yes monitor I shall I shall do your bidding hook you up to a fast gaming PC
you say yes yes I will here's a good one what's the difference between my dream
monitor specs and the specs of the Samsung Odyssey Neo G8
absolutely nothing get it
okay but seriously Samsung sponsored this video and once again I would have
done it anyway because this thing looks absolutely amazing 4K
240 hertz one millisecond response time
with an IPS type panel HDR 2 000 wait
sorry 2 000 nits Peak brightness with a
mini LED backlight with over 1100 local
dimming zones this promises to be the
gaming monitor oh that's a tight curve
this is 32 inches 1000r which means it
is designed for that gamer posture gonna be right here full immersion ladies and
gentlemen coming around back there's lots to talk about starting with their
Odyssey aesthetic including RGB lighting along with inputs so we've got
DisplayPort we're gonna need that for 4K 240 hertz and two HDMI ports that are
capable of smart input switching so as soon as a device fires up CEC style it
can grab that input and switch over to it we've also got an integrated USB hub
with two type A ports an audio jack as well as a 20 volt DC power in and some
of the most understated marketing that I think Samsung has ever done on the one
hand they're like Linus you gotta mention the quantum mini LED and Quantum
HDR 2000 and on the other hand they're like yeah it's a color display unit it's
not technically wrong I just think marketing would rather talk about Quantum Matrix technology
pretty simple install process you just put this puppy in here right and screw
it in and this is fun if you don't want to use the included stand you've got a
Vasa bracket included in the box which is kind of a necessity for curved
monitors like this one thanks someday it will be available on
lttstore.com Sunday got your height adjust
got your swivel got your tilt oh wow
look at that you've got uh pivot too very nice very nice I can't say that I
would be that into oh okay it can go almost straight at the bottom
so it's kind of like wow it's a little
it's like it's lording over me yes monitor I shall I shall do your bidding
take that Andy always remove the peel
otherwise maybe fire so is this a 140 watt power brick that's
your G rating baby that's a lot of power but
what do you want it's crazy powerful
assuming that it'll turn on at some point oh no it's not a joystick it's
buttons down here okay well that's fine that seems to work pretty well okay hey
there we go I mean doing angles on this are not bad though
the first thing we need to do though find out if the 240 hertz selection is
there it is not I have no idea what's involved
in running at 4K 240 hertz like to my knowledge there's nothing else that
approaches this in terms of bandwidth comes with a DP 1.4 validated cable
supposedly it says 8K on it oh yeah
maybe there's like an overclock mode that you have to enable oh refresh rate
connect well there's your problem
play around in the OSD a little bit here we've got support for adaptive Sync It's
freesync premium certified and let's see I also g-sync compatible very nice oh
that 240 yards so sweet oh how's haloing around the mouse
out of the box you can see the cursor doesn't have the full brightness on the
dark areas of the screen but they opt to
dim the cursor rather than blow out the
black areas around it which is probably a smarter move that's always going to be
a challenge when you're using full array local dimming but unless you use the Larry local dimming you're not going to
be able to hit like 2000 hits Peak brightness it's just not possible you
can set it to an ultra wide aspect ratio and just have perma-black bars now
obviously that's something that you could do do in your display driver but
for those of you who are not comfortable or not familiar tinkering around in
there it's just a couple of Clicks in the OSD and you can watch in like a 21x9
more cinematic aspect ratio personally I I wouldn't do it this way but
it's there show a virtual aim point on the center of the screen here's the
cheat button oh yeah you're welcome there's front lighting oh there it is
okay that's not too distracting all right all right and then the back is
quite a bit brighter oh I have thought would be RGB but this is just an accent
piece okay that's cool then if you turn on core sync it'll match the color at
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
best with a white wall so if you don't have one then probably not going to be
the greatest experience but hey you might have a white wall I'm at 35
brightness in a lit studio and this is
bright enough this thing might be actually insane I
don't think I have ever seen anything like that before
this is bananas bright at a hundred percent
