I’m So Damn Tired of Monitors With High Refresh Rates and Nothing Else

Big numbers meant to promote big, expensive monitors are set to bore my eyes out of their sockets. The fabled 8K resolution remains a pipe dream when no company wants to make native content that supports it. Now Samsung is back offering another “world’s first” blistering fast QD-OLED monitor with its new Odyssey OLED G660SF that seems high on its own supply thanks to a 500Hz refresh rate. It’s the new, prime example of why efforts to create the highest-refresh monitor turn our attention away from true innovations in display design. The Samsung Odyssey OLED G6 G60SF’s big selling point for nearly $1,500 is its 500Hz refresh rate. Otherwise, it’s a QHD, 2,560 x 1,440 resolution panel with a 0.03ms response time and a claimed peak brightness of 1,000 nits with HDR. For the uninitiated, a refresh rate determines how many times a display can refresh an image per second. Essentially, Samsung’s latest expensive OLED can refresh an image 500 times in a second. That combines with the frames pe ... Read full article.