We also checked the brightness of the 'HDR Standard' mode. We tested it in the 'HDR Dynamic' Picture Mode with Local Dimming enabled. We also checked the EOTF, which affects the brightness level of different scenes, and it doesn't follow the target PQ curve well because dark scenes are too dark, and bright scenes are over-brightened until the sharp roll-off, so you lose details in the brightest highlights. Samsung Odyssey G7 Product Properties Screen Size, 80 cm Width (With Stand), 710 mm Height (With Stand), 595 mm Depth (With Stand), 306 mm Weight, Without. It's worse than the Samsung Odyssey G7 LC32G75T. It barely meets its brightness requirement for the VESA DisplayHDR 400 certification, and it doesn't get bright enough to make highlights stand out. The Samsung G70A has mediocre HDR peak brightness. Samsung released another 4k monitor, the Samsung Odyssey Neo G7 S32BG75, that features Mini LED backlighting with a much better local dimming feature. Enabling the Local Dimming adjusts the brightness to the max, even if you set the Brightness setting lower, it doesn't do anything. There's also an 'Auto' option that turns on the local dimming when you enable HDR, and it disables it with SDR. We tested it with the Local Dimming setting at 'On'. In scenes like a star field, it won't turn on the zones if there are only a handful of small highlights, but all the zones light up if there are more bright objects, at which point the contrast looks bad.

Even subtitles look terrible because it lights up everything around them. It results in distracting blooming, and it's obvious when highlights transition between the zones. It only has 8 dimming zones, which are large, and the entire zone turns on when there's a small bright highlight. The Samsung Odyssey G7 28 has a terrible edge-lit local dimming feature.

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