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AOC AGON AG274QZM - 27 Inch QHD Mini LED Gaming Monitor, 240Hz, 1ms GTG, IPS, HDR1000, KVM, Height Adjustable, USB HUB (2560 x 1440 @ 240hz, HDR1000, HDMI 2.1, DP 1.4, USB-C 65w power delivery)

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Color Setup has a 6-axis color adjustment plus three color temp presets. The user mode has precise RGB sliders that help achieve pro-level grayscale accuracy for both SDR and HDR. The Audio menu includes a toggle for DTS sound processing. Turning this on improves the audio by expanding the soundstage. It also sounds a little less tinny though you won’t hear any serious bass from the internal speakers.

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Mind you when it comes to motion clarity the BenQ Zowie XL2566K (which is TN) was the winner by far. After calibrating the monitor and dialing in the settings, it also proves vibrant and color accurate. I measured 99.8% coverage of the sRGB color space, which is standard, but also a very respectable 92.7% of the DCI-P3 color space and an excellent 96.7% of AdobeRGB. While that might sound like the AGON PRO AG274QZM is well suited for creative work like photo and video editing, the color reproduction might not be accurate enough. The AGON PRO has a 240Hz refresh rate and rapid 1ms GTG response time that helps you hit moving targets with precision and get you ahead of the competition by milliseconds.You are arguing against it without using it. It is not nearly as dark as you think. I have to turn the brightness down on my OLED.My monitor is calibrated to 210 nits via a ColorMunki Display (a professional colorimeter) for a mostly dim room and I've routinely calibrated displays for people with various needs and ambient light levels. Do not assume that someone doesn't know what a specific brightness level is like. There is some moderate improvement to “local contrast” in HDR, measuring ~3080:1 between adjacent bright and dark areas on a 10% area bright pattern test. The default gamma was largely very close to the 2.2 target, dipping a bit low in the lighter grey shades and leading to a 2.15 average overall. Nothing of any real issue there though. RGB balance was pretty good, being only a little low in the green mix. But the resulting colour temp was good across the greyscale with 6497k average (0% deviance). It also offered a reliable white point only marginally off the target at 6460k (1% deviance). This all resulted in a respectable and pretty decent 2.1 dE average for the greyscale accuracy. The luminance was high at 356 nits and so the brightness setting will definitely need to be turned down from the default 70. The contrast ratio was reasonable for an IPS panel and on spec basically at 992:1. From a little projector on the bottom part of the stand shines an AOC AGON logo on to your desktop, or you can turn this off in the menu if you’d rather (you can also disable the RGB lighting if you want).

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One of the most notable complaints with the alienware or LG OLED monitors is that text is blurry. This extends to the LG C2 as well. IMO this is a dealbreaker because being a PC monitor means having text on screen in most cases, often of smaller sizes, and impairing the ability to read that is going to diminish the experience greatly. At the base of the stand, there’s even a little RGB LED projector that beams the AOC and AGON logos onto your desk, but it’s not customisable so it’s redundant unless you’re really into the brand. Gamut coverage – we provide measurements of the screens colour gamut relative to various reference spaces including sRGB, DCI-P3, Adobe RGB and Rec.2020. Coverage is shown in absolute numbers as well as relative, which helps identify where the coverage extends beyond a given reference space. A CIE-1976 chromaticity diagram (which provides improved accuracy compared with older CIE-1931 methods) is included which provides a visual representation of the monitors colour gamut as compared with sRGB, and if appropriate also relative to a wide gamut reference space such as DCI-P3. Cr4zyIve not personally had any complaints with the subpixel on my QD-OLED I realise those that use their displays for a lot of text work might have issues but for content, design and gaming its been a non-issue.For everyone else, it’s probably overkill; I couldn’t really tell the difference between games running at 240Hz and games running at “only” 170Hz on my regular 1440p gaming monitor. That’s about the standard for mid-tier monitors these days, and it’s even possible to buy a truly excellent 27-inch, 1440p gaming monitor that can still hit 240Hz like the Alienware AW2723DF for literally half the price. The argument presented in the video is a lot more nuanced then "get the OLED", you are entirely misrepresenting it by glossing over the points made. Vayra86Absolute nonsense, all you have to prevent is getting sunlight to fall onto your screen or having it behind you, which is the case with every other monitor ever - that's just unpleasant to look at.It's a funny thing, light bounces. When light is bouncing through a room, it's called ambient light. You'll almost always have ambient light unless you live in a darkroom. I never said anything about direct sunlight, I specifically referenced ambient to avoid the the assumptions like you've made here. Vayra86But 180cd/m2 is a standard issue brightness & calibration target for any typically lit room. Daylight, mind, or office lighting. OLED meets that spec just fine. Another aspect here is that at higher brightness greyscale balance and deltaE errors can increase which they certainly do on any LCD, with IPS suffering the least - but that comes with a meagre 1000:1 contrast as well.No, standard is much higher:

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