5K goes ULTRAWIDE

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4 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

but ALL resolutions were marketed as "beautiful HD", and become a problem since many sites didn't list resolutions and you had to search for the laptop M/n manually, many of which had multiple options under the same m/n, especially stuff like dell latitudes and precisions. 

Wow.  Well I don't remember that issue... if a site straight up didn't list resolution in the tech specs page I'd just move on to a competent retailer.  Best Buy traditionally was bad for their spec pages but I don't recall that being an issue even from them (or Future Shop at the time).

[Charlie Hotel Echo]

Any word on how it handles Adobe RGB? As a creative I'm keen to find out more about how this monitor handles colour.

[Syntaxvgm]

28 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Wow.  Well I don't remember that issue... if a site straight up didn't list resolution in the tech specs page I'd just move on to a competent retailer.  Best Buy traditionally was bad for their spec pages but I don't recall that being an issue even from them (or Future Shop at the time).

I recall having trouble finding it in the manufacture's site at times, have to separately look up specs. 

Keep in mind this was 6+ years ago 

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Just now, Syntaxvgm said:

I recall having trouble finding it in the manufacture's site at times, have to separately look up specs. 

Keep in mind this was 6+ years ago 

Hm well that's pretty bad That said, yeah I can't say I recall that situation myself but *shrug*

[Syntaxvgm]

31 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Hm well that's pretty bad That said, yeah I can't say I recall that situation myself but *shrug*

I did shop for consumer laptops for a while for a lot of people (since I did repairs or bought for people). Typically stuff like professional, prosumer, and gaming was much easier to find correct info on. 

[Dylanc1500]

They should just leave the 2K, 4K, 8K, and 16K monikers to the DCI cinematic standards. Then with TVs they could have stuck with "blank definition," instead of trying to bank roll on a "theatre experience." 

 

Monitors should stick to x by y and "Graphics Array" naming convention that has been around for forever. 

[Cereal5]

I'm so glad you referenced the taco shell commercial. I do it so much and no one gets it and I'm all like "...guys... you're all lame."

[williamcll]

 

I wonder if two RTX 2080Ti can drive this monitor to 60fps with RTX on

14 hours ago, Tech_Dreamer said:

 

Literally meme material.

 

[SolarNova]

I've recommend to people to check this monitor out for a little while now due to it having both ultra wide and 2160p resolution, i was also tempeted at 1st glance to consider it as a replacment for my aging 42" Plasma, alass i still cant bring myself to spend that much money on a display that still uses the flawed LCD display tech., theres no way i can accept any level of backlight bleed, and those non black 'blacks'.

 

I was looking forward to seeing some good hands on reviews, alass the 1st one i come across is LTT.

 

No offense guys but LTT display reviews have never been great, more like 'after unboxing' videos rather than full reviews.

I mean, did this video really tell us anything about the monitor that we didnt already know from LG's specs....

 

I'd very much like to see LTT get more indepth with their Display reviews.  You showed color accuracy and coverage, and white uniformity, but didnt show anything about black uniformity, 5% uniformity, Pixel latency, input latency, viewing angles etc. You could also show us what kind of performance one could expect running at such a high resolution, what FPS could you expect from a 1080ti, or a 2080ti ..or 2 of ether/both.

 

Let me be clear, i like watching LTT videos, they are 'entertaining' and also sometimes 'informative', but iv never felt that way about your Display videos, apart from your OTT multi monitor contraptions which are rather entertaining to watch, ur 'normal' display 'reviews' are neither imo. Its not that you dont talk about some technical apsects,you do, its that you dont do enough of it, and dont compare the results from one monitor to the next.

[Enderman]

 

43 minutes ago, SolarNova said:

I've recommend to people to check this monitor out for a little while now due to it having both ultra wide and 2160p resolution, i was also tempeted at 1st glance to consider it as a replacment for my aging 42" Plasma, alass i still cant bring myself to spend that much money on a display that still uses the flawed LCD display tech., theres no way i can accept any level of backlight bleed, and those non black 'blacks'.

 

I was looking forward to seeing some good hands on reviews, alass the 1st one i come across is LTT.

 

No offense guys but LTT display reviews have never been great, more like 'after unboxing' videos rather than full reviews.

I mean, did this video really tell us anything about the monitor that we didnt already know from LG's specs....

 

I'd very much like to see LTT get more indepth with their Display reviews.  You showed color accuracy and coverage, and white uniformity, but didnt show anything about black uniformity, 5% uniformity, Pixel latency, input latency, viewing angles etc. You could also show us what kind of performance one could expect running at such a high resolution, what FPS could you expect from a 1080ti, or a 2080ti ..or 2 of ether/both.

 

Let me be clear, i like watching LTT videos, they are 'entertaining' and also sometimes 'informative', but iv never felt that way about your Display videos, apart from your OTT multi monitor contraptions which are rather entertaining to watch, ur 'normal' display 'reviews' are neither imo. Its not that you dont talk about some technical apsects,you do, its that you dont do enough of it, and dont compare the results from one monitor to the next.

Yeah, their tests are far from scientific.

rtings does a much better job reviewing displays objectively.

[SolarNova]

13 minutes ago, Enderman said:

 

Yeah, their tests are far from scientific.

rtings does a much better job reviewing displays objectively.

Indeed i would love to see rtings review this monitor, alass so far it only has 1 vote on the 'review next' list, so i dont see it happening any time soon

[SuicidalLabRat]

My recollection was that VESA's DP 1.4 standard defined 5K/8btc @ 85HZ.  I expected their certification would require LG implement a controller that could drive the panel at that refresh rate. Can anyone speak to why this display would be limited to a seemingly substandard 60HZ?  

 

Note: I own this display, but have yet to tether it to a cpu for testing.

 

SLR-

[Angelus13AOV]

This is a pretty damn awesome monitor. Just watched the review on it. Hopefully we get more like these.

[SolarNova]

Update:

 

For those interested, Rtings has done a 'proper' review of this monitor now.

 

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/lg/34wk95u

 

TLDR: The bad : Poor Contrast, Terrible Local Dimming, Poor Black Uniformity

 

It also, while rated as excellent on pixel response, is still a 15ms (100%) panel, u would want around 10ms for a truly excellent IPS panel. Input lag how ever is good at only 9ms.

 

 

So i now know i made the right choice steering away form this display, the dark performance of this monitor is truly horrible, i wouldnt be able to stand it.