The Future of Gaming Monitors: Can Ozone 4 Really Deliver?

Back when Ozone announced their high refresh rate IPS monitor, it seemed like unbelievable. The timeline has slipped, and now we're seeing competing products on the market that can already be bought. This project began in earnest in March 2019, with an estimated ship date of February 2021, but it's clear that this won't happen anytime soon.

The manufacturing date on the back of the monitor is December 2020, which means that Ozone has had enough time to produce and quality-check their product. But despite having a solid window of two years, they're still facing delays and uncertainty about when the final product will actually ship. This lack of progress raises concerns about Ozone's ability to meet demand and fulfill orders.

To put this into perspective, there are already several high-quality gaming monitors on the market that offer similar features at lower price points. For example, the Acer Predator XG17 runs at 240Hz with an IPS display, while the ASUS PG259Q offers a whopping 360Hz refresh rate. However, these monitors only run at 1080P, whereas Ozone's promised 1440P 240Hz monitor should offer much finer image quality.

Another competitor to Ozone's monitor is the Samsung Odyssey G7, which also runs at 240Hz with an IPS display and offers peak brightness of up to 600 units. However, it's sold out everywhere, and its price point starts at around $550. There's also the Samsung Odyssey G9, which is a wider and curved version of the G7, but comes with a hefty price tag of $1,000.

For those looking for a more affordable option, LG already has a 27GN950 monitor that runs at 240Hz with an IPS display, features RGB lighting on the back, and supports HDMI 2.1. However, it's sold out everywhere, and its price point starts at around $800. And if you're looking for something even more affordable, ASUS recently announced an HDMI 2.1 monitor, but it's not shipping yet.

The elephant in the room is Eve, a company that has struggled with supply chain management and fulfillment in the past. Their Windows 10 tablet, the Eve V, was plagued by delays and backorders, with many backers receiving their devices months or even years after they placed their orders. This lack of reliability raises concerns about Ozone's ability to meet demand and fulfill orders.

