REVIEWS & SOURCES

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Aperture Grille The most comprehensive and detailed reviews of gaming monitors on the internet. YT
Monitor Hunter’s Fact Sheet
RTINGS
TFTCentral
Hardware Unboxed
Jarrod's tech
小雪人评测 Super detailed reviews but in Chinese

Brightness

Measured in nits. One lit candle = one nit
More nits means brighter display
250 nits is the bare minimum for anything but the most budget laptop, most modern laptops have at least 250 nits so this isn’t a big issue.

Resolution

Display are composed of red, green and blue sub pixels grouped together in 3’s to form pixels.
The total number of pixels is known as the resolution. Higher resolution means clearer text, windows and images.

Refresh Rate

How many times the screen refreshes per second
More refreshes = smoother display
Baseline is 60hz on modern displays with gaming laptops going as high as 360hz now

Response time

How fast the display pixels switch colors with each refresh
The slower the response time, the blurrier the display will look in motion.
If the display is slow enough then ghosting will occur, an effect where an object appears to have a trail behind it
Contrast
The difference between the brightness at 100% white and 0% black.
1000:1 and up is good/common, while premium panels using fancier display tech can hit higher contrast

Color Space/Gamut

Displays output a finite amount of the visible color spectrum.
To standard this, color gamuts were created that represent various levels of coverage of the visible light spectrum. Examples include sRGB, Adobe RGB, and DCI-P3
For consumer use sRGB is the main focus, higher the sRGB coverage the better with 100% being perfect
Color Accuracy
How closely the display replicates the gamut as shown above.
Not a measure of total output, rather the deviation at various output levels from 0-100%
Measured on a scale known at DeltaE (various permutations exist but this is a simplified explanation).
Less then 1 is considered perfect and invisible to the naked eye even with the reference color beside it.
Between 1 and 2.3 is considered good for general editing and is invisible to the naked eye unless a reference color is beside it.
Between 2.3 and 4 is considered good for general consumption but is visibly erroneous to the eye even without a reference.
Above 4 is considered not calibrated and generally inaccurate.
Best Buy tv mode is not accurate
Your phone/laptop’s vivid mode is not accurate

Sources for color calibration files ( .ICC ):

How to Install https://pcmonitors.info/articles/using-icc-profiles-in-windows/

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wmic PATH Win32_DesktopMonitor GET PNPDeviceID