Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Checking out the Pixio PX277 OLED Max!”.
Today’S the day, I’m unboxing a pixio monitor this is the pixio px277 OED Max and O and Max it is. This is a very exciting day because OLED is entering the mainstream and I’m here for it all right. So the first thing that you have to understand about OLED is that it is the promised land of display technology, at least when everything is correct. We don’t have high hopes for pixio. We don’t know we’re going to take a look up till now.
There was twisted pneumatic that was the first one that was TN. That was the sort of the first LCD panel that started supplanting the old giant glass CRTs, and then there was VA and IPS well, depending on who you ask the order of LCD technology is not that exactly IPS was known for its vibrant colors, but it couldn’t Do Inky, blacks, very well Inky blacks was a bit of a challenge for IPs because you had to put so much light through the panel. When you ask the panel to display black, it wasn’t able to absorb all of the color coming from the light behind it. But the uh really high quality displays that Apple became known for in the IMAX of yester year. Those were all IPS, TN and VA have improved over time, as has IPS. Historically, TN panels were the fastest panels, meaning they could change their their pixels uh things went a little tit, fortat between uh, VN, VA and and TN over the years.
Ips panels that are modern have also gotten insanely fast, but nothing beats OLED because it is a fundamentally different technology. It is emissive, meaning that the light is coming from the pixel on the panel, as opposed to a light behind a panel of pixels that has to shine through uh pixels that become varyingly, opaque or transparent. Depending on what they’re doing and depending on the color and everything else in the Box, you get a substantial power. Brick 168 WTS contrast this with a modern LCD display and a modern LCD display at 2560 X 1440.
The resolution of this panel 15 watts 7 Watts something in that range, but that also means I’m hoping that I will be able to burn my retinas with the Glorious light emission technology in this display. It has more packaging than any other type of pixio. Monitor that we’ve been getting in and look at that it’s thick, not only is it thick – has kind of a metal back plate on the back of it to deal with heat generation. I imagine got a standard 100 mimet Visa Mount, so you can put it on a monitor arm and because the weighty power brick is external that helps you use more affordable, monitor arms because they didn’t put all the weight in the monitor.
Usually I like having this built in, but not in the case where the monitor’s kind of heavy. This is also a panel that Gamers as well as content creation, Specialists and uh artists, and things like that are going to be interested in and, and so it seems, like. Pixio has dialed down a little bit of their gamer aesthetic, but I really do like the metal foot plastic stand stand and it is also High adjustable for inputs. It has display port type-c and two HDMI. It’S a maximum refresh of 240 HZ which it’s LED and it really will be 240 HZ. It’S amazing.
It also has a built-in 5 GB USB hub and so there’s a 5 gbit type B port for input in terms of bundled cables. They give you a USB cable, a display port, cable and HDMI cable, as well as a power cord for onscreen controls. There’S just a single hat switch at the back of the display on this side. So you have to reach around and sort of use that to control the monitor the viewing angles are perfect: the color it’s it’s like 99, something per of the DCI.
P3 gamut, 100 % of the srgb coverage. I mean this is just if you’re that into things you can get a color, calibrator and calibrated, but again OLED, there’s other features built in like a KVM. You can have two things connected to this, like a laptop and your actual desktop computer through display port or HDMI, and it makes it easy to switch the inputs, but it’ll also switch USB. So you can use the built-in USB hub, so you have one computer.
That’S coming with video and USB over USBC. The bad news is that that’s not going to work at 240 HZ, there’s just there’s not enough bandwidth to do that, and then your other computer can be display port and a USB typeb connection uh and the monitor makes it easy to switch. So you don’t need a physical KVM. It’S built in bad news is, is that it does have a few quirks.
It’S not a perfect KVM solution like we’ve seen on other monitors, but it is reasonable for reasonable expectations of how you’re going to use that so good job pixio. To give you an idea of how ridiculous OLED technology is, in general, check out the contrast, slider the gamma correction, slider on Boulder’s Gate, I’m at the very low end here adjust this to where it’s barely visible. Well, we’ve almost bottomed out the slider. If you go any further, it actually seems to delete the texture, or maybe that’s a rendering artifact.
I don’t know, but look how low the gamma slider has to be in order for the uh darkest image to be invisible. It’S nuts, but this is normal for an OLED type panel on this Chase squares test. This is the best result we’ve ever had for a normal computer monitor, because this is the first OLED computer monitor I’ve tested, OLED displays, I’ve also tested, and it is a similar result from them, but 240 HZ. This is the fastest OLED I’ve ever tested.
It’S Madness. 40 HZ 2560. X440. Look at that now, first generation OLED computer monitor! Not really I mean this is technically like eighth or ninth generation, OLED technology.
