Alienware QD-OLED Monitor
We expected Samsung to hype QD-OLED—the company’s answer to LG OLED—by bringing a fleet of new TVs to CES 2022, but instead, Sony released a flagship QD-OLED TV, and perhaps even more surprisingly, Alienware outfitted a 34-inch monitor with the long-awaited technology.
Alienware’s 34-inch AW3423DW monitor uses a QD-OLED (quantum dot organic light-emitting diode), which blends the perfect blacks and infinite contrast of OLED with vivid colors of quantum dot LED technology.
This 34-inch, 3440 x 1400 display with a 175Hz refresh rate and 0.1-millisecond response time is said to cover 99.3% DCI-P3 color coverage and score a Delta-E color accuracy of below 2.0. Even more impressive is its maximum brightness of 1,000 nits, though I don’t know too many people who like staring at the sun.
Alienware didn’t disclose pricing perhaps because it doesn’t want to scare people away—you can safely assume this monitor will put a hole through your wallet when it ships on March 29. —Phillip Tracy