But despite these concerns, there is still a lot of potential for Ozone's monitor. If it can deliver on its promises and offers the features and image quality that the company has promised, it could be a game-changer in the gaming monitor market. The real question is whether Ozone has the funding and resources to actually make this happen.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Back in January,Eve said that their upcomingmonitor, the Eve Spectrumwould be the world'sfirst 240 Hertz, 1440P,one millisecond, IPS displaywith 750 units of brightness,as well as 135 Watts of powerdelivery for your devicesall for a disruptive price.And well, this is the problemwith kick-starting technologyproducts, isn't it?Because what sounds space agetoday is commodity tomorrow.And here we are 11 monthslater having reviewedmultiple 240 Hertz IPS monitors,including more than one,that's 1440P resolution or higher.So then is their salespitch still compellingas we head into 2021?And can Eve overcome their tainted historyto make the product abuy rather than a beware?We're gonna find out,brought to you by Ting.Ting is a customer-focused mobile providerthat has new rates to help you save moreon your monthly service plan.Learn more at the end of thisvideo or at the link below.(upbeat music)Not so far, all I'vemanaged to open is the standbut it looks and feelspretty metal as the kids say.And presumably it will bea part of whichever monitoryou decide to order.So there's the Spectrum QHD, so it's 1440Pthat runs at 144 Hertz for 440 bucks.The Spectrum QHD 240 Hertzand the Spectrum 4K 144 Hertz.That last one is the one we havewhich is actually kind of unfortunatebecause I was a little more interestedin the 240 Hertz QHD model.All of them are using LG IPS panelsand the QHD seemed to use thesame panel as the LG 27GL850while the 4K model probablyuses the same panelas the LG 27GN950.That is their only 4K 144 Hertz.Of course, this is allaccording to what Eve says,and Eve does not have aspotless record for deliveringexactly what they say, whenthey say they're going to do it.Of course, that doesn'tstop us from being curiousabout their progress on the Spectrumwhich is why we've agreed to take a lookat what is an earlyunit to give us an ideaof what the industrialdesign is gonna look like.According to Eve, this issomething that we can count on.Hopefully what the performanceis going to be likefor anyone who eitherbacks or buys this monitoronce it's just normally available.Okay, documentation time.What the devil?Yeah, they emailed sayingthis was out of date.So here's the real one.You've got a 10 gigabit per second uplink.That's the USB type C on the bottom.The two type A's are both10 gigabit per second.The one type C on the side isalso 10 gigabit per second.And finally the type B isjust a regular upstreamfive gigabyte per second accordingto the latest spec sheet.Power bricks in here, kindacool idea for the packaging.That's neat.It's pretty beefy, but youwould expect that from somethingthat has to power not only itself,but I don't know the numbersare all over the placebut at least a hundredWatts of external device.Apparently, HDMI 2.1 is notyet working in our early units.So that's not somethingthat we're going to try to do for now.Apparently it wants toDisplayPort connection.So we'll see how that goes.If this doesn't immediately work,we're throwing it in thegarbage, just kidding displayport it's a terrible connectorand it could necessitate a reboot.That whole split down themiddle thing on 4K monitorsused to be a thingback when they wereusing two panel displaysand like display portmulti-stream technology.But I thought this was supposedto be using display stream compressionto a single tile display.So I'm a little confused.Let's just double check andsee if we even have the 4K one.Yes, we do.James.- What's up?- Did both sides of it looked differentwhen you hooked it up?- Uh oh.- So this is our second unit actually,the first one had a broken joystick,so we couldn't navigate the menu properly,which wouldn't have been a huge problem,except that the up directiondidn't work on the joystick.And it was set to the minimumbrightness out of the box.So we couldn't turn the brightness up.Now, this one you havegotta be kidding me.Only down and right work.I'm just gonna reboot, what?I think the menu is completely frozen.I think we just blue screens,the monitors onscreen display.I mean, not blue, strictlyspeaking whatever,you guys know what I'm talking about.I don't think I've ever seen this before.We just locked up a monitor firmware.Okay, so let's try this again, oh my God.Okay, no, that's not what I wanted to do.I don't really know whatto say at this point.Hold on a second.Did switching to HDRmake the line go, ooh?Is it there but just less noticeable?No, I think it's gone, fine, screw it.Let's game in HDR at 4K, 144 Hertz.Okay, well that's weird.Do you see that shadowdown the middle now?Now there are a handful ofissues that Eve was awarethat we would find themthis unit, like the housing,tolerances are not yet final.The firmware's obviously early.The USB-C port does notcharge devices correctly yet,but what they do told us isthat in terms of performance,this was supposed to bevery close to what customerswill eventually receive.At least in terms of color accuracy.They've still got some work to dowith apparently the blur busters folkswhich is somewhat promising to meto get their emotion blurreduction like really down pat.And they claim thesemonitors from the calibratedat the factory for Delta-E ofless than two in P3 standardand at a D65 white point.A spoiler alert,if this is supposed to bea Delta-E of less than twowe don't seem to