Dell UltraSharp 32″ HDR PremierColor Monitor

[rand thompson]

Dell UltraSharp 32″ HDR PremierColor Monitor


By
MATTHEW ALLARD ACS
For Newsshooter

Will be available on November the 5th for $4,999.99 USD.

Article
https://www.newsshooter.com/2020/10/07/dell-ultrasharp-32-hdr-premiercolor-monitor/

 

[Mike P.]

That’s kinda dope, right? I hope it can hold its own. 4k, HDR, 10bit, 1000nit, 99.8% accurate DCI-P3, built-in calman... *wish it was* half the price of Apple’s.

 

[rand thompson]

That’s kinda dope, right? I hope it can hold its own. 4k, HDR, 10bit, 1000nit, 99.8% accurate DCI-P3, built-in calman... and half the price of Apple’s.

I hope so as well Mike. The built-in Calman Calibration without needing to be plugged into a computer sounds great as well. But we'll have to see how well it actually works.

 

[Blair S. Paulsen]

That’s kinda dope, right? I hope it can hold its own. 4k, HDR, 10bit, 1000nit, 99.8% accurate DCI-P3, built-in calman... and half the price of Apple’s.

Did you actually read the article? Matthew writes: "The Apple Pro Display XDR comes in at a similar price, but it does have a lot higher resolution (6016 x 3384) than the Dell. However, it doesn’t come with a stand or self-calibration. The Pro Display XDR is also a lot brighter (1,500 nits) and a lot lighter (16.49 lb / 7.48 kg (without Stand)) than the Dell."

I think the Dell could be popular in the $2,000-2,500 segment. At $5K I'm shopping FSI, Sony, etc.

To Dell's credit, I'm thrilled to see the integrated CalMan feature and hope that self-calibration becomes standard on pro monitors going forward. Will it be as precise as a proper calibration by a trained calibrator - likely not. That said, assuming it does a credible job, it allows me to trust what I'm seeing - no small thing.

Cheers - #19

 

[Mike P.]

Did you actually read the article? Matthew writes: "The Apple Pro Display XDR comes in at a similar price, but it does have a lot higher resolution (6016 x 3384) than the Dell. However, it doesn’t come with a stand or self-calibration. The Pro Display XDR is also a lot brighter (1,500 nits) and a lot lighter (16.49 lb / 7.48 kg (without Stand)) than the Dell."

I think the Dell could be popular in the $2,000-2,500 segment. At $5K I'm shopping FSI, Sony, etc.

True (re:$2500). And no, not really (I went straight to the specs/accuracy claims).

For some reason I thought Apple’s was like ~7500 without stand (which is actually what it is in CAD). Also I was under the impression Apple’s still wasn’t fully 10bit, but 8+2, making it less ideal... TBH I didn’t really look hard at the XDR after seeing the price tag of just the stand.

I’m hoping that Dell (more than Apple) will trickle the calman/quality tech down to a $2k product... 24” maybe? Or maybe 2k/17” (for both field monitor and as a broadcast/colour accurate panel)?

 

[Jeffery Anderson]

you're paying for the 2000 diming zones, much I assume is like a HDR/High Nit version of OLED

The backlighting consists of an array of 576 LEDs that can sustain a brightness level of 1000 cd/m² and can even reach up to 1600 cd/m² for a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio to truly emphasize the differences between light and dark.

FSI does have the xm310k, a 2000 led diming 4K panel for $25,000, but it's 1000-3000nits

 

[rand thompson]

Like Jeffery stated, the 2000 diming zones is what adds to the price.

From the Flanders website Jeffery provided

2000 led dimming zones

500 led dimming zones

The 1600nits for apple display would help over the 1000nits Dell if you were color grading in a brightly lit room or somehow as part of a DIT cart. I would use it in a dimly lit room. There's a difference but not a gigantic difference. And if I use this with Davinci Resolve instead of as a external display monitor to check for accurate colors, I don't know about apple, but I think the 4K UHD display would scale text better than a 6k screen on a PC.

They both are about $5000, but you would need the stand for the apple display which is an additional $1000. Unless you were planning on mounting it on the wall.

 

[Blair S. Paulsen]

Thanx Jeffery and Rand for the notes on LED dimming zones. It's particularly interesting since the XDR got dinged for haloing artifacts in dark surrounds - something easily seen in the Flanders A/B images above. Fortunately, most scenes would not exhibit as much bleed as the high contrast example of the juggler, but it's still an issue.
Would love to see a side by side in person, someday...

Cheers - #19

 

[rand thompson]

Blair,

Yeah, I think a side-by-side of the Dell against other monitors in this price range would be a better indicator than just specs. But If it lives up to the specs, that would make it a good bang for the buck in the lower-end of professional accurate grading monitors. It's not one of those $50,000+ monitors used to grade HDR feature Films with but it'll do.

