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Review Summary
2021-07-05T11:38:26
- Color shift issues when up close "enjoying" 6K. (ie. if you need accurate colors from edge to edge, this isn't the one) - Noticeable and distracting vignetting (darker towards the edges of the screen). + colors are nice, if you are further away from the panel but again, white balance shift away from center negates this plus factor for any accurate work. - price. + pretty on your desk (if that matters vs performance) - bad apple! I was hoping for a knock out the park. :(. I love their other gear though.
JAY B.
2020-02-16T11:52:13
I bought this monitor to color grade hdr content on DaVinci Resolve. It is really nice to see the footage in hdr directly on the resolve viewport, it looks amazing for grading hdr. My problem with this display is the poor view angle, when you are in front of the monitor the center looks ok but the sides get darker like a vignette and you must move your head to see the correct color, for example.. I was grading a snow scene, the center of the scene looks white but the sides get a blue-gray tint and I must move far away from the monitor to check the color without the vignette effect from the poor view angle. The Nano coating is nice, the videos looks amazing without reflections but you will notice a weird and distracting noise from the nano coating unless you seat far away from the display.
Julian S.
Standard glass
Retina 6K Display:
32" (diagonal) IPS LCD display with oxide TFT technology
Resolution: 6016 by 3384 pixels (20.4 million pixels) at 218 pixels per inch
Aspect ratio: 16:9
XDR (Extreme Dynamic Range):
Viewing angle: Superwide angle with high-fidelity color and contrast at 89 Degree left, 89 Degree right, 89 Degree up, 89 Degree down
Fully laminated; 1.65% reflectivity (typical)
Contrast ratio: 1,000,000:1
Color: P3 wide color gamut, 10-bit depth for 1.073 billion colors
XDR brightness: 1000 nits sustained full-screen, 1600 nits peak1 (HDR content only)
SDR brightness: 500 nits
2D backlighting system using 576 full array local dimming zones
Apple-designed timing controller (TCON) chip engineered to precisely control high-speed modulation of both 20.4 million LCD pixels and 576 LEDs in backlight for seamless synchronization
True Tone technology with dual ambient light sensor (ALS) design to ensure an accurate viewing experience in any ambient lighting condition
47.95Hz
48.00Hz
50.00Hz
59.94Hz
60.00Hz
Available reference modes:
Pro Display XDR (P3-1600 nits)
Apple Display (P3-500 nits)
HDR Video (P3-ST 2084), HDTV Video (BT.709-BT.1886), NTSC Video (BT.601 SMPTE-C), PAL and SECAM Video (BT.601 EBU), Digital Cinema (P3-DCI), Digital Cinema (P3-D65), Design and Print (P3-D50), Photography (P3-D65), Internet and Web (sRGB)
The following features require macOS Catalina 10.15.2 or later:
Reference mode selection
Custom reference modes
Reference status indicator
Brightness control
Portrait/landscape detection
Night Shift
True Tone
Dolby Vision, HDR10, and Hybrid-Log Gamma (HLG) playback support
User calibration
One Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) port, three USB-C ports
One upstream port for Mac Pro or other Thunderbolt 3 host (96W host charging)
Three USB-C (USB 2) ports for charging or syncing
Pro Display XDR is compatible with the following Mac models running macOS Catalina 10.15.2 or later:
Mac Pro (2023)
Mac Pro (2019) with MPX Module GPUs
Mac Studio (2022 or later)
Mac mini (2018 or later)
16-inch MacBook Pro (2019 or later)
14-inch MacBook Pro (2021 or later)
15-inch MacBook Pro (2018 or later)
13-inch MacBook Pro (2016 or later)
MacBook Air (2020 or later)
27-inch iMac (2019 or later)
24-inch iMac (2021 or later)
21.5-inch iMac (2019)
iMac Pro (2017)
Any Mac model with Thunderbolt 3 ports paired with Blackmagic eGPU or Blackmagic eGPU Pro
Line voltage: 100-240V AC
Frequency: 50Hz to 60Hz, single phase
Operating temperature: 50 Degree to 95 Degree F (10 Degree to 35 Degree C)
Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
Maximum altitude: tested up to 16,400 feet (5000 meters)
28.3 x 16.2 x 1.1" (71.8 x 41.2 x 2.7cm)
16.49 lbs (7.48kg)
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Believing is seeing.
The first 32-inch Retina 6K display ever. Up to 1600 nits of brightness. An astonishing 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio and superwide viewing angle. Over a billion colors presented with exceptional accuracy. And dynamic range that transforms the professional workflow. Introducing Apple Pro Display XDR, the world's best pro display.
XDR. Dynamic range to the extreme
The contrast your eyes see between brightness and darkness is very challenging to reproduce in a display, leading to the development of High Dynamic Range (HDR). With breakthrough backlighting technology, Pro Display XDR takes brightness, contrast, and color to a new level. Far beyond HDR, it's Extreme Dynamic Range (XDR).
A brighter idea.
Typical desktop displays have sustained brightness around 350 nits. Some pro displays exceed this, but most can only sustain it for short periods of time. Pro Display XDR produces an industry-leading 1000 nits of full-screen sustained brightness and 1600 nits at its peak.1 It gives you the power to maintain extreme brightness without ever dimming. Along with efficient backlight control, this delivers outstanding contrast between the brightest brights and the blackest blacks. The result is an incredible 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio and stunningly real XDR imagery.
Show your truest colors.
