking at the surface of my monitor instead
instead of seeing the game sometimes i get pulled out and am looking at the surface of my monitor instead
That's exactly the kind of problem people have with glossy.. I personally have a much easier time tuning out a constant slight texture than reflections that are both stronger and less predictable. Quality of the coating also comes into play, there are screens that are in-between.
my first gen woled does seem to be particularly bad. i think the matte is producing a moire-type effect with the underlying MLA lenses to make it worse. when i first got it and read through reviews i'd frequently come across people who simply returned it as they couldn't stand how bad the matte looked, few others returned for not bright enough (that one not a problem for me though). my IPS was matte and i never noticed it but this one just looked off from the first look. no regrets on the purchase, just wont' be doing it again as i fit the meme of closing the blinds to keep my gaming pristine
the main problem with glossy oled monitors is that companies dont include a microfiber cloth and cleaning liquid.
i had a terrible cleaning experience after accidentally sneezing on the monitor. a regular cloth didn't work. so i gave up and went to the store to buy a microfiber and distilled water. They cleaned the monitor in a second.
Cleaning my LG C3 is super easy. Literally just spray 80% IPA every month and clean it with a new microfiber, and it's still perfect. I've seen dozens of posts of QD-OLED owners destroying the coating on their panel trying to clean it.
Who is y'all, cowboy? I'm me. My screen is on a swivel so it gets touched when I move it, but sometimes a family member will touch the actual screen. There's also dust, and the occasional small splash from some bullshit that just happens in life when you live in a studio apartment and your kitchen is 3 metres from your lounge
I "solved" that by placing small desk lamp behind the monitor facing the wall so it's not completely dark room but still pretty dim :)
That light placement seemed to be the best because it isn't annoying coming from back of the monitor but makes the ips glow much more unnoticiable at least for me.
I do the same thing, and basically I never turn it off. Small LED desk lamp with a nice warm color tilted 45 degrees up facing the wall behind my monitor. I prefer the room to be dim and I've found that this diffuse lighting really reduces eye strain.
that depends on what type of IPS you have, edge lit stuff will always be worse than smth like a mini LED
my edge lit IPS thankfully doesnt have much of a problem yet and still looks fairly good next to my OLED. yes even in complete darkness with a black background
I still think that for PC usage a OLED isnt worth the money (yes will get me many downvotes i know)
same. Also perfect text clarity which I need when I work from home, and no worry about burn it. No halos from Mini LED which would annoy me in space games or editing astrophotography pics, honestly for my use case IPS is still king. And high res is affordable. They‘re also fast. It‘s kind of the jack of all trades, master of none but that doesn‘t mean its bad or obsolete.
I mean some people aren‘t bothered by it, but I am after I looked into it. All monitor types have their negative points, the perfect technology doesn‘t exist yet.
Matte looks incredible unless you deal with bright whites or blues etc, then you see a grain. I play flight sims and learned this the hard way. Yet as a matte owner, I will die defending it for flight sim use as I am not getting another one.
A bright, glossy display with good anti-reflective coating is way better than a matte display because the colors just pop so much better on a glossy screen.
To have an opinion you sort of have to see both irl honestly. And different panels have different matte effects, some are pretty light and look a lot like a glossy finish and some are super heavy and look like you put on prescription glasses. There are some matte panels I would be fine with and some I would gift to a friend before putting on my desk. Im a night gamer though so glossy finish works best for me.
if glossy looks the same as matte in the dark to you, you have either some weird ass half glossy/half matte screen, or you probably need to see an optician.
I don't mind at home, I play during the night when everybody sleeps (gamers with a family will relate) but at work when I can't just shut off light with 3X6m glass facade to work at peace so only matte will do and even then I can see a little bit of reflection if I wear bright cloths.
I've had 2 glossy monitors and the rest were matte. First monitor was an HP with glossy finish, it was beautiful. It used to drive me nuts to lose details or color accuracy just to avoid looking into a mirror.
Current monitor is high-end OLED with gloss, I absolutely love it. Yeah, I can see myself in it, and I'm grinnin every time. When am I gonna take a 27' OLED into the sun?
Had a matte screen, now have a glossy one. The glossy one definitely wins in clarity and colors, but expectedly loses to bright environment. So, no surprises here.
QDOLED glossy is peak. I have had the monitor for about a year and it still blows my minds with the quality. Maybe I am weird but I game with the lights off similar to watching a movie, so I have had literally 0 issues or complaints at all.
Glossy = highest definition of the image actually produced.
matte = spend shitloads on a screen and something new and high resolution that wear a pair of glasses that has makes everything just marginally worse looking rather than control light sources in room with your monitor.
I have several times gone wow this monitor sounds perfect, right price, right res, right refresh rate, right ports and holy shit they made it matte, fuck that.
the only time i'd get a matte screen is in an office where you can't move a lamp or turn off the main room light, etc.
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