Alienware, the specialized gaming division of Dell, is the company that is going to hang the medal for presenting the first monitor with QD-OLED technology. As announced by Dell, the gaming monitor Alienware 34 Curved QD-OLED, AW3423DW, will cost $1.300 in the United States and $1.650 in Canada.
Dell says the monitor will be available in early spring, which means it will be one of the first QD-OLED monitors available for purchase. The announcement of its availability is the first pricing information to be revealed about any QD-OLED screen, including TVs.
QD-OLED will debut on an Alienware monitor
Technology QD-OLED panels it is courtesy of Samsung, which has yet to reveal any pricing information for its own QD-OLED TVs. Recent rumors suggest that they would be having problems with the manufacture of the panels, so there are doubts about their stock when it goes on sale.
The price of the Alienware monitor may suggest that the QD-OLED will be cheaper than the traditional OLED. $1.300 it's significantly cheaper than previous attempts at OLED monitors for games according to Digital Trends, such as the 55-inch OLED, also from Alienware; for $4.000.
It is also speculated that with these prices, they want to imply that QD-OLEDs will be premium monitors for games, but they will not have excessively prohibitive prices. Dell says that the Quantum Dot pixel layer brings greater color uniformity, greater color coverage and higher brightness. The concrete claim is 1.000 nits of maximum brightness and 250 nits of typical brightness. It will have a resolution of 3440 x 1440, 1800R curve and the refresh rate of 175 Hz, along with support for DisplayHDR 400 True Black and G-Sync Ultimate.
Source: Digital Trends
