Tag Archives: HDR

It has been a long two years but the ASUS ROG Swift PG35VQ is finally ready to launch. The 35-inch ultrawide 200Hz monitor was first unveiled back in 2017 and has been brought back to several trade shows since with no word on the retail launch. Now, the monitor is …

Today in the heart of NYC, Acer rounded up journalists to launch a slew of new products, from gaming peripherals and laptops, to full desktop systems and monitors. In this article, we’ll be going over the launch of the Predator Orion 5000 desktop PC and the new Predator Large Format …

AOC unveiled its AGON 3 Series of curved gaming displays at Gamescom last year, catering to both G-Sync and FreeSync users. Tentative release windows ran a little over schedule, but the wait is almost over as AOC reveals pricing and availability for the AG273QCX and AG273QCG. While both the AGON …

CES 2019 is off to a great start, we’ve already seen some interesting new announcements from ASUS for laptops and GPUs, but those aren’t the only things drawing our attention this week. ASUS is also launching three brand new ROG monitors, each one with a big display, high refresh rate, …

CES is coming up in just a few days time but it looks like Samsung wants to get a jump on the announcements. This week, Samsung unveiled its next 32:9 display, the CRG9, offering a big resolution upgrade over the previous generation CHG90. The CHG90 is Samsung’s 49-inch super-wide display, …

Android boxes are a dime a dozen nowadays, with relatively unknown brands wanting a slice of the pie. None offer the premium experience of the Nvidia Shield TV, which is shedding a little of its price in time for Black Friday. Designed as a gaming and television hybrid device, Nvidia’s …

Aside from the new Mixed Reality headset launch, Acer had more to show off at IFA today. The company has also announced two new gaming monitors sporting 4K resolution, HDR and a 144Hz refresh rate. Better yet, there is a version for G-Sync and another for FreeSync. First up is …

While TV makers have been pushing for HDR content for a number of years, console and video game makers only just started getting on board in late 2016. The launches of the Xbox One X and PS4 Pro has pushed HDR gaming to the forefront and now, even more major …

AOC established its AGON line of monitors in 2016, catering to esports enthusiasts. This began with the AG271QX and AG271QG each sporting 144Hz FreeSync and G-Sync respectively, while its 2017 second generation upped things to 240Hz. Now, its AGON 3 Series packs 27-inch curved QHD displays with high-dynamic-range. Until now, …

Sky Q is pretty much the best (and most expensive) TV experience in the UK. With already a vast choice of 4K content to choose from, Sky is the leader when it comes to 4K TV content availability. Sky is looking to improve further by adding HDR support next year, …

Adaptive-Sync technologies like G-Sync and Freesync have really taken the gaming monitor industry by storm. While FreeSync is cheap for monitor makers to implement due to its open-source nature, G-Sync is a little more complicated. In the early days of G-Sync, Nvidia’s proprietary module would add extra cost to manufacturing, …

HDR is a feature that must be seen to be believed, offering fantastic colour depth that is simply unrivalled by SDR screens. Soon, you will start to see HDR10+ rated panels as manufacturers now have access to a royalty-free programme that will allow them to prove their TVs match the …

Ever since the first Ultra-HD/4K gaming monitors began hitting the market, there has been a good chunk of enthusiasts waiting for higher refresh rate options to come down the pipeline. We already know that Nvidia has its own plans to usher in the age of 4K/144Hz gaming, but it looks …

At CES last year, Asus and Acer made a big splash by showing off the first 4K/144Hz gaming monitors with plans to launch them both later on in 2017. Unfortunately, delays got in the way, as they occasionally do. During March at GDC, we got a brief update on that …

It’s a stylish, flicker-free 28in 4K UHD display with a 1ms response time, AMD FreeSync and HDR 10 support.

After some lengthy delays, we may finally see the first 4K/144Hz, HDR and G-Sync monitors hit the market.

With CES coming up next week, we are expecting a lot of announcements from many companies throughout the tech world. This year though, LG has decided to sneak a couple in early, first we saw the largest 8K OLED TV unveiled and today, LG has begun showing off its new …

Narrowing the choice of displays has always been a difficult process, with customers having to factor in resolution, refresh rate, size for its relative pixel-per-inch and many other nitty gritty details that lead to the optimal experience. To lighten the load, VESA has attempted to give a clearer definition of …

During the iPhone launch keynote, Apple shed some light on the future of its Apple TV range. With competition already offering a range of 4K enabled products, Apple are playing catch-up by finally introducing Apple TV 4K, complete with the high 3840 × 2160 pixel count and HDR functionality. Roku …

This week, Dell launched its new U2518D monitor, the first to offer ‘Dell HDR’, alongside a crisp 2560×1440 IPS panel. It sounds good in theory but don’t be fooled by the ‘Dell HDR’ marketing ploy, as this monitor is far from being able to offer the brightness, bit-depth and color …

Sony has been pushing 4K resolution and High-Dynamic Range for a while now with TVs and consoles. However, today at MWC, Sony pushed the technology even further, adding a 5.5-inch 4K/HDR display to its new flagship smartphone- the Xperia XZ Premium. This is the world’s first smartphone to sport both …

If you have upgraded to an Ultra-HD TV in the last year or two, then chances are it supports High-Dynamic Range (HDR) technology, which boosts the colour spectrum and enhances contrast ratios. However, right now, there isn’t a ton of HDR-supported content available, which YouTube hopes to change as the …

While the PS4 Pro is Sony’s biggest announcement in recent months, it did reveal a minor detail during the debut of that generation-and-a-half system: that all PS4s would soon support HDR lighting. It will come as part of a firmware update in the near future, presumably around the November launch …

HDMI Forum, an organization that manages the HDMI standard development, this week release HDMI 2.0a specification, which adds support for high-dynamic range video medatada flags to the standard. Members of the organization can start to add HDMI 2.0a into their products now. The specification has been updated to enable transmission …