[jeroendebruyne]

I received the XG27UCDMG , while the colors are really nice and I like the monitor I think of still returning it.

Compare to the monitors I have used in the past for me after an hour of work it makes my eyes hurt… its like watching an CRT all over. Not really nice for the eyes.

So I am back to square 1 in finding a monitor.

Is there something you can recommend based on my previous input?

Basicly I to stay 1440p 240hz for now but what to pick… I want to go 4K ips but there is non with 240hz. Only an LG one I found but seems to have the same bad viewing angels as the M27UP it seems.

[PCM2]

I’m sorry to see that you’re finding it uncomfortable. I don’t really know what I’d recommend you try next, but I would give yourself as long as you can to try to get used to the QD-OLED (within your return window). Because I know that it can take a while to actually get used to a monitor that’s very different to what you’ve used before. And I’ve been contacted by multiple people who find QD-OLEDs uncomfortable at first, but adapt to them after about a week of solid use. You could perhaps try a WOLED model as they’re spectrally quite different to QD-OLEDs and you may find them more to your liking.

[jeroendebruyne]

Nah will be the same I will stick to 1440p for now untill OLED really is what it has to be in a couple of years maybi… its getting pushed to much in the gaming market and has so many flaws. I don’t know who can work alot on this kind of monitor without having eye pain. Basicly your looking at an CRT again 🙂

[PCM2]

With respect, it’s nothing like old CRTs (thankfully). The impulse control of the backlight of an LCD with strobe backlight is quite similar to a CRT, involving very large brightness changes. OLEDs use minor cyclical brightness fluctuations and therefore don’t exhibit the same potentially uncomfortable flickering. As such the majority of people find them comfortable, even if they found CRTs problematic (I fit into this camp myself). I don’t expect this sampling behaviour (brightness regulation) to change with newer OLED models, so if you don’t find them comfortable now and don’t want to give them a fair chance I wouldn’t expect that to change either.

With all this said a minority of people will still find OLEDs uncomfortable. But I stress this is a minority, which you unfortunately fit into. So when you say you “don’t know who can work a lot on this kind of monitor without having eye pain”, understand you’re extrapolating your own relatively rare (but still consequential) experience onto a majority which have no such issues. That’s not to diminish what you’re feeling, but it does add important perspective.

[jeroendebruyne]

Maybi its the glossy with the still weird text feeling that makes it so. The 4K helped quite a bit but still with the glossy panel and text not 100% clear on 4K .

But it is for certain not useable for anyone doing alot of work, anyone telling me this is crazy.

[PCM2]

But it is for certain not useable for anyone doing alot of work, anyone telling me this is crazy.

It’s not “crazy”, it’s simply that they’re not sensitive to the same things you are.

But I agree that the fringing issues could be playing a role here – and they’re really the main complaint people will have about OLED technology in general. Fortunately panel manufacturers are addressing this, or at least appear to be (albeit slowly). So I’d expect improvements in that arena for future generations of the ‘4K’ UHD models.

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