WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.320 So you want to buy an Ultra Gear, but you don't know what to get. Do you need like a giant 49 inch screen like this guy, 00:00:06.320 --> 00:00:10.720 or do you want like a 27 inch high refresh rate monitor? It's hard to know what exactly you want 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:14.520 when you haven't tried any of those things, especially when you're looking at stuff 00:00:14.520 --> 00:00:19.360 that's 32 by nine and like a thousand R curvature. 00:00:19.360 --> 00:00:24.560 That's what you're going to get when you get the new LG GR85 DC. 00:00:24.560 --> 00:00:27.720 Comes in a huge box that I honestly might need help with 00:00:28.080 --> 00:00:32.120 because we can't tell. Actually, you know, it's not as bad as I thought. 00:00:32.120 --> 00:00:37.480 I could have lifted this myself. I need a knife. Honestly, it's pretty good that we've got a standing desk 00:00:37.480 --> 00:00:40.760 that's adjustable because this box is huge. 00:00:40.760 --> 00:00:45.400 We've got some instructions on the side here. Don't use an electric screwdriver. 00:00:45.400 --> 00:00:48.840 Don't do that. What's that called? A drill? Don't screw into the panel. 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:51.960 That's bad. That says you can pivot it. So that's cool. 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:56.760 Don't use two hands from the bottom. All right, I'm just going to, you know, open it. 00:00:56.760 --> 00:01:01.680 We got our stand here, pretty typical for LG. It's just going to click, clack into the monitor 00:01:01.680 --> 00:01:07.280 and it's got a nice column that we'll screw into from the bottom. What else? We got the rest of the stand. 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:11.200 Yeah. So when you've got a display that's like this wide, 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:16.000 you kind of need a really wide stand for it so that it doesn't get super unwieldy 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:19.920 and it's going to take up a lot of desk space whether you like it or not. 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:24.280 I guess you could use a monitor ARM if you want to, 00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:28.480 but like the reality is for something that's 49 inches, it's going to be pretty heavy 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:32.360 and you're going to need a much more robust ARM and it might cost you about a hundred bucks, 00:01:32.360 --> 00:01:36.120 but when you're spending this much on a monitor, maybe that's worth it to you. 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:40.920 And this is a cable cover, little clip doodad to help you keep all your cables in place. 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:44.720 And then we got a bunch of cables. We got a USB A to USB B, 00:01:44.720 --> 00:01:51.520 DisplayPort, HDMI, some documentation and a standard C13 power cable. 00:01:51.520 --> 00:01:55.200 Oh, color temperature, 6,500 Kelvin, okay. 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:58.760 Max Delta E value of less than five, it's a pass. 00:01:58.760 --> 00:02:04.260 All right, so it's relatively color accurate, but less than five isn't all that impressive these days. 00:02:04.260 --> 00:02:07.640 Most monitors that we're getting that are a premium display 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:12.480 end up being typically around less than two in the report coming from the factory. 00:02:12.480 --> 00:02:16.000 And then we measure them and they're usually around that as well. This is another clip. 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:19.480 I actually don't know what this clip is for. I've never seen this one before. 00:02:19.480 --> 00:02:24.280 We'll take our styrofoam off. Oh, maybe, as you can see, it's curved. 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:29.440 It's got a thousand dollar curvature. And that's part of why the box is so incredibly deep. 00:02:29.440 --> 00:02:34.680 It does suck how much extra like box depth you get. These are a lot harder to pack and store and move. 00:02:34.680 --> 00:02:40.520 And I'm always like a little bit afraid of taking them out of the box. So, okay, here's the rest of our display. 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:44.160 It's a super chunky housing on this guy, 00:02:44.160 --> 00:02:49.520 partly because the power is all installed here instead of in like a little external power brick. 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:52.560 The stand installs same way most of them do. 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:55.560 You just pop it down there, screw it down. 00:02:55.560 --> 00:03:00.560 And then we're just gonna go into here, down. 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:05.040 Now it's ready. You can just pull it out. Okay, here we go. 00:03:05.040 --> 00:03:08.720 The realsies, oh my God. I don't know what the weight is. 00:03:08.720 --> 00:03:13.520 Can you check what the weight says for specs? Cause this thing is heavy, man. 00:03:13.520 --> 00:03:17.920 32 and a half. Wow, I thought it was heavier. I'm just a weakling now. 00:03:17.920 --> 00:03:21.760 These are some of the hardest peels I've ever had to take off. 00:03:21.760 --> 00:03:29.280 They're really on here. There we go. Oh, but now that it's going, it's going. 