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It won't be the next 24" 1080p. Even if someone makes a perfect 42" OLED like you suggest, you'll be buying a new one every 3 to 5 years because of burn in.

Likely this is caused by the difference in motion clarity from the faster response of the pixels on OLED.

Almost certainly can't mount it. The stand looks like a similar design to the Corsair bendable monitor and that one can't be VESA moutned because the stand contains most of the electronics to run the monitor. Its going to be an issue with all the bendable panels I'm afraid.

Very likely yes. People here are forgetting, but the reports on this panel were that Samsung was getting like 1/3 yields. That is abysmal even in the world of OLED. They also only had one line running for this panel. Limited capacity and abysmal yields meant this panel was never going to exist...

That's because the yield on those tiny 34" panels was only 30%, not because they only wanted to do a test release. Its going to be awhile before we see large QD-OLEDs or large supplies of them.

Biggest advantage is you only need an HDMI 2.0 compatible GPU for the Alienware. To get more than 60Hz on the LG you need a 3000 series card.

Monitor is available to buy on the main site now, but delivery dates are for June...

Thanks for the heads up. I had cancelled my order through the guest page in favor of the discount ones being posted for certain businesses, but bailed out. Some of these are probably honeypots to steal CC info.

Samsung keeps marketing this in portrait mode, which is a gimmick and stupid, but this thing in landscape mode could be a game changer. Its an ultrawide with more vertical space, which many many people have been clamoring for.

At 1440p this thing looks like a huge loser. Its going to be north of $2k and even if the picture quality and brightness is better, that's a lot more money than an LG 42" is going to cost. Combine that with the legendary samsung (lack of) QC and its a hard pill to swallow. If they released a...

If this has the same "curve" as the G7 its going to be DOA. Its frustrating that Samsung markets their monitors as 1000R because they are not that. They have a 1000R curve in the middle third of the monitor and then straight sides. This makes everything look terrible on the monitor because...

Seems like the performance is okay now, but they just can't manufacture these things. throw away 2 panels for every 1 you make and you can only make a million panels a year. You'd have to charge ten thousand dollars to turn a profit on a panel like that.

Doesn't bode well that Samsung isn't even going to be demoing their QD-OLED panels at CES. Likely means we're not going to see them in 2022.

Unless they are going to give more control over the dimming than the LG there doesn't seem to be much point to get one. Its doubtlessly going to be more than the LG and getting a DP port and a few extra Hz doesn't seem worth the extra cash.

People's sensitivity to refresh rates is extremely individual-dependent. I barely notice a difference between 60hz and 144hz and spent months trying to find ways to make sure my 144Hz monitor was actually working. But, I have friends who notice the difference between 120 and 144 and 144 and 165...

These kinds of monitors are for competitive FPS games. You can consistently hit 400 FPS on a strong rig in games like CSGO, Overwatch, and Valorant. Its a niche product, just like the 1600 Nit HDR monitors are niche products for niche segments of consumers.

If they are planning to cut these from defective 55" or 65" QD-OLED panels they will be 1440p. They'd need a standalone panel to make it 4K and I have a very hard time seeing Samsung investing into that for a first-gen product.

I expect these 34" panels are not going to be produced on their own and are likely a cost-recovery product. The yield on the substrates is 1/3 so they are probably going to be making these 34" panels from 55" and 65" panels that have defects. Hopefully that means prices aren't insane, but it...

I'd avoid doing this on an HDR TV. TVs are designed with heat venting on the top because heat rises. Most don't have any venting on the bottom. Some TVs get pretty toasty when doing lots of bright HDR scenes.

The Samsung and LG offerings at those sizes are both excellent. If you're not in a hurry though, I'd suggest waiting a few months. The current gen TVs have been out about 8 months now and the next generation will be announced late this year or early next. Likely worth waiting to see if the...

No way. The 43" is already going to be a small seller and the portion buying it to use as a PC monitor is going to be a very small portion of that. They are not going to cut into their gaming monitor sales just because LG sold a few hundred 42" OLEDs to enthusiasts using it as a monitor.

