Asus PA32DC Real User Verdict: Worth It for Colorists?

60 fps and HDR400.. yep sticking with the LG oled tv again.

Seeing this I wonder when OLED becomes mainstream, aka cheaper, in monitors of regular size, e.g. currently 27" for QHD and 34" for UWQHD.

I find it interesting that OLED tech is just starting to breakthrough in monitors, however it's not unusual to see OLED laptop panels and they don't necessarily jack up the price by exorbitant amounts, either.

That actually probably has more to do with OEMs asking for them. Laptops come with displays, towers don't. So it makes sense for OEMs to shop for high end display options for their premium laptops. Whereas I'm sure most businesses shopping for desktops with either want the cheapest monitors, use older ones, or purchase them separately. There's also the volume aspect, laptops are a bigger market than desktops.

Peak brightness has never been a strength of OLED's. They get their contrast from going really dark, not really bright. Best in dim rooms.

Said company was bought by the Chinese. TCL and their display subdivision CSOT to be precise. They plan to introduce displays with printed panels made from JOLED tools in 2024/25.

If I was some kind of rich idiot, I'd absolutely be buying this. For entirely selfish reasons. Some productivity reasons, but frankly almost entirely selfish. But I am not. I really can't wait for this tech to truly mature, gaining HFR, adaptive sync yadayada, and hit an affordable price. The future is nearly here.

Yay! can't wait to pay 5000$ for this. We really need OLED to be more mainstream already.

I recently upgraded to a 32" 4K monitor and I will never go back to 27".

Misses the mark if this isnt 120 hz imo.

The high brightness isn't used for every shot, it's a little like when a movie sounds low, you need to make space for the loud explosions, it can't be turned up to 10 all the time.

It's fuckin ProArt, so probably around 8-10k?

I wonder if a 1440p will ever be made OLED. This is what I want. With 144hz+, of course.

Wish I could convince my job to get one of these for me but my work isn't truly color sensitive enough to warrant it. The auto calibrate feature seems very nice.

The benefit of Oled and mini led hdr is mostly the really deep blacks you can get from them rather than overall brightness. It really is lovely.

When you see the monitor hood, you know it's gonna be overpriced.

Innocn still sells a monitor with the same 32" JOLED panel, and for around $1,000 USD.

We may see this change a bit if Samsung's QD-OLED is any good.

I have the Philips one and it's the best monitor I ever had. Even bought a second one as replacement for the current one in case of burn in but it's still fine after 4000 hours.

Written review available at pcmonitors.info/reviews/asus-pa32dc/ — one of the most thorough out there.

Oh man, this thing is gonna be INSANELY expensive. Will probably be more expensive than a 75" OLED.

The 32" LG OLED monitor costs $3999, this would probably be similarly priced. Give or take $250-500 in my opinion.

Useless for gamers, but hopefully this paves the way for a proper 32" 4k 120hz+ OLED with hardware g-sync in a couple years.

And only $4000….

Sheesh would be nice with like 200 more nits peak. And like 60% of the price. Also i prefer 4k 27" but i see that a lot of ppl are enjoying 32 now.

Interesting timing, I was looking for a used LG 32EP950 in the last few days, found there is not a single unit for sale in my country, new or used. This is probably why. They stopped making this panel altogether.

I've been looking and thinking about whether it's sensible for me to buy one in the past weeks, I've seen three go so far for a few hundred more or less than 1400 euros on eBay, lots of us are looking for these specs.

It is not a monitor intended for gamers, we offer an expansive lineup of monitors under our ROG SWIFT, ROG STRIX, and TUF GAMING series for gamers.

Is this the first display available that supposedly can output 12 bit color depth? Granted it's dithered, but even at 30Hz, I'd say this is pretty big. At 12 bits, there should be no perceptible color banding I'd imagine. Review also says price is $4,000+.

It might be advantageous to reach out to the manufacturer for support on the matter. If you bought this recently this should obviously be covered via warranty.

As a creator / gamer myself I'm waiting for that perfect blend of the two. Until then lack of high refresh rates / lack of HDR and G-sync or Freesync is a deal breaker.

I would kill for a 32", 4K OLED, 120-144hz with support for freesync/GSYNC.

This is printed RGB OLED panel from JOLED, fundamentally different from LGD's WRGB OLED.

Yeah they can fuck right off with that sort of price.

It's a professional monitor aimed at those who need colour accuracy for their work. It's reasonably priced for what it does compared to some of the LCD monitors in the same range.

Yes, in my case the solution was to apply a firmware update to the latest version. You may have to contact ASUS customer support to get the URL for the firmware download.

I finally got the firmware to update and there's no longer a buzz. But now when I calibrate to rec709 it's really crunched compared to what it should be.

I tried contacting Amazon support and I was passed around. In the end they basically offered to return the product, which is what I am going to do. I have an external calibrator and for some reason it only achieves 95% P3. I'm also not doing HDR so there is basically zero reason for me to keep this monitor. Blacks on OLED are nice but on a day to day basis I don't quite feel a big difference from a regular IPS monitor.

How have you calibrated it? And have you validated the output through the Decklink?

Check your levels and other settings in output section in resolve project settings and timeline settings pages, sometimes timeline settings are enabled and project settings won't take effect, in resolve 19 it shows a warning but in previous version it doesn't.

This review is absolutely best in class!