00:03:30.320 --> 00:03:35.000 Something that is actually really common on a lot of LG monitors is they have their IO 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:41.440 just coming straight out the back like this. And while it might make for a slightly uglier presentation 00:03:41.440 --> 00:03:46.360 when you're looking at the back of the monitor, I gotta say from a utilitarian point, it's just so easy. 00:03:47.320 --> 00:03:50.640 You come around back and you just plug it in. They're right there. 00:03:50.640 --> 00:03:54.720 We've got HDMI, DisplayPort or USBB port 00:03:54.720 --> 00:03:58.080 and then two USBAs along with our big C13 power. 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:02.040 And then down here, we've got our headphone jack for anyone who just wants to plug straight into their monitor. 00:04:02.040 --> 00:04:06.760 Another thing that I like about a lot of LG displays is they've got this really cool premium texture feel 00:04:06.760 --> 00:04:11.080 on the back here. It's just this kind of pattern texture that runs along the whole back of the monitor. 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:15.040 You should be able to see it. It both looks cool and feels pretty good. 00:04:15.040 --> 00:04:19.680 And so I'm a big fan of that. It looks like we've also got RGB along the sides here. 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:24.000 I really wish that instead of vents or even alongside the vents, just add more RGB. 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:28.040 I want a full ring going all the way around but maybe that's too much to ask. 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:31.040 I don't know. As for the stand itself, it's pretty beefy. 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:34.320 Feels like aluminum. And yeah, it's not going anywhere. 00:04:34.320 --> 00:04:37.920 That's for sure. Actually for table wobble for a monitor this size, 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:41.880 that's like pretty good. I've seen them like really, really get shaky 00:04:41.880 --> 00:04:48.960 when you just start adding a bit of shake and this is not too bad. It can't do a whole lot in terms of like pivot or tilt. 00:04:48.960 --> 00:04:53.200 Actually it said it could pivot a little bit in the book but I don't think it can. 00:04:53.200 --> 00:04:58.680 Pretty sure I'm just breaking it. But it can tilt a little bit, not a ton. 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:02.320 And then is height adjustable? Yep, it is. 00:05:02.320 --> 00:05:05.520 So you got a height adjustment for you, which is actually pretty great. 00:05:05.520 --> 00:05:10.040 Boom, look at this. Yeah, look at all this swivel. It's actually pretty good. I will say LG makes a good stand. 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:14.300 I've never had any issues with their stands. They just kind of work and they look nice. 00:05:14.300 --> 00:05:17.700 5120 by 1440. 00:05:17.700 --> 00:05:21.060 You basically just have two 1440P panels right here. 00:05:21.060 --> 00:05:24.580 It's a VA panel and the viewing angles aren't going to be perfect. 00:05:24.580 --> 00:05:28.980 So for some of this, while David's shooting me from this angle, it's not going to look great 00:05:28.980 --> 00:05:33.300 and that's not necessarily because the monitor is bad. 00:05:33.300 --> 00:05:38.300 However, I would like to point out that even straight on, there is a lot of really weird banding going on. 00:05:38.300 --> 00:05:43.980 I don't know if this is just Windows trying to do stuff. So I'm going to bring up like a full white website 00:05:43.980 --> 00:05:49.420 or a paint or a full black paint. It's still not perfect, but it is a little better. 00:05:49.420 --> 00:05:54.100 So I'm going to blame that slightly on Windows at least, but yeah, there's still some banding going on. 00:05:54.100 --> 00:05:58.500 But yeah, I would just like to make that very clear. It's VA, so him shooting like this 00:05:58.500 --> 00:06:03.660 isn't going to be totally representative of exactly how good or bad it looks. 00:06:03.660 --> 00:06:07.340 Am I crazy? Is there a bunch of noise? I can't tell if it's glare or not. 00:06:07.340 --> 00:06:11.140 No, it's like move, like all along the- Oh, yeah. 00:06:11.140 --> 00:06:14.380 Yeah, once you see it. On the left, right? Well, it's a little cross, 00:06:14.380 --> 00:06:18.140 but it's like yeah, depending on your viewing angle. Yeah, that's wild. 00:06:18.140 --> 00:06:22.300 I wonder if it's because of the screen door effect on this light and on the lower resolution 00:06:22.300 --> 00:06:25.900 because let's do a quick little calculator here. 00:06:25.900 --> 00:06:30.900 While it's 1440p, it's 1440p across a really big display. 00:06:32.140 --> 00:06:35.580 You know, that's actually surprisingly better than I expected it to be. 00:06:35.580 --> 00:06:39.200 108 PPI, almost 109 is, it's okay. 00:06:39.200 --> 00:06:42.300 It's totally acceptable. You're really not gonna start getting 00:06:42.300 --> 00:06:47.800 a ton of screen door effect until you're at a much lower PPI like 80 or even 90. 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:52.040 That being said, you know, 160, 150, anywhere higher is just always better. 00:06:52.040 --> 00:06:56.760 But yeah, we're sometimes seeing this weird noise and I can't tell what's going on. 00:06:56.760 --> 00:06:59.920 It's a little weird. Now, that being said, this is a gaming monitor. 