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It was already quietly announced on 2th September but nobody noticed: https://www.samsung.com/ch/news/product/samsung-life-unstoppable/ Translated:

https://youtu.be/Qa0jZnrQrIA?t=359 @LinusTechgot the Samsung CRG9 (120 Hz/no DSC) confused with the Odyssey G9 (240 Hz /DSC). You can not only see it on the box, but also the back side is dark instead of white (G9 is white only), the lower 1800R curve instead of 1000R and then last but not least the blue shimmering Samsung logo and the non-clean bottom bezel (G9 has no OSD button prints on the bottom bezel). I know it's a bit confusing because Samsung has rebranded some old generation monitors as "Odyssey", but a techtuber should be able to get this right...

@Esgalion Yep, that's the same PR statement I received from Samsung as well, which is already linked in the first post.

Pictures of the rumored recall reason: Source 1 Source 2

Just to add to this, the refresh rate compliance at 240 Hz is even higher than the 90% I expected with 92.7%. And at 120 Hz 100%: Source

It doesn't matter what previous VA were capable of, the G7/G9 use a new generation VA panel. Here are detailed measurements @120 and 240 Hz, also showing Overshoot: Source

Almost got it. You just guessed wrong by a factor of 10.

Sure, here is another test of the G7: This is leagues above any previous VA panels we've seen. No black smearing at all. Overall the response times are now on par or better than IPS, even rivaling TN. Refresh Rate Compliance will be around 90% which is excellent. Previous 240 Hz VA panels, e.g. from the CRG5, were absolutely terrible when it comes to black smearing and refresh rate compliance (23.3%)

True for the last VA generations, however Samsung has made a huge step-up with the Odyssey G7/G9. Here are detailed G7 measurements: https://nl.hardware.info/monitoren.8/samsung-odyssey-g7-lc27g75t.574049#testresultaten Also we've seen multiple UFO tests from the G7/G9 already which show basically no black smearing (previously unthinkable with VA) and only some overshoot. The above review's measurements confirm that.

60.62 / 2.5 = 24.25. Literally what I just said. Why are you writing a wall of text trying to disprove what I just said even though you got the exact same result. As I said earlier, 5120 x 1440 @ 240 Hz HDR 10-bit & RGB/YCbCr444 Chroma with DSC 2.5x takes 24.25 Gbit/s out of the available 25.92 Gbit/s bandwidth. No.

Source? DSC 2.5x compression is enough to run 5120 x 1440 @ 240 Hz HDR 10-bit & 4:4:4 Chroma (24.25 Gbit/s out of 25.92 Gbit/s).

Here is another 5120 x 1440 @ 240 Hz HDR 10-bit & 4:4:4 Chroma confirmation: @LinusTech Kroon is probably confusing Chroma Subsampling with DSC. It doesn't matter to the human eye whether DSC is just visually lossless or mathematically lossless. Any test of DSC I have seen so far says there is no perceptable difference, so the marketing "visually lossless" appears to be true. Test 1 TFTCentral: Test 2 Guru3D:

Read the owner's comment again carefully. Both RGB and YCbCr444 can be selected @ 240 Hz 10-bit. If you select YCbCr444 -> limited output dynamic range and RGB -> full output dynamic range. Also I've provided an official source from Samsung themselves. Hope that helps.

Both the predecessor CRG9 and the Odyssey G9 are DisplayHDR 1000 certified. Takes like two seconds to look up: https://displayhdr.org/certified-products/ Just like the predecessor the Odyssey G9 has 10 dimming zones. One glaring mistake I found in the video is Linus claiming the Odyssey G9 only supports 240 Hz when using 8-bit. We've already had multiple owners confirm that it can run the full 5120 x 1440 @ 240 Hz HDR 10-bit & 4:4:4 Chroma and even Samsung themselves have confirmed it.

850€ is not too bad, considering the XB270HU still costs 750€.