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I thought one of the most fair comparisons to help us assess just how next-gen the Asus PQ 22 you OLED monitor is would be to take it and put it right beside another conventional high-end a sous display the PQ 27 UQ and the first thing you guys will notice especially if you're one of those dark mode all the things types is how much deeper and richer the blacks are this shouldn't really come as a surprise though since it's the main claim to fame of OLED you get much higher contrast because when the pixels are ordered to display black they really give you black rather than that glowy dark gray that you're used to on an LCD but surely then there's got to be a downside right yeah there is so let's talk about that after I talk about today's sponsor I fix it the Marlin screwdriver set from I fix it features five specialty precision screwdrivers check it out today at ifixit.com forward slash Linus in a nutshell the reason that LCDs can't display true black is that they work by shining a backlight through a membrane of liquid crystals that twist or untwist to let the appropriate amount of light through but displaying black doesn't make the backlight turn off it just makes the liquid crystals reorganize to try and block the light as you can see sunlight always makes it through either the crystal membrane or through the cracks between the pixels OLED technology by contrast uses no backlight instead applying electricity causes special organic phosphorous to glow so if you want black or the absence of light you just turn off the electricity and the results are I mean they're just incredible I'm a huge fan of OLED technology and the 3840 by 2160 resolution and inky blacks on this display make it just look so visceral much like the OLED screens that high-end phone buyers have been appreciating for the last few years also of note and this is actually one of the things that I've been personally most excited about with this technology is this displays incredible 0.1 millisecond pixel response time now this demo here will be a familiar one for display nerds and this is cool even through the camera if you get close you can really see the way that an OLED display can cut down on motion blur by the extra detail that you can make out on the aliens ship and face freaking awesome and speaking of getting close you shall at just 21 and a half inches this is about as small as modern monitors get so I guess it was a smart move for Asus to market this thing as a portable display for creators on the go you see the stand here is actually only held on by magnets and the monitor can be easily folded and slipped into a bag leaving you with a display that feels like when you're holding it kind of like an oversized tablet it's only one and a half kilograms an eight and a half millimeters thick it also comes with this Natick screen protector / stand that enables multiple configurations including a vertical mount but honestly it was a little hard to set up and too unstable to really inspire confidence so if I were you I'd probably stick with the metal stand which does still offer about twenty degrees of tilt adjustment oh and one more thing I'm sure many of you will appreciate the included stylish leather carry bag although for me mainly served as a reminder that 21 and a half inches is too small for my main workstation but too big for me to just slip it into my backpack and actually the portable design also effects it in other ways like the ports all we get is a single micro HDMI and two USB C ports which carry both DisplayPort and power I'll get back to those in a bit though because right now I have some burning questions to answer about the elephant in the room image retention commonly called burnin image retention is one of the two main reasons why o LED monitors haven't already become mainstream with the other one being their overall shorter lifespan basically burnin is caused by pixels displaying the same thing for long periods of time so news station logos sports scoreboards video game HUDs I mean really anything that stays on the screen without changing or moving it was the bane of plasma TVs and it's the worst nightmare of any Ola donor I mean I personally go to great lengths to ensure that my OLED TV never gets used for long gaming sessions or streaming music for example the issue is that on a PC there are a lot of things that always stay in the same spot like TAS bars buttons and toolbars and there's no real way to avoid them altogether so how then does the PQ 22 you overcome these challenges has there been a technological advancement that's allowed us to finally have OLED monitors without worrying about burnin No no the PQ 22 you actually uses fundamentally the same countermeasures that OLED TVs have been using for years like shifting the whole image over by a few pixels when it detects static content or simply dimming the screen which this one does with the help of a human sensor right over there now that is supposed to detect whether the monitor is actively being used by looking for someone sitting in front of it but honestly I ended up turning it off completely because I guess it was registering me as a lizard person or something and turning the screen off when I was in the middle of doing something extremely annoying with all of that said even if they didn't help with burnin technological advancements did still play a role in bringing this monitor to market so the PQ 20 to you uses an OLED panel made by a relatively new company Joe led a joint venture between Sony Panasonic and Japan Display established in 2014 and while their OLED panels use full RGB sub pixels like the AMOLED screens made by Samsung Joe LED is using an inkjet printing manufacturing process to make their panels thirty to fifty percent cheaper than those produced with the conventional evaporation method so then that's pretty great affordability at last and I mean big-screen OLED TVs are popular handheld devices with OLED screens are popular why not then go after the market in the middle well this is where we get into the problems for one thing 21 and a half inches is what I refer to as a tweener size it's too big for tablets and laptops but smaller than the 23 to 24 inch size that has become really entry-level for the desktop and then for two if they're inkjet process has contributed to making this thing a lot cheaper I don't even want to know how much it was gonna cost if they made it the conventional way because a seuss is charging 4000 for this thing and and no not ring it or yen in rupees I'm talking four thousand freedom dollars so to put that in perspective at that price I could buy a 55 inch LGB 8 4k OLED TV burn it into oblivion and then buy a new one who so okay but like hold on a second men I mean lots of products are expensive that doesn't necessarily mean that they're a terrible value so let's imagine for a moment let's play a little game money's no object and then while we're at it you you love the the total 21 and a half inch size if those things are true are you getting the premium performance that the price tag implies okay so this is marketing this display towards creators and they include a factory calibration report boasting of it's fantastic color accuracy thanks and indeed it has great coverage of the srgb Adobe RGB and DCI p3 color spaces which is great the problem is that when it comes to actually reproducing these billions of colors it fails and I mean like really fails like harder than the cheapest Walmart monitor that we checked out recently but how can that be possible so here's what we discovered we could get much improved color accuracy and act like really accurate if we measured just a small part of the screen rather than the entire thing we're talking Delta ease under 1 that's basically perfect the problem is that we can't get this kind of performance across the entire screen and it's because the screen just isn't bright enough suggesting that there's a power issue when it just isn't getting enough juice through its USB type-c port so in srgb mode the brightest white is under 18 it's and they lock the brightness so you can't even turn it up like you can in their best buy showroom standard mode which makes me wonder then about the HDR experience now this monitor supports HDR 10h LG and dolby vision it's actually one of the world's first displays to do so it's just that it only has a peak brightness of 335 nits and a sustained brightness of a hundred and fourteen it's now that is a far cry from the brightness levels that are required for good HD our thing is it's an inherent characteristic of OLED technology that increased brightness means increased risk of burnin so bottom line then should you buy this monitor remember we're playing a little game you like the portability and money is no object honestly the answer is still no the price would be absurd even if the product wasn't as rough around the edges as this one is and the portability even though we're playing this game where you like it just feels like kind of a tacked-on gimmick to make up for the fact that the screen is too small making matters worse it doesn't even have its own internal battery like other cheaper portable monitors with all of that said though as a tech demo for the concept of OLED monitors in general I'm still excited but also kind of getting worried about whether this is ever going to take off I mean the price is gonna have to drop by a factor of four or five which is possible over time but it's really clear to me that manufacturing volume has to ramp up significantly to make that happen and the risk then is that by the time that happens OLED could be replaced by emerging technologies like micro LED which if all goes according to plan is going to have all the benefits of OLED so those fast response times and perfect blacks but with none of the drawbacks and that is the degradation that comes from using organic substances do you need 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