Where did they even find a panel with 144HZ and HDR600 that is only 1080p vertical?

Most modern GPUs and displays have chokes built into their internal circuitry. The shorter and thinner the cable, the less you need a choke.

I'm not sure there are any 40" panels left on the market. There are a handful of 43" panels out there of varying quality. If you can't do 43" though, you're probably limited to old 40" panels or a 32" monitor.

The 42" model is going to be targeted to console and PC gamers, so gimping the connectivity and refresh rate would be unthinkable if that's your target demographic. If anything I think you'll see them cheap out on things like the internal processor, resulting in worse image processing and...

They wouldn't gimp it. OLED TVs are already in the premium TV segment. Anyone who wants a cheaper TV will get a larger mainstream panel from someone like Vizio. The only reason smaller OLED panels haven't come to market sooner is they make OLED panels as large sheets of semiconductors. They cut...

I can't remember the guy's name (edit: found his website), but I recall someone doing that a few years back. They designed a custom PCB to be used with certain panels to have a quality low-lag high refresh rate monitor beyond what was available from consumer monitors at the time. I recall he...

I won't hold my breath. They haven't demoed this publicly yet and even if they do somehow launch a product, the fabrication of these panels is apparently extremely difficult, which means they are going to be extremely expensive.

Pretty much every Freesync display supports Gsync, even if not officially approved by Nvidia. I've yet to see a Freesync display that can't enable Gsync since Nvidia introduced Gsync compatibility.

Nothing really new here that hasn't been said in a hundred other views or debated thousands of times in the LG Oled thread. If you can deal with the huge negatives of having a dim 48" display, you won't find a faster or contrastier display.

He's running an SLI setup so I think what he's trying to do it render two different 4k images (one on each card), which is more efficient than having the two cards trying to render one 8k image (one card will bear the brunt of that as SLI doesn't evenly split the workload when rendering one image).

The answer to this question and those like it is always money. Aorus isn't making these monitors. They contract it out to some Chinese OEM and have them slap an AORUS logo on it. The Chinese OEM buys the panels from AUO or Samsung or Innolux or whoever makes the panel. They get paid a fixed...

The PC-specific features are well worth $100 over the C1 assuming they didn't fuck anything up. The PBP and KVM modes alone are worth more than 100 dollars to me on a monitor that size.

Its more accurate to say that DP 1.4 can do 8 bit color at 120 Hz with 4:4:4 rather than HDR. Practically speaking losing HDR will be the most noticeable loss, but 8 bit color vs. 10 bit color can have impacts even in SDR.

Considering the 1080s don't have HDMI 2.1 or support DSC, the upside is pretty limited. The 1080Ti can already do 60Hz at 4K on a lot of titles. Without inputs that support more bandwidth the upside of higher FPS on 4K content seems to be limited.

Has anyone tested out how the KVM and PBP work with 2 computers? Are you able to mouse seamlessly from one input to the other when using PBP or do you have to swap inputs in the KVM menu?

Its not going to be this year almost certainly. The 48" CX was announced in December 2019 and hit shelves in late spring/early summer 2020. I doubt they'd add the 42" to this year's lineup in the middle of the cycle, particularly because there's no "scrap" in their current fabs to source these...

Most of these monitors boasting high brightnesses are talking about peak brightness in a small portion of the screen. Full-screen peak brightness is very often much lower. If there's no local dimming the only value they can market is the full screen peak brightness.

Because the people its targeted at already spend thousands on monitors and aren't price sensitive because its a business monitor and the cost is paid by the business. That's why consumers shouldn't buy pro-focused monitors. Because the price is the primary thing that's pro-focused.

Hard to get excited about an edge lit monitor promising local dimming. At this size you're competing heavily with the LG OLEDs and this is going to be worse than that in everything except brightness and maybe longevity. But, this is likely to be more about as much more than the CX as a CX +...