Nothing to do with personal excitement, everything to do with scheduling. A high level reviewer will literally have endless products to review including items sent to them by much bigger companies than Eve, and they be expecting their product to be reviewed if the reviewer wants to maintain a relationship with them. Eve is small fry to those reviewers with large online presence.
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Hi I’m new here. I made a reservation for the 240Hz as I want frames over resolution but I was wondering how will it affect watching 4k content such as Netflix, Hulu, Disney +, etc on this monitor as there is only 1080p and 4k? I apologize if this has been answered/ not the correct place to ask.
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afaik you can’t watch 4k content from netflix on a 2k monitor, I think it won’t let you select 4k from the app/browser. Maybe there is a workaround tho.
Anyway netflix 4k is worse than a 1080p blu ray, so…
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Hello I am getting model 3 for ps5. But if by chance i want to use it for computer I use my computer heavily for arcade emulators like MAME. MAME uses many resolutions to display arcade games.Would this monitor be able to display these low resolutions that MAME requires? If you do not know could you test the monitor please?
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Hey, @EightBit! Would you like to tell us what resolutions does MAME require? We can test all resolutions that Spectrum supports at a later point in the DVT stage.
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The LG 27GN950, which I believe uses the same panel as Spectrum, supports the following resolutions:
640 x 480 @ 60 Hz
800 x 600 @ 60 Hz
1024 x 768 @ 60 Hz
1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz
2560 x 1440 @ 120Hz
3840 x 2160 @ 30,60,95,120 or 144 Hz
Personally, I am most interested in 1080p, 1440p and 2160p (4K). It’s a shame that it doesn’t look like 1080p at higher refresh rates will be possible for spectrum model 3, but I am glad to see 1440p at 120 Hz looks like it will be an option; however there are some legitimate concerns about upscaled image quality due to non-integer ratio of 1440p to 2160p (4K). This is an area of testing and alternate display mode options that I hope is going to be well covered, ie. 1440p 1:1 mode, 1440p wide aspect (UWQHD) mode and possibly others.
Edit: In November, Eve published initial timings in a photo that shows higher refresh rates for lower resolutions is supported.
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What are the chances of seeing a 32inch 4k display in the future from eve.
I currently have a model 3 ordered.
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It will depend on the result of our future community project survey; if many of you would like us to make it, we will explore the possibilities.
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Hey guys, any new information in regards to release dates / time frame? Is the 4k spectrum still expected Q4 2020 ?
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I wonder if the 1080p/60 limitation is a firmware limitation of the 27GN950 or a hardware limitation of the panel that will carry over to Spectrum.
I’m sure it wouldn’t be uncommon for users to consider lowering the resolution in certain games to increase FPS, especially with how nicely it should look with the integer scaler. But if Spectrum only supports 144hz at 4K and limits it to 60hz at 1080p, that could be a dealbreaker for some.
@Lore_Wonder Mind shedding a little light on this? When receiving a 1080p signal will the model 3 support 1080p/144hz or if it will be limited to 1080p/60hz?
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Of course, I am glad to shed more light on it. We should be able to test Spectrum’s low-resolution support at a later point in the DVT stage. Personally, I believe 1080p@144Hz is a must-have to utilize the pixel-perfect integer-ratio upscaling to its fullest potential.
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Ya, I agree, that’s why I used the term “doesn’t look like” instead of a more absolute statement (along with supporting evidence). 1080p at higher refresh rates is supported under HDMI 2.0 (which is used in the LG monitor). And HDMI 2.1 (used in Spectrum) doesn’t specifically add anything new for that. So assuming Spectrum’s UHD controller hardware supports it and it is compatible with the panel timings, it could just be a firmware question.
Although, I still wonder why LG wouldn’t include higher refresh 1080p in their product. Maybe it comes down to the max number of different profiles that can be stored and having to make some hard choices to maximize the broadest video source compatibility. If that is the case, I hope we would prioritize 1080p at 144 Hz over anything at 640x480.
Just a note for folks interested in HDCP 2.2 vs 2.3 question: The HDCP 2.3 specification says that HDCP-2.3 devices (including transmitters, repeaters and receivers) must support 2.3 and lower devices.
Also, the HDCP 2.3 compliance test specification states:
Transmitter test 1A-14: Regular Procedure – Authentication with HDCP 2.2 Receiver
- Test Objective: Verify the Source DUT correctly authenticates with an HDCP 2.2 capable receiver.
If DUT successfully completes the authentication process, then PASS
DUT = Device Under Test. So, this means if you have a HDCP 2.3 source device, like say an RTX 30x0 video card, in order for that source device to be compliant with HDCP 2.3, it must successfully negotiate an encrypted channel with HDCP 2.2 receivers, like the Spectrum monitors. So, it looks like we’re good to go, at least for now. 
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Can someone clarify for me, how local dimming zones in model 3 are made? Is they arranged in 16 x 1, or 8 x 2 or 4 x 4?
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The lg equivalent of the monitor (27gn950) has vertical dimming zones; so - 16x1.
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Same panel, doesn’t mean it will have the same dimming zones though. I don’t think we’ve been told other than the how many.
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In the last update they said they went back to using the original backlight that LG is using.
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Can’t find that. Do you have a link?
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We strongly feel that local dimming is great when using a full-array of hundreds if not thousands of individual zones, and based on community feedback we’re not the only ones. Because these premium backlight solutions are well outside the price range of our monitor, we intended to offer a solid global dimming experience instead. Everything we’ve tested so far ended up harming the image quality, bringing us back to a backlight module LG designed for this panel that does use local dimming. We did make sure that it can be disabled, allowing for no-, global- or local dimming, with global dimming being the default setting out of the box.
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Thanks you. But I would definitively prefer an option with 4 x 4 global dimming zones, or it was too expensive to implement ?
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