00:06:59.920 --> 00:07:03.800 It does 240 Hertz. It does have HDR. 00:07:03.800 --> 00:07:07.240 However, I've been told that it's not good HDR. 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:11.620 Now, it's doing HDR without any sort 00:07:11.620 --> 00:07:15.880 of full array local dimming. It's Vesa rated at HDR 1000, which just means 00:07:15.880 --> 00:07:21.440 that it gets over 1000 nits peak brightness, which is cool, but it doesn't matter 00:07:21.440 --> 00:07:24.480 if your HDR experience is not good. 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:28.360 Honestly, right now, just staring at it from the right angle, it looks pretty good. 00:07:28.360 --> 00:07:33.340 It's not perfect. However, HDR on YouTube is not the same 00:07:33.340 --> 00:07:37.560 when you're playing games in HDR. So we're gonna fire up a game. 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:41.040 We don't have any full array. We just have columns. 00:07:41.040 --> 00:07:44.480 We have about six or eight columns of brightness 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:47.560 that just edge light the screen. 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:50.760 And when you're playing games, it looks bad. 00:07:50.760 --> 00:07:54.000 When you press the button, you get input game mode power off settings. 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:57.760 They're just gonna hit settings. I actually really like how the UG for Ultra Gear 00:07:57.760 --> 00:08:02.960 kind of like flashes every now and then. That looks pretty cool. I think it can change whatever your different game modes are. 00:08:02.960 --> 00:08:06.480 The gamer one definitely looks the best to me. These are all way too dark. 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:10.520 I don't know what they're doing. So for adaptive sync, we've got FreeSync Premium Pro, 00:08:10.520 --> 00:08:16.360 which is pretty great. It's not G-Sync, but whatever. FreeSync is pretty decent overall. 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:21.080 Extended, basic off, use whatever you want. Response time, faster, fast, normal. 00:08:21.080 --> 00:08:24.520 I'm gonna put it down to fast because a lot of times on screens like this, 00:08:24.520 --> 00:08:29.360 when you go with faster, it can introduce a little bit inverse ghosting because it's trying to fix it too much. 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:32.560 Picture adjust, you know, we've got just brightness, sharpness. 00:08:32.560 --> 00:08:38.720 In different modes, other than game mode, like especially if we put it to, say, vivid, 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:43.960 or if we just turned game mode itself off, we could probably change more of these settings. 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:47.520 Yeah, you can see that changing down to this one actually illuminated sharpness. 00:08:47.520 --> 00:08:53.040 So let's just go back to gamer one, which is the only one that's certified, actually, interesting. 00:08:53.040 --> 00:08:56.800 And then for input, oh, we've got PBP and PIP with a bunch of different options. 00:08:56.800 --> 00:09:00.520 This is actually really great. I like how clear they've made all of your selections here. 00:09:00.520 --> 00:09:03.600 And one of the best things about PBP or PIP, 00:09:03.640 --> 00:09:08.000 I don't need it in the majority of monitors, but when something's like 32 by nine, 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:11.080 especially if you have consoles or another computer, 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:14.640 like a laptop maybe, it's really handy to actually be able to be like, 00:09:14.640 --> 00:09:18.240 no, this half of the screen is like my PS5, and I'm just gonna game here, 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:21.960 and then this is my computer, and this is like Reddit or Discord 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:27.880 or whatever you wanna keep up there. Super handy feature, and it's actually why I was super mad when the ARC came out 00:09:27.880 --> 00:09:32.000 because it didn't do PBP or PIP. For giant screen, I was furious. 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:35.680 As for smoothness, it definitely feels like 240 Hertz, 00:09:35.680 --> 00:09:40.560 and it looks pretty good. It doesn't get too smeary or gross 00:09:40.560 --> 00:09:45.360 when I do a quick pan here. And in terms of contrast, it's okay. 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:50.360 It's definitely closer to 2000 to one rather than it is anything higher than that. 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:53.360 But yeah, when you move around, it has trouble. Oh, there we go. 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:58.000 Now we can see it. Okay, okay, here's what I'm talking about for bad HDR. 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:01.440 And I know that it looked good in game here, but I wanna be very clear. 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:05.000 Some games don't handle this stuff well. When I was playing Elden Ring, 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:10.840 it was on my old MSI Creator panel, and it had the same like six or eight columns of edge lighting. 