let's go to something bright but somewhat reasonable maybe like
65. 65 how do you feel about that David
that looks fantastic that looks it does look fantastic doesn't it normally your
calibration report is a slip of paper in the box but apparently Samsung has just
built it right into the display which kind of makes sense from a workflow standpoint at the factory local dimming
Here We Go Auto automatically turned on and off based on where the content is
HDR that's actually really smart because I wouldn't necessarily want to use local
dimming and SDR this has enough innate contrast that you wouldn't really need
it I suspect what pcav mode is doing is it's using either 0 to 255 values for
black or what is it 16 to 235 and that
just is dependent on the device that you have plugged in so if you were to plug
in something like a Blu-ray player you might actually switch it over to AV mode that's pretty much it other than that
it's time to experience this thing overcooked
just kidding I want something with HDR so oh cool Samsung gives the option to
update software on a USB device that's something that's not actually that
common on monitor and is that's a really
good thing maximum luminance 100
and we are barely making it above 120
FPS this is almost as fast as it gets and
hey but if you want to be ready for the
rumored next-gen gpus that are coming out
oh the experience is definitely better
on axis I had said the viewing angle seemed
pretty good if you want the best color
reproduction you're going to want to be right in front of the monitor I wonder
if that's one of the reasons that Samsung went with a curved display that
looks really good here it was like yeah it looks okay but
I'm also at like what what is this maybe a 25 30 degree angle off the screen
too smooth there's no such thing as too smooth this is just the right amount of
smooth actually we could get smoother it is really smooth though like even doing
just an endless camera rotation around
like that wow that is crazy
and we're only running at like 140 FPS okay
let's try something else let's do maternal on here before we get that launched though check this out those
pointers are super sharp they advertise a one millisecond response time so I
shouldn't be surprised but really sharp 190 190. not good enough
even from this angle though man this
game looks really good
that's crazy
um well that was a miscalculation
oh my God that looks good A Samsung
specifically wanted me to mention their anti-glare so that's a good thing to
have this what it looks awesome
I wouldn't care if it had the most glare in the world man that looks good and
without resorting to Vivid mode nonsense
or anything like that it just looks freaking awesome man do we have Destiny
on here no oh that's too bad I'd love to see Destiny on this gorgeous gaming HDR
that's the kind of thing that a monitor upgrade like this does is like you take
experiences you've already had and then you just have them Anew with a
completely different level of visuals right it's like upgrading your GPU from
entry level to like a new performance GPU going back and playing games with
all the eye candy turned on like that's that's what it's like okay 240 and vsync
off are we still at 90 frames per second
how does that even make sense I mean it's a good looking game say what
you want about the rkd feel or whatever else but you cannot criticize how this
game looks especially on a good monitor
okay hey look two of the same character model like right next to each other you
think they'd have logic for that it doesn't matter you're driving by them yeah uh what kind of monster pauses and
looks at the crowd in Forza well these two are right next to each other I mean
come on the last thing I want to see is the intelligent input selection let's go
ahead and plug in this station of play I'm trying to remember which button is
the on button David help me brighter no
definitely bright enough so let's try if I unplug HDMI
do I have this feature disabled or something it's worth mentioning that it
supports HDMI 2.1 the HDMI 2.1 branding
is all messed up right now but basically like the 48 gigabit per second version
Oh Auto Source switch plus oh is not available it's off by default you have
to plug in two things to turn it on okay I'm gonna plug in DisplayPort
DisplayPort has been connected and
boom very nice all right now let's power
down the PlayStation does that even do that here we go David
you ready yep beep
hey hey all right
and all it'll cost you is everything
1500 US dollars what do you want 32 inches 4K 240 hertz
if you can afford the GPU to drive it well there's one of two options either
you spent all your money on a GPU to drive it or you can afford this no
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