[sblantipodi]

I expect some good improvements over the old QD-OLED TB400 monitors.

Can’t wait to see the new TB600, 360Hz, 4K panels

Hope to see a PC Monitors review soon.

[PCM2]

Definitely good to see this kind of progress. I’ve been pretty happy with the improvements made to the new ‘TrueBlack 500’ models with QuantumBlack screen surface. I was quite surprised by how much I’ve enjoyed ‘TrueBlack 500’ compared to ‘TrueBlack 400’, so ‘TrueBlack 600’ should be even better! I personally find these settings more comfortable than the high brightness HDR modes for longer sessions and of course it’s nice that they tend to be very well calibrated as well. The RGB stripe layout combined with a high pixel density should be a real winner to tackle potential fringing issues as well.

It seems the announcement of the panel is coming several months ahead of the release of any monitor using it. At least, based on MSI’s MPG OLED 322URDX36 which isn’t due until Q1 2027.

[sblantipodi]

I thought that TB500 was a minor upgrade in terms of brightness. I thought it was 20% brighter than TB400.

I can’t distinguish 20% more brightness, I think. I tried measuring it with the colorimeter, and 20% isn’t that great.
Isn’t it?

[PCM2]

It isn’t just about absolute percentage, it’s about sensitivity thresholds and what you’re going to and from. The image below gives a typical example of TB400 vs. TB500 brightness on QD-OLEDs (the TB500 model is a 500Hz QHD MSI). Some of the bumps up in brightness are nearly +100 nits and starting from a relatively low base. Going from just over 400 nits to just over 500 nits or even ~300 nits to ~375 is much easier to notice than going from say ~800 nits to ~1000 nits. And you’re also talking about the peak brightness of specific elements, where your eyes adapt to darker contrasting shades (or they affect perception, at least) and have smaller bursts of brightness in some scenes. It all makes a significant difference, I find it obvious and so do some others who have used both technologies.

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