Has anyone had any experience with wide-gamut monitors ?

It seems they use different backlight like GB-r-LED, RB-LED vs usual W-LED, maybe that would give better experience (also they usually true 8 bit). Those are professional graphics monitors so they are on the costly side usually.

(Non-exhaustive) list of such monitors (with LCD panel models):

  • Dell UP2414Q (LM238WR1-SLA1)
  • Asus PA249Q (LM240WU9)
  • BenQ PG2401PT (LM240WU9)
  • Dell U2413 (LM240WU9-SLA1)
  • Eizo CG247 (LM240WU9)
  • HP Z24x (LM240WU9-SLA1)
  • NEC PA242W (LM240WU9)
  • Dell UP2516D (LM250WQ2)
  • Dell UP2716D (LM270WQ6)
  • Philips 272P4QPJKEB/00 (M270DAN02.1)
  • BenQ SW2700PT (M270DAN02.1)

Spectrum examples:

  • RB-LED spectrum
  • GB-LED spectrum
  • Typical W-LED spectrum

Additional info

These are old LED monitors right? This was how they first used to make them before they changed to the standard W-LED. I haven't tried one but I imagine most people on this forum would have trouble with them because spectrum is only a small part of the problem. All those first model LED's are just terrible quality. The Dell on your list I just looked it up has a GTG of 8 but that new LG IPS Ultragear I believe is 1GTG and it is 144hz reducing motion blur in half. If you believe spectrum is your thing just buy OLED or a Samsung Quantum Dot or the new LG IPS use Nano IPS. Which those last two I mentioned give more red light. Or LG's new 2019 OLED TV which is considered flicker free and low blue light.

    jasonpicard These are old LED monitors right?

    Not really, e.g. BenQ SW2700PT is 2015 model.

    jasonpicard OLED or a Samsung Quantum Dot or the new LG IPS use Nano IPS.

    These are closer to the RB-LED spectrum but still not there, e.g.:

    • OLED Samsung galaxy tab s4
    • QLED Samsung TV
    • The LG OLED TV's spectrum

    I used to be nuts about spectrum for awhile. I used to believe that my issue was with spectrum and flicker. I don't fully understand how they get these spectrum charts because take any TN LED from 2013 and compare it to some low end TN panels now and the color reproduction now is incredible and even the viewing angles are starting to close in on IPS. Some monitor maker just made a claim that there TN has the same viewing angles as IPS don't think it's out yet. Here check out this spectrum from a plasma. I own 6 plasma TV's in my house.

    http://shsnls.com/articles.php?id=91

    Lots of red middle green little blue.

    I believe the panel powering the monitor plays a bigger role. A lot of the newer 2019 monitors are using a new panel from AU Optronics. The quality of these compared to anything even last year is next level. They have IPS panels with a GTG of 1 now. Panel type also is a factor VA/TN/IPS. Check out this video from Linus especially on the first monitor. Its a VA panel look how smeary it is when playing games. The pixels can't change fast enough so you don't get proper color.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76KPzzMccjM

    You get greenish/washed out ugly colors when the monitor isn't good enough. Even check the LG at the end it's great for gaming but not good for internet reading in terms of image quality.

    I believe it's this video where he talks about the panel behind the screen when Linus reviews the first 300hz Laptop.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYa-csmwDPg

    Does anyone else know how these spectrum charts work?? Do they account for brighness?? I know that if you control the gamma and turn the brightness down to zero you eliminate a significant amount of blue light. I believe it was Eizo who makes these claims on their site by just dropping down to 5000K you eliminate a certain percentage of blue light.
    Anyways interesting none the less.

    It's interesting as well because it's hard to get this information but monitor/TV makers keep changing their LED quality but don't really make it too public. LG did in 2017 models of OLED TV's.

    https://www.oled-info.com/reports-say-lgd-aims-change-its-woled-tv-structure-yb-rgb

      jasonpicard I believe the panel powering the monitor plays a bigger role.

      Maybe, but as we don't have any precise model that could tell what display is good and what is bad, it potentially useful to try one of those alternative-backlight displays. First of all they have alternative backlight 🙂. And second they usually have more expensive panels installed (from color reproduction point of view).

      jasonpicard Does anyone else know how these spectrum charts work?? Do they account for brighness??

      Not sure 100%, but as I understand testers use a hardware spectrometer and measure emission spectrum of white, red, green and blue filled screens (respective lines on graphs).

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