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 4JF30AA#ABA Panel 64.5" AMVA Native Resolution 3840 × 2160 Maximum Refresh Rate Normal: 120 Hz

Overclocked: 144 Hz Response Time 4 ms with overdrive Brightness Typical: 750 cd/m²

HDR: 1000 cd/m² Contrast Minimum: 3200:1

Typical: 4000:1 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 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

S-PDIF out: 1

HDMI ARC: 1 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