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Samsung's marketing is geared toward the kinds of people whose eyes glaze over

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the second they hear terms like QD OLED

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panel freesync premium Pro or USB power

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delivery all of which are included on this Monitor and yet all of which are

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absent from its product page I mean for many gamers this process is enough but

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this is Linus Tech tips you all want hey need to know every little detail when

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you're shopping for a gaming Monitor and Samsung yes sponsored this video packed

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this display to the gills with features that I get to tell you about including

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their incredible qdo-led panel that we

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have already seen in Action a couple of times and absolutely fallen in love with

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I mean it's not cheap but it did say

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Odyssey G8 in the title so you already knew it was going to be among the best

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gaming displays on the planet let's crack our open inside the Box we find

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some things we expect like a monitor stand and a Visa adapter it's a curved

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monitor so you'll need one of these if you want to use it with a base amount it's nice that that's included and some

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things we don't expect like a remote

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that's right the OLED G8 packs in a

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bunch of the same features that you would find in Samsung's Smart TVs like

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built-in streaming apps and even some free TV channels through Samsung TV plus

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which is great if you want a display that can pull double duty as a more

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tv-like experience say if you're living in a dorm room or something and it's got

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a couple of 5 watt speakers which sound surprisingly usable actually maybe even

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good

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stand assembly is a straightforward Affair we've got a nice Hefty base for

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the bottom that screws on with two number two Phillips head screws lttstore.com

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but as much as I love stands this

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this is the centerpiece it

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it worked on this

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OLED a grand total of zero times on

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their product page for the OLED G8 seriously go look go check I'll wait but

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they should because this panel is based on the exact same technology as

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Samsung's s95b TV and is as close as you

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can get to zero compromises every pixel

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on it turns off completely for incredibly deep blacks and because you

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don't need to wait for the crystals to slowly change positions like on an LCD

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this is the fastest display in Samsung's

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lineup with pixels boasting response times of just 0.1 milliseconds gray to

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Gray in practice this results in virtually no blur to all 3440 by 1440

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pixels especially if you're running at the maximum 175 Hertz refresh rate none

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of that is what makes this so special

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though any Outlet is going to be fast with deep blacks QD OLED uses a quantum

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dot layer to overcome traditional OLED's biggest shortcomings though like subpar

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brightness and the potential for burning it also significantly pumps up the color

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gamut for the best looking gaming that we've ever seen we should probably have

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a game open let's get it let's get a game going here what do you think should we mix it up

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and go with do maternal I don't have it installed on here you bastard

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how dare how dare you no it is installed

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oh yes oh got him we have a much more detailed

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explanation in this video here but the short version is that Quantum dots are

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particles that get excited by one wavelength of light then with Incredible

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efficiency turn that into a different wavelength of light so instead of rgbw

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sub pixels that shine out in their respective colors W is white to boost

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brightness at the expense of saturation you get a single color of OLED panel

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that excites an RGB quantum dot layer in

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front of it this allows that single color OLED panel behind it to wear out

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much more gracefully over time ploof

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from our writing team for example has been gaming on his qdo-led for six

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months already with no sign of burn-in whatsoever and it does all of this while

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boosting brightness and improving color saturation thanks to the absence of that

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white subpixel of course there's a lot more to a monitor than just the stand

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Samsung included their Neo Quantum processor to help with a number of

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things starting of course with hey cool

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look at that that's their upgraded correlating module with core sync and it

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helps with image optimization and Powers the tizen-based smart entertainment

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media and gaming Hub that helps improve gaming scaling through the use of

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machine learning media and gaming center on a monitor that's right built right

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into the monitor is access to all your favorite streaming apps including game

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streaming apps like GeForce now and Xbox game pass ultimate so you can play a ton

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of amazing games without worrying about your power hungry PC heating up your

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room it also enables the OLED G8 to support AMD freesync premium Pro which

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gives you the benefits of variable refresh rate with HDR so you get a great

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picture with strong resistance to tearing or to stuttering even if your

