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for years I did very few monitor videos because I don't really like making

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videos about them unless there's some really compelling new feature or design

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idea that I'm excited about now as you may have noticed over the last year or

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so I've done a lot of monitor videos it's been a heck of a year g-sync free

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sync slim bezels High refresh rate Ultra HD Ultra wide the list goes kind of on

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and on doesn't it well now it's going to go on some more because the LG 31 m97 is

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the first monitor I've ever laid eyes on that features a 17 by9 aspect ratio and

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a true 4K native resolution so what's it

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like then

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e save on select Intel Core i7 processors and 730 series ssds with

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learn more let's get this out of the way right now this is not a gaming monitor

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it's not intended to be a gaming Monitor and frankly the gaming experience won't

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light anyone's world on fire I measured total input lag as high as 27

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milliseconds or so so more than a frame and almost no one has a graphics card

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that's capable of driving modern tripa games at its 4096 X 2160 resolution

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anyway that's 8.85 million pixels or 4

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and A4 times as many as 1080p even the

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3840 X 2160 resolution that most consumers refer to as 4K but is

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technically actually UHD is only 8.3

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million pixels so hold on a second then lus what the actual devil is this weird

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resolution for the answer is professional work and when you re-exam

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in the 31 mu 97 in that context the

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$1,400 price point makes a lot more sense let's begin with a physical tour

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though the ID is plain looking and definitely businesslike with a mostly

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gladish not particularly thin front bezel design simple LG branding on the

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front and an unassuming looking plastic covered metal stand but there's some

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good news here the ergonomics and functionality of the aformentioned stand

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are pretty businesslike as well it lacks

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swivel something I kind of wish it had although an LG's defense the same

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functionality can be achieved by simply repositioning the entire base but it

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does have tilt a wide range of height adjust pivot yes for those of you who

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love portrait mode and a Vasa compliant mount on the back that I was able to use

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easily with three of these bad boys on a

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yes so yes 25 million pixels on an OBU

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gaming slw workstation cockpit setup in this video here that was freaking

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awesome I have never seen screen real estate like that before on the bottom of

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the display we find a pretty healthy mix of IO these dual HDMI ports are

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unfortunately not HDMI 2.0 compliant

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which would allow them to operate at 60 HZ at Native resolution but the dual

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DisplayPort 1.2 inputs one of which is full size and one of which is a mini

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kind of makes up for that for me with the included fulls size to mini cable it

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gives users the flexibility to easily connect this monitor to either a desktop

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or a notebook without buying any adapters or new cables out of the box

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finally down here we've got the Uplink for the 3port USB 3.0 Hub that should

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accommodate most of what sits on the desk next to your monitor and the

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control joystick that LG has been including on at least their high-end

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monitors lately and that I personally really really like finally the front

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where we find the satisfyingly large 31in panel which is actually a great

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size for someone coming from an older 30-in professional grade monitor since

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the vertical height is almost identical with the extra inch contributing to a

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slightly wider field of view although I suspect a good number of those folks

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will be upgrading with the misguided notion that they'll be able to utilize

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the 31 muu 97's 35% more vertical

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pixels which likely won't be the case

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now I have pretty good Vision a little shy of 2020 so I do have a prescription

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that sharpens things up a little bit and at a reasonable distance without my

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glasses I can use this display without

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scaling and with my glasses everything is actually reasonably sharp but for

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long periods it wasn't comfortable to use like that under either scenario so I

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think most people would require scaling within their operating system for

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optimal text readability for those that can handle it though it is definitely

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cool to have easily enough horizontal pixels for three to four pieces of

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content but frankly if my goal was pure business and productivity and spreading

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things out I would choose LG's own 3497 or 34 UC 97 over this one since

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they require no scaling and the ultra wide format makes side by side by side a

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total pleasure to use all right then so this monitor is for professionals if not

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necessarily the ones who are focused on spreadsheets well then which ones ah

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video and Imaging Professionals and it's got some pretty neat features to appeal

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to those folks so first up is the 10bit LED backlit matte finish IPS panel

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something that will benefit the folks with appropriate Hardware software and

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more than anything else the need for it so content creators because While most

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LCD computer displays out there are 8 bit or even 6bit with f FRC tricks to

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achieve more than the native number of colors more granularity allows content

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creators to more accurately match a Target color in the original work so

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that regardless of which medium it eventually ends up being displayed on

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web print broadcast Cinema whatever the case may be it will be as close as

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possible to what they were trying to achieve which leads us into what really

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is the killer app of this monitor for me now the number of bits per channel for

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color actually has little to do with the

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total color gamut or range of colors that a monitor can represent it's just

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how many intermediary steps there are within that range and that is where the

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31 m97 really shines compared to a typical consumer monitor or even the

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entrylevel prosumer ones that I've seen in the past it comes pre-calibrated from

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the factory with a handy dandy little report that you get in the box and

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covers one 100% of the srgb color space so this would be suitable for work that

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will be viewed on the web or realistically most General use color

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applications 99.5% of the Adobe RGB color space

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considered suitable for working with higher bit depth images and depending on

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your printer setup sometimes desired for print and then this is where the video

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Geeks Jaws will drop 97% of the dcip P3 Digital Cinema color

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space which I guess makes sense since given it digal Cinema standard

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resolution that will also make users able to preview their Cinema bound work

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at one to1 on this display means this is kind of who they were targeting with

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this now to be clear this is not the best available grading display for DCI

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you can get 100% coverage with a Dolby PRM 4220 a 42in 1080p display that

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features specialized dual modulation dimming technology and costs tens of

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thousands of dollars but at under under 5% of the cost for this Monitor and a

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solid calibration system to keep it running at Peak efficiency for 97% of

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the results it looks pretty darn appealing and there's one more super

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cool feature too being able to preview one color space next to another one

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that's in use on the rest of the monitor is amazing that way if a project is

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going to be utilized in multiple ways you can quickly ensure that you're going

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to get the desired results across different media

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but while PC users with DisplayPort 1.2 outputs can rejoice and basically go

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start buying these puppies up some mac users have been complaining now I've

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been saying for some time that due to its lack of expandability limited RAM

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capacity and a number of other reasons the late 2013 Mac Pro is not a serious

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workstation and now I'm getting some more ammunition for my gun Apple users

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are reporting that single tile 4K that is real 4K not Ultra HD displays like

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the 30 1 m97 are only capable of running

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at 50 HZ on the Mac Pro at their native resolution it appears to be a driver

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issue since there's no problem running at 60 HZ on similar class AMD cards in

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Windows so hopefully this is something that Apple will address because aside

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from still not supporting 10 pit color per Channel like Windows users have been

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enjoying an adobe applications like Photoshop for years Apple users won't be

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able to run at full res and refresh rate on their shiny new toy SL productivity

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tool which would definitely be a fly in

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