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:15.800 And for that, you'd have like a single torch on screen, and you'd have a column of brightness on your screen. 00:10:15.800 --> 00:10:19.420 It just looks awful. You can just see as I pan the mouse across. 00:10:19.420 --> 00:10:22.600 You see all this bloom? Even just this guy, this UI element, 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:26.140 look at how much they're brightening around that section. 00:10:26.140 --> 00:10:29.800 So as I pass my mouse around, it's saying, hey, there's a bright spot there. 00:10:29.800 --> 00:10:33.640 We wanna illuminate that bright spot and crank the brightness for HDR. 00:10:33.640 --> 00:10:36.840 But what it's doing is it's like, okay, pump the light in from here and here. 00:10:36.840 --> 00:10:41.860 And it just, it doesn't do it very well. It doesn't illuminate that pinpoint of brightness 00:10:41.860 --> 00:10:46.360 that you get from a true HDR experience with OLED is a perfect example, 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:50.640 or even mini LED as long as they have like 500, a thousand plus zones, 00:10:50.640 --> 00:10:55.560 they might have blooming and haloing in mini LED, but you know, it's not a full column of bloom. 00:10:55.560 --> 00:10:59.320 It's like, oh, your cursor is a little bright around the edges. Another thing to notice, 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:02.560 look how slowly it fades from bright to black. 00:11:02.560 --> 00:11:06.280 Look how long that takes. Now, as for testing, it's not too bad. 00:11:06.280 --> 00:11:09.920 I mean, the display boasts a 95% coverage of DCI-P3 00:11:09.920 --> 00:11:13.120 and it says about 2,500 to one contrast ratio, 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:16.880 but we did measure more like 2,800 to one, which is okay. 00:11:16.880 --> 00:11:21.120 And it does that 95%. We measured 95% in DCI-P3 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:25.680 and we got about 100% in SRGB. So it's got a pretty decent color gamut. 00:11:25.680 --> 00:11:29.080 As for accuracy, it's, you know, a little bit of a different story. 00:11:29.080 --> 00:11:32.480 Our report says Delta E of no less than five 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:36.600 in all colors, which isn't quite correct. We did get the average of 3.6. 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:39.720 However, we got a high end of 8.6 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:43.560 and I think a yellow particularly hits over five. It's closer to six on that too. 00:11:43.560 --> 00:11:48.520 So it's not perfect for color work. You can calibrate it to get a better image, 00:11:48.520 --> 00:11:54.280 but I don't know. The problem is a lot of other displays, they might not be as big and as curved as this guy, 00:11:54.280 --> 00:11:57.360 but they are going to be more color accurate, 00:11:57.360 --> 00:12:02.480 at least if they specify that they are. Delta E of two or less is very common these days. 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:07.640 So that's kind of what your target should be. As for brightness, we got about 450 nits in SDR, 00:12:07.640 --> 00:12:10.840 which isn't crazy bright considering the HDR 1000 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:15.040 Vesa rating. However, HDR, we measured 1,235 nits, 00:12:15.040 --> 00:12:18.680 which is really bright, but you saw how we're getting that brightness. 00:12:18.680 --> 00:12:24.260 It's this weird column edge lighting that just doesn't look good in a lot of scenarios. 00:12:24.260 --> 00:12:28.900 You might not notice it in all of your games, and you might not even notice it until you pause the game 00:12:28.900 --> 00:12:32.780 and start moving around on a black screen. But when you do, it really takes you out. 00:12:32.780 --> 00:12:37.520 As for latency, it's pretty fast at 2.4 milliseconds at 240 Hertz, but that's largely due 00:12:37.520 --> 00:12:41.980 to the 240 Hertz refresh rate. I like the monitor, but how much does it cost? 00:12:41.980 --> 00:12:46.840 Well, it's $1,300, which it's a lot of money. 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:50.920 And I think I know why it's cause it's like, they're trying to do too many things at once 00:12:50.920 --> 00:12:54.960 and throw a big sticker price on it. I think that at this size and at this price, 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:59.720 you can find something that's either maybe a little smaller, but significantly nicer, 00:12:59.720 --> 00:13:06.000 or it's all the same here, but a much nicer panel for maybe a couple hundred dollars more. 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:10.720 I don't think I can recommend the LG 49 GR 85 DC. 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:14.040 Wow, what a mouthful. It's just not really the monitor for me. 00:13:14.040 --> 00:13:17.980 I think at this price point, you're better off getting a smaller screen with better display tech, 00:13:17.980 --> 00:13:22.200 or if you really need something this big, get a TV instead, get a C2 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:26.140 when it's on sale, get a C1 on sale, 48 inch. It's great, great TV. 00:13:26.140 --> 00:13:29.340 This is ShortCircuit, and if you want to check out a monitor with good local dimming, 00:13:29.340 --> 00:13:34.460 check out the Sony Inzone M9. It's got a hundred zones, well, 96, but who's counting?