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system is struggling to hold a steady 60fps frame rate I know this is the

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older Horizon but does this ever look so good it's worth

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noting by the way that do maternal can only run High refresh rate or HDR

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because the game doesn't support freesync premium Pro Horizon zero Dawn

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on the other hand butter smooth with HDR men is that ever

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gorgeous not the most ergonomic setup

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that I've created for myself here this stand by the way supports height adjust

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as well as tilt this also gives us a

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better look at the i o which is a little unusual on this monitor it's got a mini

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DisplayPort 1.4 a micro HDMI 2.1 one

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USBC port and a USBC port with power

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delivery this last one is great because it can do up to 65 Watts meaning that

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you can use the monitor as an additional display with your laptop and charge your

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laptop while you're doing that for a one cable solution this is great for

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students or I mean really anyone who wants to minimize cable clutter also

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perfect for watching movies in the dorm the OLED G8 is going to be joining

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Samsung's monitor lineup alongside the Neo G8 which uses a mini LED backlight

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with a traditional LCD panel which probably raises the question why would

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you go with one over the other well let me tell you if you find that

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you're particularly sensitive to color fringing like you would find on a cutie

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OLED today or if you're in a room where you have no light control and it's super

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bright the brighter picture of the Neo G8 could make it a better choice but if

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you're pretty much anyone else I would recommend sticking with the OLED G8 but

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in the future the Neo might actually lose one of its only two advantages

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let's talk about color fringing because

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of the unique triangle subpixel layout of QD OLED sharp lines can render with

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distracting green and pink outlines this is something that affects all qdo-led

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panels no matter which company is making the display now for me and actually

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almost everyone else we pulled in the office it's the kind of thing that I

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would forget within a week or two besides my home PC is almost exclusively

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used for gaming where you won't notice it at all but for Adam who worked on

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this video it's a deal breaker so what's the solution

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well to understand the solution we need to also understand the problem and the

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current situation is partly thanks to Microsoft to improve text rendering in

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Windows Microsoft uses clear type which

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is kind of this color trickery that takes the subpixels around black text

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and slightly colors them to soften edges

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giving fonts a smoother less aliased appearance

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but this is a super new panel with an

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unusual triangular subpixel layout remember it's currently unsupported by

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clear type that means that the wrong values are getting sent to those

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subpixels causing green tops and pink bottoms now this effect can be mitigated

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by changing the scaling in Windows or sitting a little bit farther away from

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your display but those just make the fringing less noticeable rather than

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eliminating it completely another option is to use better clear type tuner which

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is a program that lets you adjust the same settings that Windows clear type

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does but in a useful Manner and it helps

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but it doesn't quite resolve the issue so realizing that we were committed to

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this rabbit hole we kept going and sought out the more granular Mac type

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which allows for low level access to Windows text rendering with Mac type you

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can actually configure the exact coordinates of each subpixel to force

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Windows clear type to properly smooth the tech next and when it works it looks

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amazing which is great news because it means it's not a hardware problem like

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you haven't seen text until you've seen the kind of contrast that you get with

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deep blacks like this but thanks to Windows 10's wonky

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approach to text rendering Mac type requires such deep access to our system

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that our corporate antivirus actually alerted our sysadmin while he was on

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vacation and it wiped out the program on its own like we're talking registry

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edits and more it also ended up breaking a bunch of software now it's possible

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that with more time we could have made it run a bit smoother but there's a

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catch it doesn't even fix all the text on your system lots of apps like Chrome

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and hilariously even Microsoft Office don't use Windows to render text rather

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they'll use an alternative like free type which also doesn't support this new

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subpixel layout meaning that even if the text in Windows looks crisp it'll still

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be wonky pretty much everywhere else so please Microsoft free type project

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everyone I'm begging you support this

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new pixel layout you'll find a link to the Odyssey OLED G8 in the video

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description it's already amazing and if I get my way it's only going to get

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better if you guys like this video why don't you check out the one where we sent

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James to a quantum dot Factory to learn just what the heck they are and how

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they're made