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yes monitor I shall I shall do your bidding hook you up to a fast gaming PC

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you say yes yes I will here's a good one what's the difference between my dream

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monitor specs and the specs of the Samsung Odyssey Neo G8

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absolutely nothing get it

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okay but seriously Samsung sponsored this video and once again I would have

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done it anyway because this thing looks absolutely amazing 4K

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240 hertz one millisecond response time

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with an IPS type panel HDR 2 000 wait

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sorry 2 000 nits Peak brightness with a

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mini LED backlight with over 1100 local

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dimming zones this promises to be the

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gaming monitor oh that's a tight curve

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this is 32 inches 1000r which means it

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is designed for that gamer posture gonna be right here full immersion ladies and

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gentlemen coming around back there's lots to talk about starting with their

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Odyssey aesthetic including RGB lighting along with inputs so we've got

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DisplayPort we're gonna need that for 4K 240 hertz and two HDMI ports that are

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capable of smart input switching so as soon as a device fires up CEC style it

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can grab that input and switch over to it we've also got an integrated USB hub

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with two type A ports an audio jack as well as a 20 volt DC power in and some

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of the most understated marketing that I think Samsung has ever done on the one

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hand they're like Linus you gotta mention the quantum mini LED and Quantum

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HDR 2000 and on the other hand they're like yeah it's a color display unit it's

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not technically wrong I just think marketing would rather talk about Quantum Matrix technology

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pretty simple install process you just put this puppy in here right and screw

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it in and this is fun if you don't want to use the included stand you've got a

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Vasa bracket included in the box which is kind of a necessity for curved

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monitors like this one thanks someday it will be available on

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lttstore.com Sunday got your height adjust

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got your swivel got your tilt oh wow

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look at that you've got uh pivot too very nice very nice I can't say that I

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would be that into oh okay it can go almost straight at the bottom

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so it's kind of like wow it's a little

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it's like it's lording over me yes monitor I shall I shall do your bidding

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take that Andy always remove the peel

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otherwise maybe fire so is this a 140 watt power brick that's

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your G rating baby that's a lot of power but

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what do you want it's crazy powerful

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assuming that it'll turn on at some point oh no it's not a joystick it's

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buttons down here okay well that's fine that seems to work pretty well okay hey

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there we go I mean doing angles on this are not bad though

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the first thing we need to do though find out if the 240 hertz selection is

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there it is not I have no idea what's involved

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in running at 4K 240 hertz like to my knowledge there's nothing else that

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approaches this in terms of bandwidth comes with a DP 1.4 validated cable

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supposedly it says 8K on it oh yeah

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maybe there's like an overclock mode that you have to enable oh refresh rate

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connect well there's your problem

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play around in the OSD a little bit here we've got support for adaptive Sync It's

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freesync premium certified and let's see I also g-sync compatible very nice oh

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that 240 yards so sweet oh how's haloing around the mouse

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out of the box you can see the cursor doesn't have the full brightness on the

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dark areas of the screen but they opt to

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dim the cursor rather than blow out the

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black areas around it which is probably a smarter move that's always going to be

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a challenge when you're using full array local dimming but unless you use the Larry local dimming you're not going to

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be able to hit like 2000 hits Peak brightness it's just not possible you

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can set it to an ultra wide aspect ratio and just have perma-black bars now

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obviously that's something that you could do do in your display driver but

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for those of you who are not comfortable or not familiar tinkering around in

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there it's just a couple of Clicks in the OSD and you can watch in like a 21x9

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more cinematic aspect ratio personally I I wouldn't do it this way but

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it's there show a virtual aim point on the center of the screen here's the

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cheat button oh yeah you're welcome there's front lighting oh there it is

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okay that's not too distracting all right all right and then the back is

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quite a bit brighter oh I have thought would be RGB but this is just an accent

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piece okay that's cool then if you turn on core sync it'll match the color at

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the back with the color of the content on the screen so it'll kind of light up the wall behind you I would say it works

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best with a white wall so if you don't have one then probably not going to be

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the greatest experience but hey you might have a white wall I'm at 35

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brightness in a lit studio and this is

