28-Inches of TUF Gaming: The ASUS VG289Q 4K IPS Monitor w/ DCI-P3 & FreeSync

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• EliteRetard - Friday, November 15, 2019 - link

  Why?
  
  28" 4k 60Hz monitors have already been around for like 5 years.
  This brings absolutely nothing new or interesting, why introduce it at all?
  Unless they are reducing the retail price to the common sale price around $200.

• nevcairiel - Friday, November 15, 2019 - link

  I agree, it lacks proper HDR brightnessm and the specs are nothing special for this day.
  
  I wish they would make a proper 27/28" 1440p 144Hz+ HDR1000 screen instead (16:9 and non-curved please), that seems to be a gap in the market as everyone is doing 4K now.

• nevcairiel - Friday, November 15, 2019 - link

  For example the Acer Predator X27 had excellent HDR brightness, but its 4K and as such limited by DP/HDMI bandwidth, and it also fell short in some other categories - unfortunately.

• thegpuguy - Tuesday, August 25, 2020 - link

  First of all, the human eye could not see HDR1000 on a 28' fully - it would be to bright and have to be toned down and second, true cinema HDR1000 needs dynamic lighting zones which would be nearly 1500.00+ and 2 monitors have this spec exist.
  
  for Consoles and Affordable 4K content this is price point and IPS panel is amazing

• Killshotgn - Friday, November 15, 2019 - link

  4k 60hz isn't ideal for a lot of people. If you play any competitive games you are better served by higher refresh rates. 1440p 144hz is a great middle ground being easier to push higher frames with while offering very noticeably better visuals then 1080p. I personally would almost always take a good 1080p or 1440p 144hz screen over a 4k 60hz.

• flyingpants265 - Friday, November 15, 2019 - link

  1440p 144hz is what we should all be aiming for, or even 120hz for now. That's about 4x more data than 1080p 60z, or almost 2x at 60hz. 4k was purely for movies, and apparently nobody even cared about 4k blu-rays..

• TEAMSWITCHER - Sunday, November 17, 2019 - link

  If you play competitive games, you should be turning off all the advanced rendering, which means that image quality isn't a factor.. and the "High Refresh Rate" displays with their crappy panels, and single back light are great for you..
  
  But if the games you play are more "atmospheric" rendering quality and eye candy are what you SHOULD be focusing on. Even with an RTX 2080ti these features can drop framrates way below 144 fps.. often below 80 fps.. In this case you are far better off with a 60fps 4K TV with local dimming than a crappy PC display. Most PC's have a crappy IPS displays, with terrible black levels.. I mean .. THEY SSUUCCKK!! If you care at all about image quality, those high FPS displays will do nothing but provide more crappy images every second..

• lilkwarrior - Monday, November 18, 2019 - link

  You’re better off with a HDMI 2.1 OLED TV ATM, LG’s C9+ w/ G-Sync

• Zoolook13 - Wednesday, November 20, 2019 - link

  It has no G-sync module, please don't fall for Nvidias tricks.
  It's HDMI VRR, it could just as easily have been Freesync branded.

• lilkwarrior - Monday, November 18, 2019 - link

  Those are all high-end feature you listed. This isn’t a high end display.
  
  If it were it would be a ROG monitor w/ HDR1000, 4K@144hz via DSC, & MiniLED or OLED. That monitor is easily $1500+. Asus already have a $2000 monitor providing this for almost 2 years now.
  
  Next year they have proper successors such as the PA32UCG wi/ 1152 MiniLED zones, HDR1400 (monitor actually goes 1600 nite, HDMI 2.1 VRR, Thunderbolt 3, & actually proper HDR formats support to take advantage of those nits with Dolby Vision, HLG, & HDR10