Pro Display XDR always gives you the truest representation of your work. A P3 wide color gamut provides a color palette capable of creating the most vibrant imagery. With true 10-bit color, Pro Display XDR can produce more than a billion colors with extreme accuracy. State-of-the-art calibration and a sophisticated algorithm ensure that you get the highest-quality color possible.
LED in a whole new light
True-to-life imagery requires having extremely bright areas of the screen right next to extremely dark areas. Without precise backlight control, this can cause an unintended glow called blooming. Pro Display XDR is able to dramatically reduce blooming using advanced LED technology, light shaping, and intelligent image processing.
Innovation in every layer.
Every aspect of the light imaging system in Pro Display XDR is crucial to the overall quality of what you see onscreen. Each element builds on top of the last to create a display with unbelievable brightness and contrast.
576 blue LEDs work together.
Typical LCDs are edge-lit by a strip of white LEDs. The 2D backlighting system in Pro Display XDR is unlike any other. It uses a superbright array of 576 blue LEDs that allows for unmatched light control compared with white LEDs. Twelve controllers rapidly modulate each LED so that areas of the screen can be incredibly bright while other areas are incredibly dark. All of this produces an extraordinary contrast that's the foundation for XDR.
Light is mixed and shaped.
For even greater control of light, each LED is treated with a reflective layer, a highly customized lens, and a geometrically optimized reflector that are all unique to Pro Display XDR. Through a pioneering design, light is reflected, mixed, and shaped between two layers to minimize blooming and provide uniform lighting.
Color is transformed.
Converting blue light to white is a difficult process that requires extremely precise color conversion. It's why most display makers use white LEDs. Pro Display XDR accomplishes this conversion with an expertly designed color transformation sheet made of hundreds of layers that control the light spectrum passing through them.
Brightness is taken to the edge.
Pro Display XDR extends exceptional image quality to the very edge. To ensure that LEDs along the sides of the display mix well with adjacent ones, a micro-lens array boosts light along the edges. This creates uniform color and brightness across the entire screen.
One chip makes it all possible.
With a massive amount of processing power, the timing controller (TCON) chip utilizes an algorithm specifically created to analyze and reproduce images. It controls LEDs at over 10 times the refresh rate of the LCD itself, reducing latency and blooming. It's capable of multiple refresh rates for amazingly smooth playback. Managing both the LED array and LCD pixels, the TCON precisely directs light and color to bring your work to life with stunning accuracy.
Superwide viewing angle.
When multiple people review work together on a single screen, it's critical that everyone sees the same thing. While most pro desktop displays claim a wide viewing angle, in reality, color and image quality become distorted when seen off-axis. With industry-leading polarizer technology, Pro Display XDR achieves a superwide viewing angle that maintains exceptional color and contrast.
Goes with the workflow
Professionals require a lot from their displays. But each person has different needs. Resolution, reference modes, reliable calibration. Pro Display XDR has everything you need in a modern workflow, bringing a new level of efficiency to every production. It wasn't just made for the pro workflow. It redefines it.
Retina 6K. Expand your view.
Higher resolution means more than just a better-quality image. With a Retina 6K display, Pro Display XDR gives you nearly 40 percent more screen real estate than a 5K display. While most displays max out at around 150 pixels per inch (ppi), our Retina display has 218 ppi, providing astoundingly sharp and detailed imagery. It's a massive creative canvas that easily fits 4K content, your tools, and much more all in one screen.
Many creatives. One vision.
Pro video workflows involve a range of professionals with unique setups. What's always been missing is the ability to see the same image across an entire production. Pro Display XDR allows pros at every point in the process to experience exactly the same groundbreaking picture quality.
On location
From the start of a shoot, Pro Display XDR reveals the content you're capturing with incredible accuracy.
Post-production
Image reproduction remains consistent across every point of your workflow, ensuring that everyone is always on the same page.
Reference modes.
It's easy to adjust Pro Display XDR to match the requirements of HDR, HD, SD video, digital cinema, and broader uses such as photography, web development, design, and print. Just select a mode, and the display reconfigures itself to match a specified color space, white point, gamma, and brightness. You even have the ability to create custom reference modes.
True Tone.
The lighting around you can affect the way you see onscreen colors. True Tone on Pro Display XDR uses a breakthrough dual ambient light sensor design - with a sensor on the front and another on the back - to better gauge your overall lighting environment. This facilitates more exact adjustments to the color and intensity of your display, so you can have accurate viewing in all lighting conditions.
Expertly calibrated.
Pro Display XDR is optimized to more than meet the standards of creative professionals. Every display goes through our state-of-the-art color calibration. Each of the display's 576 LEDs is also individually calibrated and has its light profile stored. An algorithm then uses this information to determine the exact light intensity at which each LED should be modulated to produce the best possible image.
A beautiful picture is only part of the story
Pro Display XDR is stunning every way you look at it. Its screen stretches edge to edge with just a 9 mm border, so your work takes center stage. The aluminum enclosure is just an inch thick and features an innovative lattice pattern that reduces weight and increases airflow.
More air than metal.
The lattice pattern machined into the aluminum has many advantages. It more than doubles the surface area exposed to air, facilitating additional airflow and acting as a heat sink. This allows for fast and quiet cooling, enabling Pro Display XDR to sustain an extreme level of brightness indefinitely. Inlet and exhaust vents work through this pattern to draw in cool air and eject hot air away from the system, limiting the potential for hot air to be reingested.
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