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This spring, Dell's 34-inch QD-OLED monitor will cost $1,299.


Dell's Alienware monitor that uses Samsung's quantum dot OLED (QD-OLED) tech will arrive this spring for a surprisingly reasonable $1,299, the company announced via a tweet. Dell first unveiled the curved, 34-inch gaming display at CES promising the ultra-high contrast of OLED displays with improved brightness, color range and uniformity. Dell's Alienware monitor that uses Samsung's quantum dot OLED (QD-OLED) tech will arrive this spring for a surprisingly reasonable $1,299, the company announced via a tweet. Dell first unveiled the curved, 34-inch gaming display at CES promising the ultra-high contrast of OLED displays with improved brightness, color range and uniformity.
That price might not seem cheap, but other OLED monitors can cost much more. LG's 32-inch UltraFine OLED model costs $3,999, and even its 27-inch UltraFine model is $2,999.
The Alienware model has specs more designed for gamers than content creators, though, with 3,440 x 1,440 of resolution, a 175 Hz refresh rate, 99.3 percent DCI-P3 color gamut, 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio and 250 nits of brightness. It also offers HDR, conforming to the minimum DisplayHDR True Black 400 standard for OLED displays.
Samsung's QD-OLED technology uses blue organic light-emitting diodes passed through quantum dots to generate red and green. That compares to standard OLED, which uses blue and yellow OLED compounds. Blue has the strongest light energy, so QD-OLED in theory offers more brightness and efficiency. Other advantages include a longer lifespan, more extreme viewing angles and less potential burn-in.
The technology is new, so how it performs is yet to be seen. The Alienware monitor is coming to market this spring, so we'll learn more then. Sony is also releasing 55- and 65-inch QD-OLED Bravia TVs in the near future.

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