Dough has come clean on its plans for a new 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor, and it's pegging an April 2024 release on this new screen. The upcoming Spectrum Black 4K has been in co-development alongside the 27-inch 1440p Spectrum Black, which is due to launch sometime around September this year.
We're excited to see what the company does with the 27-inch LG W-OLED panel it's using for the 2560 x 1440 version, but it's the supreme pixel pitch of a 4K screen, in a standard gaming monitor size, that we've been holding out for.
And it's taken a long time for this to come around. Indeed Dough shared around a roadmap for the upcoming OLED panels it's aware of last week, and these 4K OLEDs were grouped around a Q3/summer launch next year.
Interestingly, it's Samsung's QD-OLED 4K that was reportedly due first, and with Dough claiming an April expected launch date for its next display, it might have seemed to be switching manufacturers and opting for the Sammy panel over the LG screens it's been using up to now.
But the subpixel comparison images Dough has supplied make it clear that this isn't going to be a QD-OLED, with those tell-tale white subpixels and a side-by-side layout Samsung doesn't use. That means we should be looking at that 4K LG W-OLED panel coming out a lot earlier than the Q3 prediction we saw last week.
Because the company is reusing the same motherboard, and some other components from the 27-inch Spectrum Black, it believes it should be able to stick to the April release for the 32-inch display.
There will be two versions of the Spectrum Black 4K, however, one matte and one with a glossy glass screen, using the same Gorilla Glass covering as it is with the upcoming 1440p OLED.
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