[Rapzid]

The industry is in a very strange place right now. HDR monitors are both quite expensive and unimpressive compared to the HDR OLED TVs..

For the 5-6k that this display from Apple costs, I would certainly expect it to be an OLED display at LEAST. But it's not.

How is this the best we can get and it's NOT OLED? Dimming zones for 6k? I don't understand what's going on, I just want a nice OLED monitor that will fit on my monitor arm. I'll even pay the same price that you can get an AMAZING 55" OLED TV from LG for; 1500-2k.

[cheschire]

OLED isn't super useful on computer screens where elements stay in a static location for a long time due to burn in.

Also the amount of bright colors used in computer interfaces would cause some significant discomfort.

And I'm not sure how legitimate this claim is, but I've read before that OLED suffers from dead pixels at a higher rate than other screen types, but don't take that too seriously without proof.

[account42]

> OLED isn't super useful on computer screens where elements stay in a static location for a long time due to burn in.

I see this repeated a lot. Do you have any numbers/images on actual burnin in OLED screens. Would be interesting to know how long an OLED screen remains useable when used as a PC monitor.

Or to put it another way: Burn in does not seem to be enough of a concern to prevent Samsung/etc from puttin OLED screens into phones.

> Also the amount of bright colors used in computer interfaces would cause some significant discomfort.

The entire point of Apple's solution here is that UI's max brightness is not the display's true max brightness.

[cheschire]

Indeed, burn-in tests almost feel anecdotal because they involve no more than several TVs. We don't have the MTTF type numbers for pixels like we demand for hard drives.

The problem with contrast is more pronounced on my OLED tv than on my HDR LED monitor. I've also noticed on my TV if I watch netflix with standard size subtitles, the brightness overwhelms the lower part of the image on dark TV shows. I suspect this is less of an issue on LED monitors only because the contrast is not so extreme.

Again, all anecdotes. I do like OLED though, enough to make it my priority TV feature.

[drivebycomment]

I'd suspect the OLED burn-in is a serious concern for a monitor.

[dharma1]

Apple will be releasing miniled displays next year, which should be pretty close to oled in terms of contrast, but without the screen burn issues

[ipsum2]

OLED has compromises that make it unacceptable for some professional work. The main issue with it is the lack of brightness (i.e. nits) required for true HDR, compared to miniLED and LCD.