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I mean there's usually some sort of logic behind the name even if it's not immediately apparent. I think monitors are just prone to lots of SKUs and frequent revisions as panels improve. Edit: HP for example has 146 items listed in their monitors section.
Product names now:
Crying wojak: "EWRT-3846-Pro"
Product names back then:
Chad wojak: "Pulsar 25"
When non-english-speaking places try to come up with real names, you end up with
Zeuslap, Hgfrtee, and Grebear
So the random characters only slightly inferior
I think you mean ZEUSLAP, HGFRTREE, and GREBEAR.
Oh, and they're all the exact same product.
Hilariously accurate.
Yeah the HT269-GH262J has nothing on the HT269-GH262J-P#@/JKL
Me, researching online: What's the difference between the HT269-GH262J-P#@/JKL and the HT269-GH262J-P#@/JKL v2?
Every spec sheet in existence for the two:
I'll do you one better: The 2 monitors I bought from the same brand a year apart are different in many slight ways, one is capable of like 24hz higher refresh rate, the other has more options in the settings menu, etc.
They have the exact same model number and documentation, the manufacturer just replaced the old one and documentation with a new one without specifying anything had changed.
The release year stat and the price are different
My comment from last time this was posted.
The most commonly cited monitor in recent years for this is “AW3423DWF”… Which is AlienWare 34" from 2023, DisplayPort, WQHD, Freesync.
Point is, people see a lot of characters and complain when in reality it is exactly what you are referring to. The name is an encoded version of its capabilities. Its just that the encoding isn’t always clear because if every company used the same encoding they would have the same name. and if there are 2 similar monitors you would need to have every feature in the name to differentiate them, so the shorthand encoding becomes necessary. (Eg, AW3423DW and AW3423DWF only really differ on freesync vs gsync, thus the F at the end)
Just give it a cool name like Deathstalker and put that information on the box.
The company itself, retailers, and business customers all need to be able to distinguish between different SKUs which vary in minor ways. Also I'm sure that a much higher percentage of monitors are sold to businesses than to consumers.
This guy gets it
Then release Deathstalker Pro, Deathstalker Max and Deathstalker Ultra so that it's easier for the users to know the difference
And of course it's updated with new versions a few times every year or so. So the Deathstalker Pro from the end of 2024 is actually better in many respects than the Deathstalker Ultra from 2022, but you'll have to check the fine print on the box to make sure you're getting the updated QD-OLED version, and not the older AMOLED version. If it has 220 Hz rather than 240 Hz it should be the newer model. Unless you live in South America, in which case they all use WOLED displays, though the specifications are the same so you have no way of knowing without opening it.
🤨🤨 What is WOLED
White OLED, every pixel uses a white OLED "backlight" to make the light and RGBW color filters to make the colors. It's one solution to some of shortcomings of earlier OLED technology like color degradation.
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i think bundling these features together in a brand name and incrementing it with version number would be more helpful.
having the "alienware porkchop 23" would allow people to become familiar with the branding and understand the featureset that this model comes with.
dwf does not mean anything to most.
That only works if you assume that there is something consistent to version. Some years it's a 34" ultra wide, some years it's a 32" 4k. Will there ever be another 34" ultra wide from alienware? Who knows! Not every monitor gets a revision. and if you have random names for 100 different monitors every year, that doesn't really help make sense of things either.
Alienware Monitor 7.... Well they release 100 different models a year, and every year thats going to increment, and consumers often conflate "bigger number better" so you better make sure you get the numbering right.
And "Porkchop" means absolutely nothing to anyone. DWF at least means something to some people. Going from 0% usefulness to even 10% usefulness is a good move.
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Sony and everything that isn't a PlayStation
I‘m sure the Playstation also has a horrible internal model name. It would be necessary to distinguish different variants.
I have a SCPH-7002, SCPH-50004, CECH-2004B and PSP-3004
Japan received the SCPH-1000, North America received the SCPH-1001, and Europe received the SCPH-1002.
i do not like this
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The missing tooth detail got me
Yeah that was a nice touch 👌👌
This method also works for display resolution names like WHKLWXD which is 4k but with six extra pixels on the left side.
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The naming pattern makes it easier to have different "models" per major retailer. This hinders consumer price comparisons.
or grey market imports. Like TVs in Eastern Europe have different codes than in Western Europe even when they are the same yet the Eastern European version is often cheaper. Like the only difference is the frequencies they accept on the CI+ module or something. But that doesn't matter for most people since they hook up the tv-box from the cable company trough HDMI anyways.
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Ah, yes. Like my highly successful
LG V ~60~ ^ThinQ^ 5GUW | DualScreen
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