ASUS Announces July Availability of ProArt Display OLED PA32DC
2022/07/21
The world’s first OLED reference monitor with automatic calibration to empower content creators is set to go on sale in Q3
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia July 21, 2022 — ASUS today announced that ProArt Display OLED PA32DC will be available on shelves by July 2022.
ProArt Display OLED PA32DC is the world’s first OLED reference monitor with automatic calibration. It features a built-in motorized flip colorimeter to ensure professional-grade color accuracy. This glorious 31.5-inch 4K (3840 x 2160) HDR reference monitor offers a cutting-edge OLED panel with pure RGB stripes and 99% DCI-P3 coverage to deliver highly accurate colors that bring out the finest details in every creation. PA32DC has a multi-award-winning design, earning accolades that include a 2022 Red Dot Award and a 2021 Japan Good Design Award.
Multiple HDR format support provides creators with the ideal platform for working with fast-moving HDR content. For comfort and convenience, PA32DC includes a pair of monitor feet and a stand to cater to any viewing position or work setup.
With ASUS Auto Calibration, ASUS ProArt calibration software, and both Calman and Light Illusion ColourSpace CMS professional hardware-calibration software, professional-grade color accuracy is assured ― and PA32DC is factory pre-calibrated to guarantee industry-leading color accuracy of Delta E1.
It also offers VESA DisplayHDR™ 400 True Black certification and a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio to ensure the deepest blacks and brightest whites, enabling PA32DC to accurately display the most minute details in shadows and bright highlights for incredibly realistic visuals. A superfast 0.1 ms response time ensures blur-free video or animated content.
Amazing OLED experiences
ProArt Display OLED PA32DC incorporates OLED technology to achieve ultra-precise control and extreme contrast, by making each individual pixel its own light source. The new display features a pure RGB-stripe OLED panel with billions of self-illuminating pixels that can be individually activated to reproduce truly lifelike imagery with deep blacks and enhanced color contrast for high-luminance images. These characteristics make PA32DC a natural fit for HDR content mastering.
PA32DC delivers exceptionally detailed and realistic visuals that exceed industry color-reproduction standards, with a studio-grade 99% DCI-P3 color gamut. This means that the colors reproduced on the display are richer and more vivid, so it’s ideal for color-intensive projects but also enhances any kind of content. It also features true 10-bit color depth to display more than 1.07 billion colors.
Designers, producers and color-solution companies deal with color-critical decisions and communications each day. ProArt displays are factory pre-calibrated to guarantee industry-leading color accuracy, offering color accuracy with a Delta E1 color difference value ― and PA32DC is no exception. It undergoes stringent and meticulous testing to ensure smoother color gradation, and each grayscale level is carefully measured and set to comply with the DICOM standard for medical use.
PA32DC reproduces black hues perfectly. Since each OLED pixel uses self-generated illumination, it simply turns off to display the deepest possible black shade for extremely crisp and clear images, even in the darkest scenes. As well, VESA DisplayHDR 400 True Black certification and a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio ensure the deepest blacks and brightest whites, enabling PA32DC to accurately display the most minute details in shadows and bright highlights for incredibly realistic visuals.
All this is backed by a superfast response time of just 0.1 ms, ensuring, blur-free video or animated content.
Intuitive and intelligent calibration
To maintain professional-level accuracy over the long term, ProArt Display OLED PA32DC benefits from a built-in motorized flip colorimeter that moves into place when required, even when the display hood is mounted. This feature makes it easy to calibrate the display, as needed.
PA32DC can also be calibrated and the look-up table subsequently rewritten via the ASUS ProArt calibration software that offers color tuning accuracy and uniformity compensation. It writes and saves color parameter profiles on the PA32DC’s internal scaler IC chip, instead of on the PC, allowing users to connect it to devices with different operating systems or applications without needing to adjust settings. The saved profiles can be easily activated via the hotkey on the monitor.
The built-in colorimeter also works seamlessly with Calman and Light Illusion ColourSpace CMS professional hardware-calibration software.
Uniform brightness setting
OLED displays feature an Auto Brightness Limiter (ABL) to maximize power use. When displaying a white (or bright) image in a particular window, the display automatically dims the image as the window size increases.
The optional Uniform Brightness function in the OSD menu is particularly useful when switching between, or changing the size of windows with vastly different contrast levels as it keeps brightness levels consistent for comfortable viewing and more accurate colors, even after hours of use.
Create in ultra-vivid HDR
PA32DC supports multiple HDR formats, including HDR10 and Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG) for unmatched levels of brightness, contrast and colors.
Several HDR10 curves are also supported, including the PQ hard clip curve, PQ Optimized and PQ Basic — all to suit the specific needs of content creators and ensure compatibility with existing video streaming services and a growing list of HDR-enabled games.
PA32DC’s support for HLG support means it’s ready for professional use in the TV industry, allowing users to view and create material for broadcast and satellite TV platforms such as BBC iPlayer, Japan NHK TV, and DirecTV.
PA32DC also features an HDR Preview feature for a better editing experience. This enables a direct camera-to-monitor connection to view captured HDR content with its full tonal range. It also works with video-editing software, enabling creators to view their final output for a more streamlined editing process.
