Perhaps the worst offender I've ever seen was the Mafia remake by Hangar 17, which loads every time with a sequence of studio logos with white backgrounds that cut from black. The RGB(255,255,255) backgrounds get stretched to maximum HDR nits, and the jump from RGB(0,0,0) (especially on an OLED) is absolutely eye-searing.
I literally had to close my eyes whenever I'd load the game.
Of course there are individual wonky sites which will still flash but if applicable, those two things should reduce the occurrences significantly.
Why would it be any more impactful on OLED than any given FALD display capable of putting out >1000 nits sustained?
Perceived intensity in HDR is dominated by luminance, not just contrast ratios on paper.
OLEDs do have effectively infinite contrast (since black pixels are off) and it's why I love them, but that doesn’t inherently make white flashes more intense on them via any other display type unless the peak brightness is also there to support it.
Or in other words, a 800 nit flash on OLED is going to be less intense than a 1600 nit one on a FALD LCD. Brightness is the bigger factor in how harsh or impactful that flash will feel, not just the contrast ratio.
It's not down to your panel technology in this case, but the limitation of any given panels peak and sustained brightness capabilities.
This kind of scenario is in fact where FALD is strong. OLED really starts to pull ahead in more complex scenes where the zone counts simply can’t match up to per pixel control.
I love OLED's motion clarity (I still use CRTs, that’s how much I care). But I dislike its inability to maintain brightness at larger window sizes and VRR flicker is a dealbreaker across the board.
My FALD display on the other hand, delivers the most jaw dropping HDR image I've ever seen, producing an image so spectacular it's the biggest graphical/image jump iver seen in greater than a decade, but its motion resolution is garbage and yes, in some specific content, you'll get some minor blooming. It's nice that it doesnt have VRR flicker though.
My OLEDs win for motion, my FALD wins for HDR + lack of VRR flicker, it's very unfortunate that there’s no perfect display tech right now. Since most of my content is bright (games), I’m happy to trade some blooming in starfields for overall better performance across the other 80% of content. Other peoples content will differ, like perhaps they love horror games, and will choose the OLED for the opposite reason and I'd get that too.
I still use OLED in the living room though, it doesnt seend the kind of abusive usage my monitors do and OLED TVs are way brighter than OLED monitors, not as bright as i'd like, but bright enough i'm not gonna go out and replace it with a FALD, not until the new Sony based stuff drops at the very least.
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