Monday, February 14th 2022
Alienware's 34-inch QD-OLED Monitor Gets a Price
Remember that 34-inch QD-OLED monitor that Alienware announced at CES earlier this year? The company has finally worked out how much it's going to charge for it, although there is still no fixed availability date. At US$1,299 the AW3423DW is going to be a $100 pricier than the AW3821DW, which sports a 38-inch Nano IPS panel with a resolution of 3840x1600, rather than the 34-inch QD-OLED panel with a resolution of 3440x1440 of the AW3423DW.
Obviously the two display technologies aren't comparable, but it's at least an indication of how pricy QD-OLED will be initially, compared to more traditional display technologies. Both displays feature G-Sync Ultimate, so it's not as if Dell has tried to cut any corners here. The AW3423DW does offer a higher refresh rate of 175 Hz vs 144 Hz for the AW3821DW, which may be an advantage to some, but the official HDR certification is oddly enough only HDR 400 vs HDR 600, despite the fact that Dell claims it can deliver up to 1000 cd/m². That said, the black levels of the AW3423DW should be vastly superior, as should the colour gamut. The display is said to be available sometime early this spring, presumably in the US market first.
Sources:
@Alienware, via TFT Central
Obviously the two display technologies aren't comparable, but it's at least an indication of how pricy QD-OLED will be initially, compared to more traditional display technologies. Both displays feature G-Sync Ultimate, so it's not as if Dell has tried to cut any corners here. The AW3423DW does offer a higher refresh rate of 175 Hz vs 144 Hz for the AW3821DW, which may be an advantage to some, but the official HDR certification is oddly enough only HDR 400 vs HDR 600, despite the fact that Dell claims it can deliver up to 1000 cd/m². That said, the black levels of the AW3423DW should be vastly superior, as should the colour gamut. The display is said to be available sometime early this spring, presumably in the US market first.
135 Comments on Alienware's 34-inch QD-OLED Monitor Gets a Price
When?
Really looking forward to the tech though. MicroLED is having some serious issues rn and it hasn't even come out yet.
Look up Samsung's The Wall.
While this 34" model from Alienware is tempting, I'm more interested in the rumored 30" panel that's suppose to be also manufactured by Samsung Display. Here's hoping we will get UHD variant so it will offer better compatibility with consoles. Otherwise I'll just grab an ultrawide for PC and a 55" TV for PS5 and movies.
@nguyen @R-T-B what do you think?same... its between these two, thats 100%
DisplayHDR 400 is a surprise considering the 1000nits peak and the fact that DisplayHDR True Black 400 exists. Ideally and according to the specs they are talking about, this should be DisplayHDR 1000 certified or even better, DisplayHDR True Black 600. For some reason it is not.
Image retention concerns?
Everything I've seen said this monitor is DisplayHDR True Black 400.
This even has gsync ultimate!? I missed that detail during ces, that's easily 200$ on the price tag, it's looking really good for other afordable options. Let's hope they don't drag their feets for more than a year until they bring regular UHD panels to market! And skip the gsync and give us true hdmi 2.1 (since the naming debacle...)
And smart menus when you push OSD buttons filled with ads and half working functions.
And constant updates and connectivity issues.
PLEASE, let me pay more to avoid that shit.
Nice panel. Too bad about the marketing :D
One of the lines in the vid:
'Hi, what do you do?'
'I'm a Youtuber'
This species is fked.
Stop making stuff like this up, as it hasn't happened and will likely never happen, since for one, most monitors don't have network connectivity.
Its gray area now, just you wait. You've already provided the caveat: 'most monitors' don't have network connectivity.
I was responding to Khonjel who asked why we are paying a relatively high price for monitors - its exactly because they DON't have the mentioned 'features'.
I think you misread or misinterpreted.