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bright enough this thing might be actually insane I

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don't think I have ever seen anything like that before

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this is bananas bright at a hundred percent

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let's go to something bright but somewhat reasonable maybe like

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65. 65 how do you feel about that David

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that looks fantastic that looks it does look fantastic doesn't it normally your

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calibration report is a slip of paper in the box but apparently Samsung has just

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built it right into the display which kind of makes sense from a workflow standpoint at the factory local dimming

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Here We Go Auto automatically turned on and off based on where the content is

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HDR that's actually really smart because I wouldn't necessarily want to use local

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dimming and SDR this has enough innate contrast that you wouldn't really need

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it I suspect what pcav mode is doing is it's using either 0 to 255 values for

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black or what is it 16 to 235 and that

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just is dependent on the device that you have plugged in so if you were to plug

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in something like a Blu-ray player you might actually switch it over to AV mode that's pretty much it other than that

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it's time to experience this thing overcooked

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just kidding I want something with HDR so oh cool Samsung gives the option to

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update software on a USB device that's something that's not actually that

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common on monitor and is that's a really

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good thing maximum luminance 100

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and we are barely making it above 120

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FPS this is almost as fast as it gets and

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hey but if you want to be ready for the

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rumored next-gen gpus that are coming out

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oh the experience is definitely better

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on axis I had said the viewing angle seemed

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pretty good if you want the best color

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reproduction you're going to want to be right in front of the monitor I wonder

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if that's one of the reasons that Samsung went with a curved display that

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looks really good here it was like yeah it looks okay but

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I'm also at like what what is this maybe a 25 30 degree angle off the screen

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too smooth there's no such thing as too smooth this is just the right amount of

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smooth actually we could get smoother it is really smooth though like even doing

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just an endless camera rotation around

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like that wow that is crazy

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and we're only running at like 140 FPS okay

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let's try something else let's do maternal on here before we get that launched though check this out those

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pointers are super sharp they advertise a one millisecond response time so I

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shouldn't be surprised but really sharp 190 190. not good enough

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even from this angle though man this

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game looks really good

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that's crazy

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um well that was a miscalculation

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oh my God that looks good A Samsung

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specifically wanted me to mention their anti-glare so that's a good thing to

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have this what it looks awesome

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I wouldn't care if it had the most glare in the world man that looks good and

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without resorting to Vivid mode nonsense

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or anything like that it just looks freaking awesome man do we have Destiny

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on here no oh that's too bad I'd love to see Destiny on this gorgeous gaming HDR

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that's the kind of thing that a monitor upgrade like this does is like you take

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experiences you've already had and then you just have them Anew with a

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completely different level of visuals right it's like upgrading your GPU from

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entry level to like a new performance GPU going back and playing games with

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all the eye candy turned on like that's that's what it's like okay 240 and vsync

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off are we still at 90 frames per second

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how does that even make sense I mean it's a good looking game say what

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you want about the rkd feel or whatever else but you cannot criticize how this

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game looks especially on a good monitor

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okay hey look two of the same character model like right next to each other you

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think they'd have logic for that it doesn't matter you're driving by them yeah uh what kind of monster pauses and

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looks at the crowd in Forza well these two are right next to each other I mean

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come on the last thing I want to see is the intelligent input selection let's go

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ahead and plug in this station of play I'm trying to remember which button is

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the on button David help me brighter no

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definitely bright enough so let's try if I unplug HDMI

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do I have this feature disabled or something it's worth mentioning that it

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supports HDMI 2.1 the HDMI 2.1 branding

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is all messed up right now but basically like the 48 gigabit per second version

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Oh Auto Source switch plus oh is not available it's off by default you have

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to plug in two things to turn it on okay I'm gonna plug in DisplayPort

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DisplayPort has been connected and

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boom very nice all right now let's power

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down the PlayStation does that even do that here we go David

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you ready yep beep

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hey hey all right

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and all it'll cost you is everything

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1500 US dollars what do you want 32 inches 4K 240 hertz

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if you can afford the GPU to drive it well there's one of two options either

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you spent all your money on a GPU to drive it or you can afford this no

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