Editor’s Pick:A.N. Other broken miniLED monitor
What’s going on with monitor makers these days?
miniLED displays, like this one, could soon become common on all kinds of devices.
I’M NOT GOING to reveal the brand responsible for this particular train wreck for reasons that will become clear. But the model in question is a 34-inch ultra-wide with miniLED backlight, 165Hz refresh, and an eye-popping peak HDR luminance spec well into four figures in terms of nits.
Sure enough, it was a sizzler out of the box. At default settings, it was also clear the color saturation was out of whack, but I’ve learned not to panic at that sort of thing. Often there are alternative modes that get the screen running right without the need for calibration. Anyway, I flicked the switch in Windows to enable HDR and it was obvious something was up. At first, I thought it suffered from the same flickering problems that blight the Samsung Neo G9. But this wasn’t the same kind of flickering.