When it comes to desk displays, line is partial to 42 inches, I'm partial to 32.
But Samsung made the 37 inch 4K viewfinity
for anyone who wants something in between. That's right, you wouldn't expect it to be,
but this is a world's first.
I'm kinda surprised no one's made a 4K 37 inch monitor yet,
but you know, Samsung, they did it first. Let's open this up.
Now to be clear, this is not a gaming monitor.
It's 60 Hertz, so maybe don't buy it if you're a gamer,
but I love weirdly sized displays.
That LG Doola, incredible monitor. You know, it's not for gaming, but it's still sick.
This is upside down, give me a second. In the box, we've got a bunch of cables, HDMI.
I'm not saying 2.1 because I don't think it is. Also, there is a DisplayPort on here, it's only 1.2,
but it's not high refresh rate.
Here's our DisplayPort 1.2 cable.
Well, okay, the cable's probably 1.4, but yeah, the port ain't.
And we've got our power because yes, this is not going into a brick,
we're plugging in directly into our monitor. And lastly, we've got a USB-C to C.
Does it say if there's power delivery or anything? I don't see it.
And they've got this in here because of course this being more of an office monitor,
it is a KVM. And we'll get to one of my favorite parts in a little bit
because it's also got another thing that's pretty uncommon when it comes to displays.
Simple user guide, cool. And it works for a lot of monitors
because yep, this is just a pretty standard boy here. And otherwise, we've just got like how to set up.
This does have a supposedly super easy to set up stand.
I'm gonna get to that shortly here. I think it's tool-less.
And the website, I watched Samsung's promotional video
for this, they say you can do it in five seconds.
I don't know about that, we'll try. Let's try our best.
Here we go. That's the stand. It looks pretty standard to me, standard.
You like that? And then we've got the base of our stand right here.
Instead of the traditional column and a screw design,
there is a column in the bottom of this one and that's keyed so you slot it in
and then you twist it and then it's done. Probably sturdy enough, but 37 inches
makes me a little nervous. Oh, 37 inches is like basically a TV.
I can't wait to get this on the desk.
But first let's try the five second stand.
The fastest monitor assembly in the Northwest. I ain't never seen anybody do it this quick.
We're gonna go viral with this one.
Done. And then if you wanna take it off,
boom. Easier. Easier. Unless someone out there can prove to me
that this is like ultra flimsy and it's a bad design.
I guess maybe, you know, the button sticks out so maybe you press it like you stupidly put this down
on your desk and there's a thing there and it magically just so happens to be in line
to press the button, then it's disturbed and then you move it and then it falls out. Maybe that can happen.
Will it, almost definitely not. But until someone proves that that's a thing, I love this.
This is like kind of amazing.
And I really hope that everyone transitions to this system
because like, man, it's just that easy. Holy shit.
That's five seconds. I couldn't believe it. Well then, you know, I got it and I did it in like two seconds.
So yeah, this thing's awesome. All right, let's get this thing out of the box.
That's what, because you know, we're already so impressed by the stand, which by the way is a nice squared base,
very thin, easy to put stuff on, doesn't really get in the way.
And it's a relatively small footprint
for a display this big.
Oh man, can I, can I do it one-handed?
Yeah. Oh, easy. Easy.
Yeah. You don't need help for this one. Wow.
Would you look at this? The back ain't nothing too fancy. It's not a special, just some, you know, boring flat panel.
Yeah. But on the front, we got this majestic 37 inch 4K monster.
Incredible. Let's get this wiped up and then we'll take a quick look at the IO.
We've got our HDMI port, DisplayPort,
USBB, USB-C, Kensington lock,
actually kind of matters since this is meant to be in offices and our power connector.
And on our non-traditional side here, we've got our three USB-A ports
as well as a headphone jack and what I'm really excited about, Ethernet.
And it's gigabit. It's so like well-balanced too, holding it actually feels really easy with one hand.
It's a really minor thing, but when you move a lot of monitors around, like you get to tell them
when they feel really lopsided and stuff. When it comes to adjustability, look at this.
It's actually quite a bit of rotation here. And then it should be able to tilt as well.
And I don't, no pivot. Sorry guys, no pivot.
But I mean, it's a 37-inch panel.
Do you imagine a vertical? That'd actually be crazy, right?
Oh man, like here, I can show you guys.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, that's good.
Okay, so it's not gonna go vertical, but it does have a ton. And then obviously there's height adjustment.
