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Existing players to be challenged by Samsung, LG, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and AOC/Phillips.
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Existing players to be challenged by Samsung, LG, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and AOC/Phillips.
might get more competitive
Looks like it'll be business as usual to me, I don't think people replace their monitors often enough to see significant increases in sales volume.
"Monitor manufacturers 'big up' next year in fear that monitor sales will drop further due to the economy and HMDs"
To be fair, if all those companies do release high-refresh gaming monitors the market will get more competitive. The level of competition has nothing to do with the size of the market; indeed, adding players to a small static market should have more impact on competition than adding them to a large or growing market.
Whether that will have any subsequent impact on consumers - in lower prices or higher availability, for instance - is questionable.
Due to a change in circumstance I don't think I'll ever get round to buying my "perfect" monitor now. I was holding out for OLED, but it has never arrived.
So I guess I'm wanting:
21:9 30-35" 1080-1440 (depending on the first size).
75Hz+ (I don't need any over inflated numbers, but 60Hz is too slow).
Now we need to add in HDR 10-bit display
Wide viewing angles
And often neglected, high-static contrast ratio (should go hand-in-hand with HDR).
Oh, yeah, and zero lag.
Obviously apart from the resolution, we're beginning to come close to replacing a CRT then.
So manufacturers will start releasing the same monitors that already exist but with gaudy bezels, crappy stands and totally unnecessarily extravagant packaging.
High refresh rate, high resolution, freesync ultra wide at a bargain price and I will bite your hand off. Otherwise I'm ok with what I have.
"Shipments of monitors overall have been disappointing in 2016"
Maybe because even the most expensive ones seem to have shocking build quality thesedays when it comes to light bleed levels.
If you're buying a new monitor and expect and demand a decent screen, be prepared for RMA hell, as it may take you 2,3 or 4 returns to get a decent one.
My idea of acceptable levels of light bleed seem to be wildly different to that of the manufacturers.
When it comes to PC components, nothing, and I mean nothing, is as stressful as buying a monitor.
I am thinking about replacing my Dell 2407-HC with a Dell S2417DG; 24", 1440p and G-Sync. The resolution and G-Sync are the two important things I am looking for, but it is a shame that there doesn't really seem to be anywhere you can go to compare them for yourself to see the difference (certainly no where local anyway).
Damn straight. It's even worse if you need a monitor for colour critical work where you need uniform brightness around the screen, no bleed from edges, accurate colour or even a wide gamut. Cheaper brands like Dell have the specs but you have to be really lucky with what panel you receive, a real lottery.
It'd be great if FreeSync scalers significantly stepped up their frequency range to match current panel performance.
I have an Acer 27" w/G-Sync....not changing anytime soon ....only change if I were to go to 4k gaming
Nope. Don't care.
G-sync ties you to nvidia, freesync ties you to AMD and 4k means a remortgage for GPUs that can drive the thing at a reasonable rate. I'll stick with my "non-gaming" 2560x1600 Dell that, surprisingly, I can play games on.