 

[Daniel Bichler]

How would you compare it against the Asus PA32UCX-K?

 

[rand thompson]

Daniel,


There's not alot of technical specs available for The Dell, however this is about what we do know



ASUS ProArt PA32UCX-K

Price about $4500

4K UHD(3840 X 2160)

1200 NITS

89% Rec.2020, 99.5% Adobe RGB,
99% DCI-P3 and 100% sRGB

True 10bit

VESA Certified HDR 1000

Zone Dimming 1152

World-leading delta-E (∆E) <1 color performance and ASUS ProArt Hardware Calibration technology for color-accuracy optimization, uniformity and color profile write-back


Dell UltraSharp 32″ HDR PremierColor Monitor (UP3221Q)


Price $4999

4K UHD(3840 X 2160)

1000 NITS

99.8% DCI-P3

True 10bit

VESA Certified HDR 1000

Zone Dimming 2000

built-in Calman Powered colorimeter



ASUS

Thunderbolt™ 3 USB-C™ x2 (In x1, Out x1),
HDMI(v2.0b) x3,
DisplayPort 1.2




Dell

1 x DP 1.4 (HDCP 2.2)
2 x HDMI 2.0 (HDCP 2.2)
1 x ThunderboltTM 3 upstream port (DP 1.4) – Power Delivery up to 90W
1 x ThunderboltTM 3 downstream port (DP1.4) – Power Delivery up to 15W 2 x SuperSpeed USB 5/10 Gbps (USB 3.2 Gen 1/2) downstream port
1 x External Colorimeter port

 

[rand thompson]

Dell Ultrasharp UP3221Q - A 4K HDR Monitor with 2000+ MiniLED Local Dimming Zones - From CES 2020



By
Digit


from January 2020

 

[jake blackstone]

Everyone is pointing out to a higher brightness levels of 1600 nits monitors as a big advantage, but fact of the matter, as of TODAY, DolbyVision mastering is only done for either 1000 or 4000 nits. Yes, sometimes clients may also ask for another pass at 600 nits for the ever popular LG OLED monitors. Anyway, what that brightness differences mean, technically speaking, that if you you are mastering for DolbyVision on a 1600 nits monitor, highlights on a proper mastering 1000 nits monitor will then look wrong- they will be clipped. Inversely, watching a properly tone mapped 1000 nits DolbyVision material on a 1600 nits monitor will result in a dark highlights.

 

[rand thompson]

Everyone is pointing out to a higher brightness levels of 1600 nits monitors as a big advantage, but fact of the matter, as of TODAY, DolbyVision mastering is only done for either 1000 or 4000 nits. Yes, sometimes clients may ask for another pass at 600 nits for the ever popular LG OLED monitors. What that means, technically speaking, if you you are mastering for DolbyVision on a 1600 nits monitor, highlights on a proper mastering 1000 nits monitor will look wrong- they will be clipped. Inversely, watching a properly tone mapped 1000 nits DolbyVision material on a 1600 nits monitor will result in a dark highlights.

Thanks Jake for this info! As someone who has no experience with HDR content, it helped a lot.

 

[Maksim Medushkin]

I wonder if it has a fan. Asus fan is very noisy and after few months it became intolerably high pitch dentist reminding sound so I RMAed it. The replacement monitor is now gradually becoming noisier and noisier again.
Also Asus is below 3000USD - not 4500 - at least in Europe. But I would gladly pay extra for silence.

 

[rand thompson]

Maksim,

I couldn't really find an exact price for the Asus just a price range of from $3500 to $4500 with most dealers at around the $4500 mark, but you're probably right.

There wasn't a lot of detailed info on the Dell that I could find. So until it's released or pre-production models are made available for initial tests that we will know about the fan nouse

 

[Maksim Medushkin]

Maksim,

I couldn't really find an exact price for the Asus just a price range of from $3500 to $4500 with most dealers at around the $4500 mark, but you're probably right.

There wasn't a lot of detailed info on the Dell that I could find. So until it's released or pre-production models are made available for initial tests that we will know about the fan nouse

2465 GBP on Amazon UK. Also by the end of the year we expect PA32UCG from Asus - the first color accurate 4k 120hz monitor among other improvements.

 

[rand thompson]

2465 GBP on Amazon UK. Also by the end of the year we expect PA32UCG from Asus - the first color accurate 4k 120hz monitor among other improvements.

I've never used Asus products before. from reading your posts about the Asus products, I will have to investigate them more .

 

[Blair S. Paulsen]

Hate noisy monitors. You can put everything but the monitor/keyboard/mouse/control surface/etc in another room - but if the devices that have to be nearby are whiny, you're boned.
Would love to have reviewers measure noise levels and frequencies in their reports.
Even better, manufacturers should spec better fans!

Cheers - #19

 

[rand thompson]

Blair,

Hopefully that $4999 price tag ensures a much quieter fan than it's cheaper alternative.