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fully private click now to learn more is Samsung's 28d 590d 28 in Ultra HD 4k
monitor too good to be true I mean it's
literally 1 the price of what you would
have been expected to pay six short months ago if you wanted a 4K display
for your PC so let's get to it shall we
kicking things off on the product page we find this little tidbit unlike other
value 4K monitors notably the Dell p2815q
Samsung's value 4k monitor runs at 60 HZ
and boasts 1 millisecond gr to grade response times and unlike other 4K
monitors in general it does it as a single stream no multistream sidebyside
display Tom Foolery huge thanks to Ryan shro at PC per for helping me test this
by the way since Samsung doesn't document the feature and none of this
Cop Out 30 HZ nonsense that may be suitable for watching movies but is a
huge step backwards for gaming or even General computer use where we've become
accustomed to 60 HZ or higher refresh rates over the last couple of decades
please note however that you will need a DisplayPort 1.2 output to run at 4K 60
HZ with a single cable otherwise you can run 4K 30 HZ with a single HDMI input or
another cool option is that you could use an HDMI cable and a DVI to HDMI
cable to both of the HDMI inputs with Samsung's picture by picture mode and a
display spanning technology like AMD ifinity or NVIDIA surround except that
AMD and their Infinite Wisdom doesn't allow custom resolutions in their driver
and I can't get the DVI adapter output to run at 1920 x 2160 and NVIDIA in
their equally Infinite Wisdom doesn't allow two monitor surround
configurations thanks guys this solution
works pretty well though and does help AMD users stuck with DisplayPort 1.1
outputs but if you've got DisplayPort 1.2 then just run that by itself the
next spec of note is that while Samsung specifically calls out that the panel
technology is TN they're also claiming support for 1 billion colors so what
does that mean 1 billion color support versus 16.7 million on a typical 8bit
display implies that we're dealing with a 10bit display PCM monitors. info
believes that Samsung is achieving their results with a true 8 bit panel and 2
bit frame rate control dithering pretty unexpected for a TN monitor but the even
more unexpected thing about this is that it actually appears to work pretty well
obviously this footage of the screens is being captured by a camera encoded and
compressed in editing and then compressed Again by YouTube so if you
can't see a clear difference in these grayscale gradients you'll have to
believe me when I say that our 590d looks a lot more similar to our ASUS Pro
art 246 q a true 10bit IPS display with
a 12- bit lookup table than it does to our 25 tww an 8bit native display very
impressive so far but a monitor product
page wouldn't be complete without some pure horse plop and Samsung's Mega
Infinity seriously Dynamic contrast ratio is the stupidest thing I've seen
in quite some time fortunately they list a static contrast ratio as well and it's
1,000 to1 which is both fairly respectable and much more believable
from having used the product let's move on physically the monitor is a mixed bag
for me the slim bezel and thin overall design is great the semi matat screen is
just the right mix of anti-glare and vibrant colors and the rearm mounted
joystick for the onscreen controls works really really well but I sure wish they
hadn't gone with a glossy bezel and the stands features are very unexceptional
with tilt only and no support for Swivel
pivot or even hide adjust which I could have forgiven if they'd included a four-
screw vase amount on the back so it could be replaced but they didn't
however I guess I can see why that would have been difficult with how thin the
monitor is overall at the back of the monitor we find two HDMI inputs and a
DisplayPort input and along with the power brick Samsung does include cables
for each of those in the Box a nice touch these can be used one at a time or
in a couple of unique ways with Samsung touting their unscaled 1080p picture in
picture mode and their 1920 by 2160
picture by picture modes as content enjoyment and productivity boosters of
course you can also scale SC the 1080p picture and picture and move it around
if you want as well all right so specs are fun but who is this product for
exactly there aren't really any native 4K movies or TV shows now and there's
plenty of time for better display options to become available before that
really happens so while the 590d is a crazy value for a 4k monitor it's still
pretty pricey and other than high refresh rate gaming grade LCDs you'd be
hard pressed to find a more expensive TN monitor something that may be a turnoff
for media Buffs and general consumers but the price really wouldn't be that
scary to a prosumer user or an entry-level creative professional and 4K
is a very tempting feature so could it take the place of a value 1440p 27 in
like the ASUS pb278q which features a PLS panel or even an entry-level
professional display like the 24in pa49
Q which comes with a factory calibrated 10bit ah IPS panel wide gamut support
and some other handy features albeit at a 24in size well short answer no long
answer the pitfalls of TN are still here
