Sony Electronics lists new InZone monitors for gamers

Sony Electronics Two new products were introduced today Intra-regional Monitors aimed at gamers, focusing on everyone from amateur gamers to esports professionals.

The Sony Inzone M9 II is a cheaper 4K display that displays 160 images per second, while the Sony Inzone M10S is a 4K display that can display 480 frames per second. It is a WOLED monitor.

The high-end M10S display was developed with input from esports athletes, including the Fnatic esports organization.

Sony Inzone M9 II 4K 27 inch screen

The displays include the 27-inch Inzone M9 II, which focuses on brightness and contrast. It’s a 4K FALD monitor that runs at 160Hz and has a resolution of 2160pm, Valerie Chi, a product manager at Sony, told GamesBeat in an interview.

The 160Hz number means it can display 160 frames per second, compared to around 60 frames per second for many typical monitors. An IPS monitor has a response time of 1 millisecond to minimize artifacts like blurring and ghosting. It is a gray-to-gray display.

It also features full-array local dimming, borrowed from Sony Bravia TV technology and algorithms. It delivers brighter highlights and deeper blacks for better depth perception. It also features backlight scanning to reduce motion blur across the entire screen.

“We’re adapting the cinematic, full-array technology from our Sony Bravia TVs to this monitor, which would be great for immersive gaming and storytelling games. So something like Elden ring or Monster Hunter, Balder’s Gate III or Black Myth Wukong,” Chi said.

With backlight scanning, the display flashes the backlight sequentially from the top to the bottom of the screen with each frame, reducing dwell time and motion blur across the entire screen.

The display has a variable refresh rate. You can dynamically adjust the display refresh rate to match the variable frame rates of the gaming device output and eliminate stuttering, lag, and screen tearing for a smoother, more fluid gaming experience. Compatible with a wide range of graphics cards and gaming consoles, including Nvidia GeForce, AMD Radeon, Intel Arc, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.

The display has a wide color gamut, capable of displaying 1.07 billion colors compared to 16.7 million colors for many high-end displays. This makes for better sunsets. It has a peak brightness of over 600 nits.

Chi said the monitor is aimed at core gamers and streamers, mainstream gamers and casual gamers — that’s a pretty good slice of the gamer pyramid — but it doesn’t fully cover esports.

The monitor has modes that are fine-tuned for gamers. It has a mode for first-person shooters that emphasize HDR and speed. It can also support a mode for multiplayer online battle arenas (MOBA games like League of Legends) and real-time strategy (RTS games like Homeworld 3). It can also support movies and some other modes like role-playing games and a more general gaming mode.

Chi said that by adjusting color saturation and sharpness in MOBA/RTS mode, you can distinguish objects more easily during the game.

It supports auto HDR tone mapping for PS5. This means that your PS5 consoles will automatically recognize InZone gaming monitors during initial setup and optimize HDR settings. Even in high-contrast scenes, you’ll see important details and colors in the brightest and darkest parts of the screen, Chi said.

With the Auto genre picture mode, InZone gaming monitors automatically switch to Game Mode, which makes the action more responsive by minimizing input lag while gaming, or to Cinema Mode, which shifts the focus to the image processing for a more immersive picture when watching a movie from a Blu-ray disc or via a streaming service on PS5.

If you’re serious about first-person shooters, the monitor can also switch to a 24.5-inch display mode that will improve your aim, sharpen the image, and provide greater motion clarity. On a 27-inch frame, it might be easier to pick out targets with 2160p resolution, but with a 24.5-inch frame, it might be easier to see all the action at once.

“You might not want to use this because you want to use the entire 27-inch screen, but the option is there depending on how you like to play your games,” Chi said.

It has a gameplay aid in the form of the Black Equalizer, which reveals shadow to help you see enemies in the dark. It also has a frame rate counter to show how smoothly the game is running, a crosshair to improve aiming, and a timer to track elapsed time.

The on screen display has a small joystick on the back of the monitor that will allow you to switch to the correct mode for the monitor. It also has PC software for on screen display menu control so you can use the PC to easily adjust your monitor settings.

It comes with a small-sized ergonomic display stand with a diameter of 177 millimeters and a base of 8mm to 13mm, freeing up more space on the desktop.

You can easily fit an angled keyboard and a large gaming mouse pad around or under the screen, and the stand is also sufficiently sturdy and stable.

