Still in very limited supply (Media Engineers have a demo unit) the new HDR monitor from EIZO is something of a game-changer; I know that's an expression that every product launch uses, but their re-implementation of ABL makes this sub-£4K display as usable as a £30K mastering monitor. The only limitation is that it's UHD resolution rather than full-4K (so 3840 pixels wide rarther than 4096).
If you want to get a demo unit in to evaluate for yourself https://engineers.media/contact-us
It's worth noting that no display technology is perfect, particulary for HDR. OLED displays (going all the way back to the Sony BVM-X300) suffer from ABL - the power-supply can only light up a certain proportion of the display at maximum luminance in HDR mode. Until this monitor OLEDs would dim the display once you got past a certain proportion of the screen at peak luminance in HDR mode - on the old X300s it was typically 10% and on current OLEDs it's often 3%
In the case of this one they have re-implemented the ABL algorithm to not dim the whole display but to only dim the very brightest areas of the screen.
Playing back a very aggresively-HDR sequence with this monitor, a CG1 Prominence (still the gold standard with no ABL!) and an ASUS ProArt PA32UDCM shows the CG3200X and the CG1 to be very similair whereas the ASUS visibly "pumps" as the whole luminance range is forced to dim to accomodate ABL.
So - played the same sequence with a 100nit patch in the middle of the screen to simulate mid-tones (typically faces where you notice this stuff) and you can see from the two graphs how the ABL algorithms behave. Traditional ABL has mid-tones going all over the place but the new ABL algorithm in the CG3200X shows a rock-solid 100nit patch even as ABL is forced on and off.
In the case of this one they have re-implemented the ABL algorithm to not dim the whole display but to only dim the very brightest areas of the screen.
So - played the same sequence with a 100nit patch in the middle of the screen to simulate mid-tones (typically faces where you notice this stuff) and you can see from the two graphs how the ABL algorithms behave. Traditional ABL has mid-tones going all over the place but the new ABL algorithm in the CG3200X shows a rock-solid 100nit patch even as ABL is forced on and off.
How normal ABL changes the value of a 100 nit patch on 1,000 nit material
EIZO's CG3200X keeps the 100nit patch stable even as ABL is active
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