Samsung U28D590 review - Ultra HD 4K 28" monitor for $599

[leeys]

I thought getting OLED to large sizes was the problem?

[Jacek]

Don't hold your breath on OLED monitors. They aren't going to happen any time soon. OLED has pretty heavy burn in issues, which make them useless for use as a computer monitor. Cost wouldn't even be that much of an issue anymore, Samsung has a 10" (?) tablet that uses an OLED screen, and it isn't that expensive compared to comparable tablets with a LCD screen.

 

There is 55" OLED TV on the market already costing little more than A7S camera: LG 55EA980V

[tomekk]

You're right, TN has improved a lot recently. 

So have other technologies.

[leeys]

There is 55" OLED TV on the market already costing little more than A7S camera: LG 55EA980V

Seems like the price of two A7S's. Still promising though.

 

Does that mean there'll be a 32-36" 5k OLED monitor in the future? Because that'd be really nice for work.

[Jacek]

Seems like the price of two A7S's. Still promising though.

In my country street price is similar to A7s. It was expensive after release only.

[dahlfors]

its great and the price is amazing. I do wish they went full 4k which has always been 4096 for me anyways. My monitor setup is getting close to needing an update too. Samsung at it again. Great stuff

Rob, LG has an upcoming 31" 4096x2160 display, LG Electronics 31MU97-B, 31":

http://geizhals.eu/lg-electronics-31mu97-b-a1162783.html

Preorder pricing is from 1300 euro.

Resolution: 4096x2160, 4K+60Hz
Luminance: 320cd/m²
Contrast: 1000:1 (static), 5000000:1 (dynamic)
Response time: 5ms (Manufacturer measurement...)
Viewing angle: 178°/178°
Panel type: AH-IPS
Backlight: GB-r-LED-Backlight
Color gamut: Wide Color Gamut (99% Adobe RGB, 100% sRGB)
Hardware calibration.

At that resolution there aren't so far any other options, and this one was just recently announced. Maybe someone else will make displays with 4096x2160 resolution soon enough once that one is out, but 3840x2160 will for sure become the commonly available resolution for highres displays.

[jgharding]

It's a shame not all Windows apps can 2x scale, as I'm a committed Windows man. Apple do have advantage here with the closed hardware loop.

[Leon Yiu]

http://www.avsforum.com/forum/26-home-theater-computers/1477339-so-you-ve-built-your-htpc-now-what-next-how-get-ultimate-picture-sound-quality-your-htpc-madvr-svp-xbmc-mediabrowser-jriver.html

 

For those worried about the effects of scaling when watching less than 2160p footage

 

If you use windows there is a high quality video renderer available called madvr for mpc-hc which bypasses your graphic cards destructive upscaling algorithms for more advanced but computationally intensive ones which are of much better results.

 

For those of you using intel integrated graphics, they have dedicated hardware scalers, while there are better algorithms, they do a decent job, for those using NVidia or AMD which I expect to be the majority here, they use bilinear, a crude but cheap form of scaling that results in a blurred pixelated image with loss of detail.

 

Have a look at the above link

[Leon Yiu]

The Samsung 40hu6900 is not much more expensive, you get a proper 40 inch tv with an hevc decoder for Netflix/amazon in 4k, a tv tuner, and a va panel which is far superior to the tn panel.

 

Of course biggest downside is size, it's not a monitor but a tv.

[Orangenz]

And the latest round of Adobe updates are here and now Windows apps have full scaling! Yup, all the CC apps now scale perfectly to high dpi screens and this reviewed screen looks great with it. I'm a very happy camper now.