The screen can be easily rotated. You can rotate the screen 180 degrees so you can easily connect and disconnect cables while sitting in front of your desk. It has I/O ports that include DisplayPort 2.1 (up to 4K 160Hz), two ports for HDMI 2.1 (up to 4K 144Hz), USB Type-B (upstream to PC, USB 5Gbps), two ports for USB Type-A (downstream from PC, USB 5Gbps), a 3.5mm jack for audio, and a USB Type-A for software updates.

It is G-Sync compatible, supports DisplayPort 2.1, and has 2W x 2 built-in speakers.

Sony InZone M10S 4K 27 inch screen

This display has a 27-inch OLED QHD display with a 480Hz refresh rate. It focuses on immersive visuals and responsiveness. And yes, this is aimed at e-sports players and everyone else at the bottom of the pyramid.

It has an OLED display with a Quad HD 1440p/480Hz refresh rate and a 0.03ms gray-to-gray response time. The latest console games have a refresh rate of 120Hz.

Sony says that with sub-2.0ms input lag at 480Hz, the display creates a distinct competitive advantage by leading to more responsive on-screen interaction when using your mouse or other controller.

Like other monitors, it has a variable refresh rate, meaning you can dynamically adjust the screen refresh rate to match the variable frame rates of your gaming device output, eliminating stuttering, lag, and screen tearing for a smoother, more fluid gaming experience. It also works with graphics cards and game consoles. It has the same color gamut of 1.07 billion colors.

Fnatic recommendation

This was developed in collaboration with esports athletes at Fnatic, with a focus on tournament use that emphasizes speed and performance. Pro features include a 24.5” screen tournament mode with FPSPro+ and FPS Pro modes. These modes are tuned based on recommendations from esports players.

In 24.5-inch mode, the M10S can display games at 1332p 1:1 resolution with a refresh rate of up to 480Hz.

“Using our professional esports knowledge and experience in the competitive arena, we are developing a tournament-ready monitor that emphasizes features such as speed and performance,” Chi said.

It has the same ergonomic footprint and targets pro gamers, core competitive gamers, core gamers and streamers, mainstream gamers and casual gamers. It also has the same 24.5-inch display mode on a 27-inch screen. And it can handle the same game modes as the other monitor.

The Inzone M10S features a 24.5-inch mode that displays 1332p games at 1:1 resolution with a refresh rate of up to 480Hz. Gamers can also choose lower resolutions, including 1080p, which is ideal for esports users.

“Being able to work with Sony on the product from the very beginning is a big deal. I’m looking forward to it.
“I’ve been playing on it,” Jake ‘Boaster’ Howlett of the Fnatic Valorant team said in a statement. “I’m a big fan of FPS Pro+ because it allows me to see agents much more clearly than I could manually on my own.”

Timofey ‘Chronicle’ Khromov from the Fnatic Valorant team also commented in a statement, “I’ve been working on the development of the Inzone M10S and I’m happy to have some influence to help improve the products. An OLED monitor is the best solution for me with zero response time and very good color gamut, it gives me no excuses for bad performance! This is the end game for gaming monitors.”

Sony also said that this display has self-illuminating OLED pixels, providing an immersive gaming experience with its brightness, contrast ratio, accurate color expression and viewing angle.

It has a peak brightness of 1,300 nits, perfect black, and infinite contrast of 1.5 million to 1 contrast ratio. It is only 5.9 millimeters thick at its thinnest point. Sony says the WOLED display has advantages over QD-OLED.

The device is so fast that Sony has to cool it. It has an internal aluminum panel that distributes the heat of the panel evenly, preventing the risk of burning.

It also has a multi-layer thermal structure (passive cooling system) for efficient and effective thermal radiation of chipsets. It has sandwich thermal structure for T-con chipset, so it can dissipate heat from top to bottom with double aluminum plate and thermal pad set. And it has fanless airflow with special heatsink for scaler chipset. It can dissipate heat with special heatsink and metallic cover plate.

“This monitor has a high-performance cooling structure to help prevent burn-in, which is a big thing when it comes to OLED,” Chi said. “And the passive cooling system is fanless and very quiet. The passive cooling system helps bring the heat from the bottom up. It’s a vertical vent.”

It shares other common user interface features with the other monitor and has an e-sports-friendly ergonomically designed stand. With a small footprint, it makes it easy to place a keyboard and mouse around the monitor. It also has a stand with an adjustment scale guide for easy setup. It has the same ports as the other device.

The M9 II retails for $800, while the M10S retails for $1,100. The M10S is available now at Sony.com, Amazon, Best Buy, and other authorized retailers. The M9 II gaming monitor is available now at Sony.com, Amazon, Best Buy, and other authorized retailers.