Not gonna lie, 100 euro for a newer version of HDMI and 44 hz is hefty. They had to upgrade the signal processing interally to deal with the added bandwidth? Does this work with DSC?
Display Stream Compression. It's an ~2:1 compression system that should be visually lossless that's been part of DisplayPort since v1.2; but AFAIK hasn't ever actually been used.
Newer version of Displayport? It doesn't have DP 2.0 (nothing won't till late next year) nor modern HDMI 2.1.
This device is for low-budget gamers who won't afford the R&D costs & modern I/O of Thunderbolt 3, USB4, HDMI 2.1 + at least a more competent HDR rating.
What's the point of using DSC on an extremely low-end monitor like these two?
My original thought: No Wide Colour Gamut == No Sale. I want my games to look great as well as play great.
However, looking at the specifications, it appears to support: "Color SRGB coverage: 124" (124%?) and "Adobe RGB Coverage (%): 92"
Still claims 16.7 million colours; either that spec is wrong (perhaps using FRC to achieve 10-bit colour) or it's really just 8-bit from the video card perspective but uses a wider gamut than sRGB.
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hanselltc - Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - link
Not gonna lie, 100 euro for a newer version of HDMI and 44 hz is hefty. They had to upgrade the signal processing interally to deal with the added bandwidth? Does this work with DSC?fackamato - Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - link
What is DSC?DanNeely - Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - link
Display Stream Compression. It's an ~2:1 compression system that should be visually lossless that's been part of DisplayPort since v1.2; but AFAIK hasn't ever actually been used.DanNeely - Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - link
v1.4 *sigh*romrunning - Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - link
Echoing comments made many times - if only Anandtech had a proper comment-editing system.lilkwarrior - Thursday, December 12, 2019 - link
Newer version of Displayport? It doesn't have DP 2.0 (nothing won't till late next year) nor modern HDMI 2.1.This device is for low-budget gamers who won't afford the R&D costs & modern I/O of Thunderbolt 3, USB4, HDMI 2.1 + at least a more competent HDR rating.
What's the point of using DSC on an extremely low-end monitor like these two?
FATCamaro - Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - link
1500R is too curved. Stupid.GreenReaper - Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - link
So bend it back to your liking. At least you know it can bend that far.GreenReaper - Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - link
My original thought:No Wide Colour Gamut == No Sale. I want my games to look great as well as play great.
However, looking at the specifications, it appears to support:
"Color SRGB coverage: 124" (124%?) and "Adobe RGB Coverage (%): 92"
Still claims 16.7 million colours; either that spec is wrong (perhaps using FRC to achieve 10-bit colour) or it's really just 8-bit from the video card perspective but uses a wider gamut than sRGB.
GreenReaper - Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - link
Here's the specifications I'm looking at: https://eu.aoc.com/en/gaming-monitors/cu34g2-bk/sp...Scalarscience - Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - link
Probably 8-bit with a wider gamut than sRGB available by changing modes on the monitor.lilkwarrior - Thursday, December 12, 2019 - link
Wide color gamut is something apparently gamers won't put much money on at the moment to these gaming monitor manufacturers.Dolby Vision, HLG, and HDR10 should be standard in something that's supposed to be a gaming monitor (higher tier than average joe monitors)
spkay31 - Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - link
I thought she was working on the green new deal. Well at least she achieved something worthwhile with the monitors.DigitalFreak - Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - link
I see what you did there.