Acer Predator X32 Mini-LED Gaming Monitor Hits a Radiant 1,400 Nits Brightness With HDR

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With a mini-LED that bright, this should be the ultimate HDR monitor.

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The ultimate HDR experience calls for a couple things. For one, you’ll want a super bright screen, and then there’s the experience afforded by a full-array local dimming (FALD) backlight that allows the monitor to display differing levels of brightness in different zones. The Acer Predator X32, a 32-inch 4K gaming monitor arriving in Q1, will bring all that and then some. It could be the second mini-LED PC monitor available and one of just two monitors certified to deliver HDR content at at least 1,400 nits brightness. That luminescence comes at a cost though: the Predator X32 will cost $3,599.

Scharon Harding
Scharon Harding

Scharon Harding has over a decade of experience reporting on technology with a special affinity for gaming peripherals (especially monitors), laptops, and virtual reality. Previously, she covered business technology, including hardware, software, cyber security, cloud, and other IT happenings, at Channelnomics, with bylines at CRN UK.

7 Comments Comment from the forums
  • AlistairAB
    See this is what we were waiting for. 32 inches with a FALD backlight, 120+ Hz. And the price $3599? Ridiculous. Anyone still want to defend LCD technology? LG can easily make 32 inch OLED monitors for $999 or less with all the HDR support and better in every way. Seems like FALD and mini LED is a dead end tech. It can't be adapted to HDR properly.
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  • spongiemaster
    AlistairAB said:
    See this is what we were waiting for. 32 inches with a FALD backlight, 120+ Hz. And the price $3599? Ridiculous. Anyone still want to defend LCD technology? LG can easily make 32 inch OLED monitors for $999 or less with all the HDR support and better in every way. Seems like FALD and mini LED is a dead end tech. It can't be adapted to HDR properly.
    Permanent screen burn in makes OLED a non starter for a computer monitor. That's why no one is producing any. Current OLED monitors are just large format TV screens advertised for PC use. How many plasma computer monitors were there despite vastly superior picture quality compared to LCD's of that era? Same problem.

    There is actually a smaller OLED monitor from Asus, released earlier this year.

    Only $4000 for 21.6"
    That's not the future.
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  • AlistairAB
    spongiemaster said:
    Permanent screen burn in makes OLED a non starter for a computer monitor. That's why no one is producing any. Current OLED monitors are just large format TV screens advertised for PC use. How many plasma computer monitors were there despite vastly superior picture quality compared to LCD's of that era? Same problem.

    There is actually a smaller OLED monitor from Asus, released earlier this year.

    Only $4000 for 21.6"
    That's not the future.

    That's a garbage JOLED OLED. That company is more like a tax credit company rather than actually making anything. Many people such as myself have been using LG OLED TVs as monitors for some time with no burn in problems. There is no monitor version because it takes a large factory and there is nowhere to produce it yet. There's some hope now that the LG Chinese factory will come to full production over the next few months. 48 inch model is supposed to be coming.
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  • spongiemaster
    AlistairAB said:
    That's a garbage JOLED OLED. That company is more like a tax credit company rather than actually making anything. Many people such as myself have been using LG OLED TVs as monitors for some time with no burn in problems. There is no monitor version because it takes a large factory and there is nowhere to produce it yet. There's some hope now that the LG Chinese factory will come to full production over the next few months. 48 inch model is supposed to be coming.
    It seems no one in the industry agrees with you. Where are the screens? Anything even announced?
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  • AlistairAB
    spongiemaster said:
    It seems no one in the industry agrees with you. Where are the screens? Anything even announced?

    Buy a 48" OLED for around 1 grand rather than buy a 32 inch mini led for 4 grand... buy 3 and replace them if they get burn in still cheaper...
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  • shadragon
    An email from Acer just confirmed this monitor will not be available in the near future with no ETA on delivery. I've waited 7 months and this monitor has not appeared on the market anywhere that I can see. Not even sure if review samples were shipped.

    I've owned the last two generations of Predators, but now I'm looking at other vendors offerings. Crappier stats, but at least I can buy them now.

    Toms Hardware, there's a story here. Other manufacturers have put out new kit. Why can't Acer???
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  • hotaru.hino
    AlistairAB said:
    Seems like FALD and mini LED is a dead end tech. It can't be adapted to HDR properly.
    Because these are stepping stones to microLEDs. And if microLEDs are all that are cracked up to be on top of being manufactured on economic scales that make sense, then OLEDs aren't going to look as pleasing anymore.

    Also on the flip side, I don't have room on my desk for a 48" TV and it makes zero sense anyway given the typical viewing distance I'm at from my current setup.
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