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At CES 2022, Nvidia appear a new line of gaming monitors designed to round upward and evangelize every single loftier-end feature yous can buy in a monitor or boob tube today. The company'south new BFGD monitors — the acronym stands for Big Format Game Brandish, plainly, and not the kind of profanity-fueled phrase that might lead one to label such a display a "BFGD Screen" — are serious business organisation, as the saying goes.

All of the partner displays from Acer, Asus, and HP are 65-inch panels that support upwardly to 120Hz refresh rates and HDR with upwardly to 1,000 nits of effulgence. The devices also integrate an Nvidia Shield, which Nvidia says will deliver Netflix, Amazon Video, and YouTube at 4K, plus Nvidia GameStream, and Android games and apps.

Supported resolution and aspect ratios are a flake fuzzy at the moment. Nvidia's web log postal service repeatedly calls out its BFGD displays as existence 4K panels @ 120Hz, only it too makes reference to 3440×1440 panels when it writes: "[Due west]eastward've been working for over two years with leading panel producer AU Optronics to create and perfect 4K and 3440×1440 One thousand-SYNC HDR displays." At that place's no give-and-take on which models from which companies support Ultrawide and which are true 4K panels.

At that place are advantages to both formats, however. A standard 16:9 4K panel gives you native 4K content brandish and volition testify movies with no pillar or letter boxing. A 3440×1440 panel gives you a wide angle view of the activity with improve peripheral visibility for gaming while the lower resolution will help your GPU go along up with the on-screen action. Ultimately, this comes down to personal preference for college resolution and 16:9 or lower resolutions and a wider screen.

It'south not clear if these new panels conform to the VESA DisplayHDR-one thousand standard. DisplayHDR-1000 is the highest divers category of HDR displays VESA has released, and the reference Nvidia makes to the DCI-P3 color gamut farther suggests we'll see DisplayHDR-k compatibility as office of these panels (VESA mandates 90 pct of the DCI-P3 color infinite for all DisplayHDR-600 and DisplayHDR-thou monitors).

Just a few weeks ago, we noted that we're finally starting to run across monitors that pack in support for all top-end features rather than picking and choosing which you get. That future is a bit closer than we thought, though between Nvidia's fees for G-Sync hardware and the cost of a built-in Nvidia Shield (plus the inherent cost of a low-latency, high-end, 120Hz-capable, 4K panel), we wouldn't count on picking these up at a discount sale. "BFGD" — the acronym that totally couldn't be used in partnership with any kind of profanity to refer to the brandish — besides couldn't possibly be used to refer to the final price.

(Okay, seriously, nosotros don't know what they're going to cost yet, and 1 tin can dream of $500 toll points, just if they come in that cheap I'll consider eating my chapeau).