NVIDIA's BFGD Solutions Delayed to Q1 2019, Will Cost an Awful Penny

[Vayra86]

The point of this 1000 nits target is for advertising. They want their flash flash flash ads to really sear into you.

edit: It's also potentially a great way to turn over OLED sets more quickly, since those pixels will wear out faster, especially as the ridiculous 8K craze becomes the standard. People will "discover" problems like gamut shrinkage (especially in the blue shades) and contrast reduction and offer upgrades to fix the problem. "Old set looking washed-out, the new-and-improved sets not only have 10K resolution, they have a wider color gamut than sRGB!"

What gamers and video watchers need more than 1000 nits is better static contrast (except for OLED) and a vastly wider color gamut than the ancient sRGB. The new HDR standard is going in that direction but too much emphasis is being placed where it shouldn't be (pixel shrinkage and, especially, excessive eye-searing brightness). I have no doubt that the primary factor behind the brightness marketing is advertising. Ad companies have already discovered the trick of turning the screen black periodically during commercials to make people think the ad is over.

The 1000 nit HDR spec and the VESA specs are not for OLED but for LCD.

OLED doesnt need this peak brightness to achieve HDR

 

[Nuke Dukem]

Will Cost an Awful Penny... these now sit between the €4,000 and €5,000 ballpark

Well in that case nvidia can suck on my big fat pennies!

 

[Ravenmaster]

Ok so the latest LG 65" 4K OLED can be bought for around £2500. A g-sync module to go in it has been reported to cost around £500, then there's a built-in Nvidia Shield which costs £200. Add another £200 for the implementation of HDMI 2.1 sockets and you have a price of roughly £3400. Don't know where nvidia are pulling this extra £1600 from to make it £5000. Probably out of their arses as usual...

 

[StrayKAT]

Vega + new Samsung TV's with Freesync for less than half.

You won't get 120hz 4k though (not that I know of). Then again, can Nvidia even do that themselves (honest question)?