Huge displays for entertainment and productivity are getting increasingly popular these days as prices are falling. Last year NVIDIA proposed a reference design for Big Format Gaming Displays: 65-inch monsters featuring a 120/144 Hz refresh rate along with the company’s G-Sync HDR technology. The initiative was supported by three companies: Acer, ASUS, and HP. But while all of them formally announced their BFGD products at CES 2018, only HP has started to sell one – the HP OMEN X Emperium.
Officially introduced at CES 2019, the HP OMEN X Emperium 65 display is based on a 64.5-inch 8-bit AMVA panel featuring a 3840×2160 resolution, 750-1000 nits brightness (typical/HDR), a 3200:1-4000:1 contrast ratio (minimum/typical), 178° viewing angles, a 120 – 144 Hz refresh rate (normal/overclocked), and a 4 ms GtG response time with overdrive enabled. Just like other G-Sync HDR monitors released to date, this one is equipped with a 384-zone full direct-array backlight to offer a finer-grained HDR experience, and enhanced with quantum dots to guarantee precise reproduction of 95% of the DCI-P3 color space. The ultra-large display can connect up to four devices using one DisplayPort 1.4 as well as three HDMI 2.0b ports.
To make the OMEN X Emperium 65 display more attractive both to gamers as well as those looking for other kinds of entertainment, HP outfitted its BFGD with a soundbar rated for 120 W of output power (with three stereo amps and Low Frequency Array technology) as well as a built-in SHIELD TV console that can be used as a media player to stream content from Amazon Video, Netflix, Hulu and other services.
| Specifications of the OMEN X Emperium 65 | ||
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| Panel | 64.5″ AMVA | |
| Native Resolution | 3840 × 2160 | |
| Maximum Refresh Rate | Normal: 120 Hz Overclocked: 144 Hz |
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| Response Time | 4 ms with overdrive | |
| Brightness | Typical: 750 cd/m² HDR: 1000 cd/m² |
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| Contrast | Minimum: 3200:1 Typical: 4000:1 |
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| Viewing Angles | 178°/178° horizontal/vertical | |
| Pixel Pitch | 0.372 mm² | |
| Pixel Density | 68 ppi | |
| Backlighting | 384-zone full direct-array backlight | |
| Color Gamut Support | DCI-P3: 95% | |
| Media Playback Capabilities | Built-in NVIDIA SHIELD TV game console | |
| Inputs | 1 × DisplayPort 1.4 3 × HDMI 2.0a 1x USB-B HDCP 2.2 |
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| USB Hub | 2-port USB 3.0 | |
| Audio | Output power: 120W Impedence: 4 Ohms Frequency range: 40 – 20k Hz Sensitivity: 91 dB @ 1K Hz at 1m full scale volume Magnet Materials: Ferrite Diaphragm: Aluminum Line out: 1 |
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| Power | Idle | 0.5 W |
| Typical | ? | |
| Peak | ? | |
| Launch Price | $4,999 | |
HP recently started to offer its OMEN X Emperium 65 online at a price of $4,999.99. As of press time, HP’s store stated that only nine units of the OMEN X Emperium were left in stock, so it is possible that there isn’t many in the first batch.
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Source: HP