in spite of the 1 billion color rating side to side viewing angles were strong
with minimal color shift so from a normal sitting position the screen looks
quite uniform but vertical viewing
angles are not good enough for any kind of serious professional work where color
consistency is needed with color saturation being noticeably High at the
top of the monitor versus the bottom from a fixed viewing position but
creative Pros the news isn't all bad from a workflow perspective the extra
pixels are well I'll put it in the words of my editor edzel I want one and he's
got a point if you view your new 4k display as an additional piece of
equipment rather than as a replacement for your existing monitor I think you'll
be much happier with your purchase check out this Premier layout that is enough
screen real estate for an unscaled 1080p program plenty of room for Source clips
and timeline as well as all the little tools you need then when you're done
with that you just drag it over to a smaller color calibrated display for any
serious color work and for a little over $1,000 you've got a Super Value
optimized dual monitor setup for your work and if your work doesn't depend on
color then there are lots of ways that other professionals might use the extra
pixels online poker players can leverage the extra space by spreading everything
out manually or day Traders might use a program like display Fusion to divide it
up into four virtual 1080p workspaces the sky is the limit the caveat here
though is that unless your eyes are very very good using it in this manner will
be difficult and while you can scale up UI elements in Windows so that they're
larger but just sharper due to the higher pixel density not all programs
scale text correctly and some will look downright awful but what about games if
your graphics card can take the heat PC Gamers have had 4K content for years now
Samsung claims that due to its 1 millisecond grade to grade response
times you will not notice any lag so this might be a fantastic gaming monitor
but is it true unfortunately we don't have the gear to test it empirically but
to give us some idea of what we're working with we pulled out the fairly well regged pb278q and took some high
speed footage of our two monitors running Far Cry 3 side by side we opted
to use Samsung's gaming mode for our tests this is a welcome feature that's
found on many TVs that does slightly reduce image quality but promises less
lag from the image source and our results are pretty impressive the two
displays were nearly impossible to distinguish from each other playing back
even frame by frame at 240 FPS so that's about 4 milliseconds per frame in
gameplay but when entering and exiting menus we got some interesting Insight
while the input latency on the PB might be slightly less because the 590 D's
pixel switch so much faster the image actually reaches the eyes of the gamer
at the same time or even slightly faster this information combined with this
monitor's wicked pixel density that all but eliminates the need for
anti-aliasing translates into a very satisfying gaming experience with very
little noticeable delay and motion blur the 28d 590d is a solid recommendation
for gamers just make sure you've got the graphics card muscle and frame buffer to
back it up which leads us to our conclusion now the same goes Save The
Best For Last but in this case I actually saved the worst for last I know
your finger has been itching on that buy button for the last 8 minutes or so and
if you do Buy buy one please use our affiliate links in the video description
but only do so if you fully understand the drawbacks of this monitor it may be
the best value 4K display on the market but it's still pretty expensive and some
Corners did get cut first up the high quality metal construction of the stand
is a selling point that seems to be missing on samsung.com and rightfully so
but can be found on retailer websites including Amazon and NCI the stand is
indeed made of metal but I wouldn't drive my car over a bridge made of it
the second big drawback is the uneven appearance of the panel when certain
uniform colors are displayed thankfully full white and full black are not
affected but some colors such as dull blue and any shade of gray are affected
to capture this on camera we did have to shoot from an angle but the effect the
modeled effect is very noticeable in person even looking at it straight on it
was actually the first thing I noticed about the monitor when I powered it up for the first time the last thing that
would delay the purchase for me personally is that the monitor uses
DisplayPort 1.2 not the upcoming 1.2a
which is rumored to contain support for AMD's g-sync competitor free sync a
feature that I would really like to see on any monitor that I spend over $500 on
for gaming although I mean it's no fault of the monitors it's not available yet
so with all that out of the way no it's not perfect but if you're okay with all
that stuff if you want a 4K display on a budget will you be happy with your
purchase is this worth the asking price compared to other products available in
the market right now the answer is yes all the yes go buy it now yes it is a
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