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At CES 2018, Nvidia announced a new line of gaming monitors designed to round upwards and deliver every single high-end feature you lot tin can purchase in a monitor or television today. The company's new BFGD monitors — the acronym stands for Big Format Game Display, obviously, and not the kind of profanity-fueled phrase that might pb i to characterization such a display a "BFGD Screen" — are serious business organization, every bit the proverb 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 up to 1,000 nits of brightness. The devices also integrate an Nvidia Shield, which Nvidia says volition deliver Netflix, Amazon Video, and YouTube at 4K, plus Nvidia GameStream, and Android games and apps.

Supported resolution and aspect ratios are a scrap fuzzy at the moment. Nvidia'southward weblog post repeatedly calls out its BFGD displays every bit beingness 4K panels @ 120Hz, but information technology also makes reference to 3440×1440 panels when it writes: "[W]eastward've been working for over two years with leading panel producer AU Optronics to create and perfect 4K and 3440×1440 G-SYNC HDR displays." There's no word on which models from which companies support Ultrawide and which are true 4K panels.

There are advantages to both formats, however. A standard 16:ix 4K panel gives y'all native 4K content display and will show movies with no colonnade or letter boxing. A 3440×1440 panel gives you a broad bending view of the activity with better peripheral visibility for gaming while the lower resolution will assist your GPU go on up with the on-screen action. Ultimately, this comes downwards to personal preference for college resolution and 16:9 or lower resolutions and a wider screen.

Information technology's non articulate if these new panels conform to the VESA DisplayHDR-thousand standard. DisplayHDR-1000 is the highest defined category of HDR displays VESA has released, and the reference Nvidia makes to the DCI-P3 color gamut farther suggests nosotros'll see DisplayHDR-k compatibility equally role of these panels (VESA mandates xc percent of the DCI-P3 color space for all DisplayHDR-600 and DisplayHDR-k monitors).

Just a few weeks ago, we noted that we're finally starting to see monitors that pack in support for all elevation-end features rather than picking and choosing which y'all become. That future is a scrap closer than we thought, though betwixt Nvidia'southward fees for G-Sync hardware and the price of a built-in Nvidia Shield (plus the inherent cost of a low-latency, loftier-terminate, 120Hz-capable, 4K console), 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 — also couldn't perhaps be used to refer to the final price.

(Okay, seriously, we don't know what they're going to toll nonetheless, and one can dream of $500 toll points, but if they come in that cheap I'll consider eating my chapeau).