Practically it reduces eyestrain. For me personally it gives me enough light that my living room (where the crib with a sleeping baby). Otherwise the room is just illuminated by what is happening on screen which is not good for the baby or my eyes.
Like you definitely need a lot less than than the internet recommended.
I’ll take a picture tomorrow night with the current bad setup.
Like Rudie said, eye strain, but also enhances the perception of contrast on a relatively low contrast display in a dark room. IPS LCD panels benefit especially.
Those being TV USB ports or LED USB Strings? What’s the danger here?
LED USB strings, can draw more than the USB2 voltage, depending on what your TV USB ports provide you might have to be careful
CAREFUL HOW?
Are they going to stop working? Break the TV? Burn the house down?
it would be a shame if something…bad were to happen either because of or to your LED light strips and or television
Yeah, one of the main reasons I went with a radeon 5600xt for my recent build was because I can just use the open source drivers that the kernel already has. I’ve been happy with it so far in both Linux and Windows. Plus, I’m getting tired of Nvidia’s proprietary nonsense.
Plus, all these cards are too damn expensive! The 5600xt was somewhat reasonably priced.
We get 4 paragraphs about AMD’s ARM infrastructure that means you should wait 4 months before you buy RAM and this question’s answer is a dang famicom NPC.
Hit you head at Witches Peak
Felix
edit: this is meant to be said in a loving manner.
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I got that asus monitor, or I guess a recently updated version of the same model, and it’s nice to have hdr and vrr support and whatnot finally but it’s also enough to make me swear off ips lcds. it’s constant eye searing brightness, and I can’t figure out how to get the brightness setting ungreyed out in the menu. and I thought the thing with ips was supposed to be better viewing angles over tn panels but I have to have my head placed just right to not have some corner of the thing glowing. and I miss the 16:10 ar. also I can’t believe I see people saying go with 32 inch monitors all the time this thing is 27 and it’s almost too big, especially with the glowing corners.
hdr is confusing too. I guess I can’t use hdr in a window? and if I have my tv on and play a uhd movie on it the monitor will turn on hdr mode and be washed out but the movie will be playing on my tv and the colors will be fine even though I have that tv set in madvr to not do tone mapping so it should be washed out looking so I’m not even sure what’s going on there.
from here on out it’s going to have to be some perfect microled display or nothing
IGNORANCE KILLS
WISDOM ELEVATES
Yeah, I have a 27" monitor (1440p) and that’s as big as I’ll ever go I’m sure. It’s also super bright. Most of the time I have it set at 40/100 brightness because at night it would otherwise be blindingly bright. Only on very sunny days do I turn it up all the way if I’m playing a dark game. Desktop/office stuff is still fine at the lower brightness during the day.
I’m excited for 4k + HDR + super high hz rates all coming together in one monitor though. I guess some monitors like that exist already at prices way outside of my range… But then I’ll need an even more powerful graphics card than even the newest RTX30XX to make the best of it, so this is all very far in the future…
Definitely turn off HDR if it’s too bright. The brightness setting is greyed out because cranking the backlight is how they achieve some semblance of white point tone mapping.
I use “Racing” Mode with a R89, G95, B100 and ELMB Sync on for backlight strobing (which, incidentally, will roughly halve the brightness).
A VA panel would be better for watching media for sure, it’s just very poor at motion above 60hz.
I still leave Windows HDR off unless I’m launching an HDR game or media. I think Microsoft recently opened an API call into it, so you should be able to set up a hotkey command (through AutoHotkey) to do so, but I’m pretty fast at win key->“HDR”->hitting the toggle switch
If you’d prefer to leave it on, you can use the slider in that setting menu to lower the base brightness of SDR content, which, like Doolittle said, the monitor refuses to do because HDR is content-defined brightness
I have it off normally in the windows setting, it comes on automatically if I put on a movie or game with hdr, I just meant when I watch a movie with it if I go to a window it’s back to washed out looking until I go back to full screen
I have no idea what madvr is and I’ve never wanted to learn but I know that, with my desktop monitors all not supporting HDR at all and my projector having HDR permanently enabled,
mpv will always properly tonemap down to SDR colours on any display
and VLC will always properly display HDR on the HDR display, fullscreen or no
I have my monitor on fuckin 15 percent brightness. I’m very light sensitive, at that size of display anything over 20 would eventually make me nauseous
ok vlc doesn’t turn hdr mode on it’s own like mpc but if I turn hdr on manually in windows settings beforehand the picture in vlc looks correct full screen or windowed. of course nothing else looks right until I switch it off
I found that my projector looks OK with the SDR brightness slider at around 77% with HDR always on
it’s definitely not like, colour accurate at that point though, if it were my main monitor I probably couldn’t deal