Honestly, it's pretty sick so far. Let's get it hooked up on the desk over there.
Take a look at some content on it, but not before a word from our sponsor.
Hell yeah, look at this. 4K, 300%?
No, let's see what it looks like at 100% scaling.
Honestly, too small. But, can't get over how much screen space this is.
Hold on, I gotta bring it down. A 42-inch TV is too big.
Just flat out, that's more like this. And that's too much for me. But 37 inches is like, it's enough to have
as a really big primary display. And then you could still fit
like a little 27-inch vertical over here.
And I think that would be great. The only problem is obviously it's not really for gaming.
So let's take a couple quick looks here at, also it can do HDR, it's not very good.
So we're gonna not worry about that right now.
I really want something this big now.
It was worth it for me to go from a 34-inch ultra-wide to a 32-inch 4K monitor.
But now that I've got this in front of me, I kind of want 37.
I just wish it was like at least 120 Hertz. Let's try gaming on it.
It looks pretty good. I'll get to the actual results in a little bit here,
but let's try gaming on it real quick. Yeah, that's 60 Hertz.
Hell yeah. You might be able to get away with overclocking in a little bit, but I don't think you're gonna get that much.
Maybe 75, you know, there's a lot of screen tearing.
It's not the best motion pixel response times
I've ever seen. But you know what? If you're at the office and you wanna play
like a quick game of Counter-Strike, or you wanna play a game that's not a first-person shooter,
this thing's awesome. Okay, I will admit, this is pretty bad.
I probably wouldn't play, okay, never mind. Yeah, I wouldn't play Counter-Strike on this.
60 Hertz sucks. But there's a lot of more chill games
that only need like 60 Hertz. Like you can play Civ on this thing, no, this is, oh my God.
Oh, this would be amazing for Civ. Oh my God, or like City Skylines or something,
like any kind of big resource, like City Management kind of game.
Oh, this would actually be incredible for that.
Oh yeah, it's rough when I do like a big flick or a pen.
Oh, that's progress though, baby, 37 inch 4K worlds first.
That's what you get. There's gonna be some drawbacks. We know it can game.
We know you can watch content on it. But how about that KVM? That's what I, yeah, gotta try.
I've got my laptop right here. I'm gonna plug it into the port
that's got a bunch of data symbols on it. Actually, can it do power and display out of the same port?
USB Type-C has been connected. Will you automatically switch to it?
No? Okay, that's fine. There's a navigation nubbin on the back here, source.
USB Type-C, we're connected through the right port
because this one doesn't have Ethernet, but this one does. And now I'm getting 90 Watts of power delivery over USB-C
as well as Ethernet. Let's see how good the connection is. Let's do a speed test. See if we actually get gigabit.
This is not looking good for a gigabit. Well, 300 up and down isn't bad.
It's actually pretty good. But there's a bit of an issue.
If you wanna do all of these things, 4K,
90 Watts power delivery, and gigabit Ethernet,
you're not gonna get that. Unfortunately, what you're gonna have to do
if you really need gigabit is you're gonna have to go into the menu,
go into USB-C preference,
and instead of high resolution, you have to change it to high speed data.
That's gonna drop a resolution down to like 1920 by 1280,
whatever my laptop is natively.
But we're gonna retest this.
Look at that, 913 down, 888 up.
That's pretty solid. It is a little annoying that you can't get all of it
in one package at the same time, but you know what, 300 megs is solid
and probably good enough for most people. What's this thing like when it comes to color performance?
Well, with just a few minor settings in SDR, we're measuring a little bit over
a Delta E 2000 average of one. So it's color accurate
for just about whatever you're gonna wanna do. Now, when it comes to HDR, not so much.
We're getting a Delta E ITP average of just under 23.
It's a regular edge-lit panel. There's no foot-larray local dimming. I don't recommend this for HDR.
But for office work, I think it's absolutely incredible, especially if you want like a one-monitor solution.
Like this is great for like a hot desk. This is a great size for like grabbing one window
and then putting it to the side and you know, having whatever else you need up.
At around $580, it's a little expensive,
but for office equipment, it's not that bad, especially considering the size
and the fact that it's also 4K, it's a KVM, it's got all these extra features.
If this is the monitor for you, you'll probably know and you should definitely consider picking it up.
Thanks for watching, guys. This is the Samsung Viewfinity S8,
the world's first 37-inch 4K monitor.
I'm Ploof, I'm the world's first me.
You're the first one? No!