be quite there yet.HDR performance is apparently somethingthat they're stilltweaking and some good newsis that I don't see thatdark stain down the middleof the screen when we're out of the menu.Oh, you know what?It's got full screen dimming on right now.Wait, what just happened?It's supposed to be off.Okay, now just a sec.It's clearly on, right Brandon?Like when I opened the menu,the entire screen clearly gets brighter.Okay, so this it's not supposedto have dinning enabled though.See, backlight dinningis supposed to be off.So let's just this broken menu,yeah strangely G-Syncdoesn't show up at all.So it doesn't even allow me to force it.One other thing we can test is whethermy laptop will charge,right now they say the mainproblem is compatibility.So some devices should actuallywork even on this early unitfor charging, mine does not.This is the bottom one, right?Yeah, okay, oh whatever, you know what?What's the worst thatcan happen for my laptop?PC isn't charging, use therecommended charger and cableand make sure it's directly plugged in.All right, fair enough.The correct way to evaluate a displayusing the Blur Busters UFOTest is not with your eyesbut I've looked at it enough timesthat it gives me a roughidea to just look at it.And I can tell you guys nowthat there's no kind of blurreduction enabled whatsoever.Yeah, okay, okay, overdrive off.So let's try, let's seeif that helps at all.'Cause I just don't think anyof this is doing anything.The plan today was to pullout the high-speed cameraand shoot 1000 FPS footage ofthis, so that we could reallyevaluate its motion blur performance.'Cause that's one of thethings that's so greatabout the LG monitor that'sbased on this same panel,but this is so far offthat there'd be no pointeven evaluating it.- When arethey shipping this thing?- I mean, I don't know, but not soon.Moving on to color then, weknow that this panel is capableof excellent performance,which means it comes down to calibration,unfortunately compared to the LG GN950,it's not even close inspite of Eve telling usthat this unit was supposedto be pretty representativeof the color accuracy of a finished model.Now it's better than the onethat was locked at zero brightness,but I wouldn't use it for anykind of color accurate work.Whereas the LG out of thebox was pretty darn close.So then, here's our problem.Going back to the original sales pitch,everything looks great.And honestly, there's a lothere that's really promising.It's very compelling valueif they actually deliveron all those selling points.But this is the issuewith backing tech productson Kickstarter.Back when they announced this monitor,it seemed like unbelievable.And now the timeline has slipped,I mean, this project beganin earnest in March, 2019to the point wherethere's competing productsthat you can all ready buy.If this actually shipson their estimated date,which is February, 2021, I willbe (beeping sound) floored,like this unit right herethere's a manufacturing dateon the back, December, 2020.They just made this andit's just not close.It's not close at all.But with that said, remember how I saidyou could sort of buy competing products?Let's talk about that.For high refresh rate IPS monitors.We've got the Acer Predator XG17that runs at 240 Hertzand the ASUS PG259Q,which actually runs ata whopping 360 Hertz.But those aren't really quite comparablebecause they only runit 1080P whereas 1440Pwhich should theoretically be availableat up to 240 Hertz with the need spectrumis much, much finer looking.Now, as for 1440P 240 Hertz,there is the Samsung Odyssey G7,but it maxes out at 600units peak brightness.It's sold out basically everywhere,though in theory, you couldget it for as little as $550and it's curved, whichnot everyone is into.There's the Samsung Odyssey G9,that one's also 240 Hertz,1440P, but is super wide,also curved and is a $1,000 dollars.Now, as for direct competitors,for this guy right here,4K 144 Hertz.Well, LG all ready hasthe 27GN950 it's $800,has RGB on the back, which is cool,but it has no power delivery.No, HDMI 2.1, so if you have a gaming PCand the next gen consolesay in your dorm roomor something like that 'causeyou're a baller studentor whatever, and youwanna hook them both upto the same display, well,you'll get the best experiencewith something that does have HDMI 2.1,and it's sold out everywhereand is going for anywherefrom 1,100 to $1,400 on eBay.Damn you scalpers.And finally ASUS has announcedan HDMI 2.1 43-inch monitor,but they are also not shipping that yet.So time could be more on each sidethan we originally thought,if they can deliver,which is kind of thebiggest elephant in the roombecause Eve's got a bit of a history.The Eve V was a Windows 10,two in one that very favorablyto Microsoft Surface Pro whilecosting considerably less.Unfortunately, Eve tech couldn't produceor fulfill enough ordersto meet the demandand many backers receivedtheir devices monthsor even years after theyplaced their orders.It just kind of points to them,not necessarily havinga perfect track recordwhen it comes to supply chain managementand following through, whichsort of raises the question.I see a lot of potentialhere, but the concern for meis that they were soeager to send me somethingthat's not quite readythat it gives me concernsabout the business side of things.Do they have enough fundingto actually do the production runsor do they need morepre-orders, for example?And I have no way of answeringthat question for you.So if it actually lives up to the specsthat they say it will have,looks pretty freaking sick to mebut it remains to be seen if it will,just like it 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