It’S just making its way into a computer display, but it still got some quirks when you first take the monitor out of the box, at least if it’s configured like mine, was it’s in game mode and in game mode. When you have a window like this, that’s kind of dark, and then you have another window, that’s kind of light colored when you move them around, the panel itself will change from Bright to dark, and this is a mechanical part of the panel. This is something that you run into on television, so I don’t know if you can see this, but it gets brighter and darker the wider and less wide that I make it on game mode. It’S especially noticeable I’ve taken it out of game mode and when you take it out of game mode in the onc screen display, it gives you some other options in terms of brightness and contrast like you can actually control, brightness and contrast.
And if the brightness and contrast is not turned up all the way, the effect is either off or less noticeable, but this is not a typical for OED type panels. This is one of the strategies I guess for managing aspects of panel wear under other settings. You also have a panel run times menu, which shows that you know we’ve just been running a like few dozen hours. It’S not a big deal under the advanced settings.
There’S also screen care and Screen deep care. Uh screen deep care is on auto by default and Screen care is on auto by default as well. There’S also a screen saver, which is 15 minutes. So if the display hasn’t really changed much in 15 minutes and the computer’s not going to put it to sleep, the display will put itself to sleep in 15 minutes just to save the panel cuz.
The longer the panel is on the more it wears there. The the danger with this kind of uh panel is that if it displays the same image for a very very, very long time, it will burn in there’s another resource website. You can look for this kind of things. It’S called arings, arings arings. I think that’s what it is and they have OLED TVs that have uh uh gone through a process over many many many hours, and so you can look at that and get an idea of what OED burning looks like now. I’Ve been running an OLED display for three almost four years and uh. It’S okay. I’Ve been running it at a lower brightness, it’s still really bright and I’m still very satisfied with the brightness 120 HZ refresh again as a display. So I’m expecting this panel.
If you treat it well, you should be able to get three or four years out of it. No problem before I go through a cleaning, pixel cleaning process or anything like that. You do start start to see splotches on the display.
So, there’s always something in the the middle of the display and it’s like on a full white display like this. You might see something in here just like it’s almost like Shadows within the panel, so the panel will wear, but this is only after years and years of use, so that will be accelerated if you’ve got the brightness turned up the way, keep in mind, but pixio Also has a very good warranty and that’s also why they have a power on counter in the display. So they know it’s like okay, you just ran the display 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 3 years. That’S why I did this if no LED panel is inexpensive enough and you amortize the cost over two or three years, and it’s like: oh it cost me, you know 50 cents a day to have this level of image gloriousness and response time.
Ah, it’s probably worth it. That was the decision I made with the O when I bought the OED monitor. I think it was like 1,000 $ 100. For that I was it’s like okay.
If it dies in 3 years, I don’t care. The panel is just too glorious to deal with. Obviously, your situation may be different. Now I don’t know if you noticed in some of the b-roll, but whenever we were playing a free sync game, it was always showing 240 Herz well using the other high-speed photography discovered something interesting about this panel, which is typical for an OLED television, but is a Typical for computer displays – and that is even though this is freesync and even though AMD is evaluating the freesync premium status of this monitor, I haven’t uh found amd’s official verification of it.
The display always runs at 240 HZ, even when you’re sending it a non 240 HZ signal. What does that mean in Practical terms? Well, in the OSD display you set a uh setting, which is a low latency mode, and then you get lag 13 milliseconds before it starts displaying, but check this out by the time it’s done displaying the frame 16 milliseconds have passed, which is how long it should Be when we’re talking about 60 milliseconds on a frame, so 16 milliseconds is as fast as it could possibly display a 1080p frame, so this Frame is aligned with the last part of the display. This 13 millisecond display before it starts displaying is because it is going to display this frame in a tiny amount of time. 4 milliseconds.
Basically, this display being 240 frames, a second to make the math easy. Let’S round up and say 250 displays per second, which gives you 4 milliseconds to actually display the frame so 13, 14, 15, 16 and change it starts displaying the frame as soon as it can to run the panel at 240 HZ. So, even though you’re sending a variable signal to it like when you send a 120 HZ signal to it or when you send something like that, the display is going to display the frame in 1 240th of a second and in case you’re wondering the USBC Port. Does support charging it’s only up to 65 Watts, most of our power brick budget going to this display just blasting you in the face with color, so nice it is one of the more expensive displays the pixio has.
It is 2560 x440 and not 4K, but it’s an actual computer monitor with premium features to boot. I like this display, but I’m a biased a little bit toward OLED, like I really just I like OLED as a display panel. This is firmware version 1.0. I suspect we will see some firmware updates from pixio, but I can’t really point to anything specific that I would change immediately in the display in gamer mode.
You can’t control the brightness and contrast. Maybe that’s the only thing that I would complain about, but if you go to user mode, you can borrow all the settings from gamer mode and set the brightness and contrast, and I like to run the display at a lower brightness just because it is so bright. Exceptions for HDR content notwithstanding, but this is a very nice job, pixio good work, I’m what this level one I’m signing out. If I miss miss anything or you have any questions or anything, let me know hit me up in the Forum all right, I’m signing out and I’ll see you there .