MSI's EOTF Boost Mode Gives Its OLED Monitors A Big Brightness Upgrade

There's little argument that OLED monitors are well on their way to eventually become "perfect" displays with their true blacks, vivid colors, and effectively zero response times. There's only one major issue left to truly solve, though, and that's the overall brightness. Although many monitors can reach 1000 nits, that's only in a tiny portion of the screen, so the display's overall brightness remains low. This leads to a problem that few reviewers talk about, that of wild average brightness fluctuations. MSI is looking to fix that, with the new EOTF Boost mode coming to its entire OLED monitor range.

MSI says it'll begin rolling out the mode as standard in its upcoming OLED displays, as well as provide firmware updates for its entire existing OLED lineup, per a Reddit post by the MSI technical marketing team. In a welcome nod to transparency, the ...