Oddly, Acer has actually released two sets of images for the monitor. The images in their press release and the AcerDisplay website do not match the photos on the official Acer.com website. I've gone through and replaced them with only photos from the press release, as given the context these seem to be more likely to be correct.
As for the table errors, fixed. Thanks for the heads up!
The second picture was a actually a BM320 and it was obviously photoshopped to make the bezels look unrealistically thin. That's the picture their PR department uses to promote the product. Too bad most news outlets fall for it and use it without any fact-checking. And almost nobody ever calls manufacturers out for this kind of deceptions.
Nice! Great size and resolution along with top specs. I'll be really interested in seeing this tested and if it can show different color spaces with pip. I hope they beat Asus on price too.
Nice monitor for sure but the price is still out of reach for myself and a lot of others $1700US is $2231CAD that's more than a lot of peoples system cost. I could just get a 43 inch 4K TV for less and use that heck I think some of them are either going to or are coming out with Freesync support as well. I currently use a Samsung 60" HDTV that works very well as a large screen in my living room and because you have to sit back from it the picture looks great.
Besides that 32" to me at least seems tiny since currently using the Samsung 60" and before was using a 1080p BenQ 120Hz projector on a 125" screen sitting distance was 17 feet back or maybe it was 18 feet...lol I still have the setup but do not use it because it was far easier to hook my main rig up to the living room TV and sit back and enjoy it from there.
This is for professionals. Work you see on TV, movie theaters, magazines, billboards. You know....the professional stuff. $1700 isn't a damn thing to them if it allows them to do their work right.
This is a great price point for professionals actually. A designer is going to be using a $2-3k tablet, and a computer equipped with components that individually cost almost double what the monitor does (workstation GPUs are in the ~$3000 range)..
209 w power consumption O.O ? while specs are "decent" the price is not so very much, but then again most anything "professional" costs an arm a leg and sometimes kidneys for good measure.
would love to have a gaming monitor properly calibrated from the factory and not require end user to "dick around" having to tweak color profiles and such ^.^
IPS is not the right technology for HDR. They're going to have terrible blooming and glowing halos around highlights, and those 384 LED zones are going to be very obvious. The typical contrast ratio is 5x less than VA. I know VA is not popular in monitors because of its narrow viewing range, but really it's the only panel type that should have FALD... and these monitors have privacy screens built in anyway, so wide viewing angles don't seem to be a necessary feature here.
Clearly a typo (on acer's side). The quick start manual lists a power draw of 48.5W typical at 200 nits (although the monitor is rated for 400 nits max so it can draw quite a bit of power indeed - it's class D efficiency according to the same document which isn't all that great but I think is fairly typical for this class of monitor).
edit: for 1000 nits the 200W would actually be "reasonable" I suppose. But this is a peak value which I believe can't be maintained over the full screen (the spec sheet says 400 nits native, 1000 nits hdr peak).
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nicolaim - Thursday, July 5, 2018 - link
The two photos are not of the same monitor.Text says 4 W speakers, table says 8 W.
Table says 32" monitor.
Ports don't match between text and table.
Ryan Smith - Thursday, July 5, 2018 - link
"The two photos are not of the same monitor."Oddly, Acer has actually released two sets of images for the monitor. The images in their press release and the AcerDisplay website do not match the photos on the official Acer.com website. I've gone through and replaced them with only photos from the press release, as given the context these seem to be more likely to be correct.
As for the table errors, fixed. Thanks for the heads up!
close - Sunday, July 8, 2018 - link
The second picture was a actually a BM320 and it was obviously photoshopped to make the bezels look unrealistically thin. That's the picture their PR department uses to promote the product. Too bad most news outlets fall for it and use it without any fact-checking. And almost nobody ever calls manufacturers out for this kind of deceptions.Dug - Thursday, July 5, 2018 - link
Nice! Great size and resolution along with top specs. I'll be really interested in seeing this tested and if it can show different color spaces with pip. I hope they beat Asus on price too.rocky12345 - Thursday, July 5, 2018 - link
Nice monitor for sure but the price is still out of reach for myself and a lot of others $1700US is $2231CAD that's more than a lot of peoples system cost. I could just get a 43 inch 4K TV for less and use that heck I think some of them are either going to or are coming out with Freesync support as well. I currently use a Samsung 60" HDTV that works very well as a large screen in my living room and because you have to sit back from it the picture looks great.rocky12345 - Thursday, July 5, 2018 - link
Besides that 32" to me at least seems tiny since currently using the Samsung 60" and before was using a 1080p BenQ 120Hz projector on a 125" screen sitting distance was 17 feet back or maybe it was 18 feet...lol I still have the setup but do not use it because it was far easier to hook my main rig up to the living room TV and sit back and enjoy it from there.PixyMisa - Thursday, July 5, 2018 - link
For $1700 you can get a pretty nice Dell 4K all-in-one.Even less here in Australia where it's currently on sale.
But it's not HDR or DCI-P3, and only has one HDMI input.
Holliday75 - Thursday, July 5, 2018 - link
This is for professionals. Work you see on TV, movie theaters, magazines, billboards. You know....the professional stuff. $1700 isn't a damn thing to them if it allows them to do their work right.FullmetalTitan - Thursday, July 5, 2018 - link
This is a great price point for professionals actually. A designer is going to be using a $2-3k tablet, and a computer equipped with components that individually cost almost double what the monitor does (workstation GPUs are in the ~$3000 range)..Dragonstongue - Thursday, July 5, 2018 - link
209 w power consumption O.O ? while specs are "decent" the price is not so very much, but then again most anything "professional" costs an arm a leg and sometimes kidneys for good measure.would love to have a gaming monitor properly calibrated from the factory and not require end user to "dick around" having to tweak color profiles and such ^.^
wrkingclass_hero - Thursday, July 5, 2018 - link
IPS is not the right technology for HDR. They're going to have terrible blooming and glowing halos around highlights, and those 384 LED zones are going to be very obvious. The typical contrast ratio is 5x less than VA. I know VA is not popular in monitors because of its narrow viewing range, but really it's the only panel type that should have FALD... and these monitors have privacy screens built in anyway, so wide viewing angles don't seem to be a necessary feature here.Lolimaster - Thursday, July 5, 2018 - link
209w?Even a 25" inch Trinitron consumed less...
mczak - Thursday, July 5, 2018 - link
Clearly a typo (on acer's side). The quick start manual lists a power draw of 48.5W typical at 200 nits (although the monitor is rated for 400 nits max so it can draw quite a bit of power indeed - it's class D efficiency according to the same document which isn't all that great but I think is fairly typical for this class of monitor).mczak - Thursday, July 5, 2018 - link
edit: for 1000 nits the 200W would actually be "reasonable" I suppose. But this is a peak value which I believe can't be maintained over the full screen (the spec sheet says 400 nits native, 1000 nits hdr peak).Lolimaster - Thursday, July 5, 2018 - link
Why the hell so much when the Proart is <60w.DanNeely - Thursday, July 5, 2018 - link
The 1000not FALD backlight's the main offender.frozen_water - Thursday, July 5, 2018 - link
How is this not in the same category with the Gsync reference monitors, x27 & the Asus one...Same specs, but without Gsync. Even the cabinet looks like the x27.
I get in the past gaming monitors were no where close to color calibrated “pro” monitors. But I argue the x27 changes the dynamic.
Diji1 - Friday, July 6, 2018 - link
Well to start with these are 60Hz whereas the new monitors are 144 if memory serves me right.