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Oh great now I gotta play twister to get to that port
Probably....socal got me convinced to update FW.
Geeezuuusssss!
The QC on these monitors seems to be absolutely horrible still. Maybe this one is extra difficult to make considering the size and the curve. And also I would imagine that it is infact two panels joined togheter to make it dual 4K, do we actually know this or if it infact a one LCD panel? Seems reasonable that it would kind of be two Neo G8s glued togheter but don't know.
I don't think its two panels joined together because its characteristics are much different from the Neo G8 (way more efficient, lower native contrast, etc). I really like the monitor but its too big, bulky, and a PITA to haul around boxes and unpack over and over for me to continue pursuing one.
lol you are convincing me to give it another shot now because I share the same sentiment about it as you. Going to let the thought marinate over lunch.
I've seen some failures on the G9 series people have posted where it started having different brightness levels on the left vs right side of the display, as if split into two 16:9 panels. I don't think it's two Neo G8 (or the previous panel iterations) glued together but actually built as a single panel. It might have some shenanigans how it's handled by the rest of the hardware.
I saw that several times on the two 57" I have had home so far, it usually goes away after a reboot and not to be seen again in at least a few weeks. But you can't help but to wonder what is causing it...
Lookin good!
Yeah this is some DSC bug. You can see the slices/partitions that DSC splits the screen up for compression.
My 49" OLED G9 has been perfect. I think I am just extremely fortunate, as I've heard horror stories about my monitor as well, such as the monitor randomly cracking in half. I also have a 75" Samsung Neo QLED TV that hasn't had any issues except for some weird software glitch that techs came out and fixed by wiping and installing the firmware. There are tons of reports of these QC issues with Samsung.
You bet! Currently waiting on a replacement to ship. Realized nothing beats the combination of form factor, resolution, refresh rate (with a 5090) and HDR performance right now.
Having tried out both, the OLED G9 just feels like a much more refined modern product (at least to me). Like comparing maybe a Tesla Model S to a muscle car
I'm pretty impressed with the build quality overall. I've never owned a monitor before where I'm amazed every single time I use it. It's truly amazing.Having tried out both, the OLED G9 just feels like a much more refined modern product (at least to me). Like comparing maybe a Tesla Model S to a muscle car
I was mostly refering to the "look and feel" of the actual hardware rather than the PQ itself even though I would still rate OLED higher for game and entertainment but not for productivity and screen area. Now, this doesn't mean that the 57" isn't good for game and entertainment as well, it is, but perhaps just not in a side by side with a last gen OLED.
I use this every day for productivity including video editing, graphics design, and photography. It's been very good at just about everything for me. Obviously, there are better monitors for very specific tasks, but this feels like a jack-of-all-trades monitor for me and the pros outweigh any of the cons. I don't feel claustrophobic with my workflow anymore so I don't have anxiety working at my desk for long hours. The screen area is phenomenal, so I'm not sure what you by that, unless you are just referring to the height of the monitor. This is basically two 27" monitors side-by-side, but I've always hated dual monitor set ups with the big divide in the middle. It's nice having the entire width of my field of view being all display. Also, I much prefer the less intense curve of this monitor compared to the other curved monitors.
To me the big issue with it is the Samsung Tizen OS is a huge pile of crap. It's such an amateur hour UI design with all settings buried deep under various menus and it tends to be slow. Plus the OLED G9 apparently doesn't even have the 21:9 + 11:9 PbP split option.Having tried out both, the OLED G9 just feels like a much more refined modern product (at least to me). Like comparing maybe a Tesla Model S to a muscle car
Then you should probably get the cheaper OLED G9 without Tizen OS (G93) if interested in the OLED G9. And again, I am mostly referring to product design here, as I think the 57" version is bulky, thick, heavy etc compared to the OLED G9 and also looks a bit dated to me. But this is just my personal preference, YMMV of course.
I didn't know they made one without it! That's nice.
The screen is pretty versatile. Some games I play at 5120x2160, others I play at 6000x2160 or 6720x2160. Just depends on the game performance and the extent to which a game stretches FOV at the edges. Forbidden west maxed with DLSS quality at native res sits at like 80FPS so if a 5090 offers the same jump from 3090 to 4090, that's 120-130FPS and 140+ if settings are optimized. The problem with 240FPS even at native 4K is even if the GPU performance is there, most triple A titles are held back by some CPU/game engine bottleneck anyway so you'll never really break like 150-160FPS which is what I realized owning a Neo G8.
Your reasons are similar to why I'm still interested in the monitor, but I'll probably wait until Black Friday sales to see if the price drops low enough to be worth the hassle. Until then I'll stick to my dual 4K 144 Hz 28" monitors + LG CX 4K 120 Hz 48" OLED TV for gaming instead.
