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ah we got the gr 95 QE from LG this

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thing is a huge it's a 45 in curved

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ultrawide OLED that's going to do 240

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htz oh it's so fast it's so fast LG

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didn't even sponsor whoa LG didn't even sponsor this one

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they're so confident that you know these are going to be beautiful displays that

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they just sent it to us they said hey open it up check them out and I can

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confirm I've seen a lot of these panels

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specifically uh they're kind of the new hotness this year for OLED so we're

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getting them in ASUS in Acer like everyone's making this monitor but LG

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makes the panels okay I hate styrofoam I

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hate it so much I actually opened this upside down which is a little unfortunate cuz now I've just got the

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panel kind of hanging out here uh I'm an idiot and uh there's handles here that's

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always going to tell you whether it's right side up or not it's kind of

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expensive but it's pretty good we got a box LG Life's good uh we've got our

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remote this thing does come with a remote so I'm actually pretty excited to

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check that out what else we got a bunch of cables we got a cable clip or

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something Yep looks like that's for clipping cables on the back of your monitor HDMI probably a 2.1 cable since

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this is a 240 HZ monitor yep 8K 60 power

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brick for you external power brick people who love a slim design on the

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Monitor and then you're okay with this big beefy power brick on the ground

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power bricks rated for 210 Watts I think this normally draws about 160 170 but it

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can Spike depending on how bright you're making your screen what else they've got

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here is a USB A2B cable as well as a

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DisplayPort cable probably just 1.4 since there's only 1.4 connections on

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this monitor I know DisplayPort 2.0 is barely a thing but like I'd really like

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to see it on more monitors especially when you're paying a hefty price oh okay

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here we go this is what I really wanted display quality assurance report telling

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us all the measurement conditions which is nice like the color temperature they checked it at and the input signal and

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test equipment and all that one piece two piece we'll connect our stand in a

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little bit here it's a 45 in display with a 21 by9 aspect ratio you're

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getting an ultra wide here and it has an 800 R curvature so like the reason why

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this box is so thick is so that it can actually support the monitor's curved

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nature inside this box we've got our stand we're going to put it together

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here luckily it's one of those super easy to put together stands where you

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just pop it in and you get the screw and you screw it down I love

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these it clicks down but like this cardboard I highly recommend that you

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actually do this on the ground it's just going to be easier to pull it out of the

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box you're not going to have to worry about dropping it on the floor but we're

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you know doing it the hard way and I'm going to see if I can like just lift

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this thing up you ready oh my

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God no get out of there

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ah looks squeaky clean don't get me

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wrong I uh I I've checked out the Samsung Odyssey Arc and that is also

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huge but that's like arguably a TV this thing is still just straight up a

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monitor and oh my God it's enormous wow

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what a peel one problem is that it's such a big

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display and this isn't LG's fault this is going to happen on just about any

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display this size but it's kind of wobbly like I'm definitely you know

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giving it a bit more than would normally hit it I think that ultimately you're

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going to want to put this thing on an ARM and you can it looks like it's 100x

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100 vas am mountable the stand isn't bad it's definitely not the stands problem

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it's just the fact that this thing is huge it's going to be a problem to do

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that as well because this thing is 24 lb with the stand and the panel itself is

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something like 18 lb it does have a bunch of motion you can do height adjustment something the Zenon Flex

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can't do by the way there's no height adjustment on that guy it can also

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swivel not much you're only getting a few degrees in either direction but you

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know what it's better than nothing you can definitely adjust it in your setup once it's there and then I think it can

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tilt it's not a bad amount of tilt either we've got two HDMI 2.1 ports a

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DisplayPort 1.4 optical audio and a

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usbb on the other side as well as two USB as's and our dcn for power and then

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there's also a headphone jack down here with DTS headphone X as well as

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Kensington lock I'm going to put the cable cover on yeah that was easy it's a

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pretty beefy back here so the while the rest of the panel itself thanks to it

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being OLED it's super thin you've got a lot of the computer components inside

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here like your motherboard and everything and honestly that's kind of

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why I'm just I'm perfectly fine with having the power brick like up here like

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if it's already if you're already taking up this much space take up a little more

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and then I don't have to take it up on the floor but that's okay I don't know if this is the ultra gear logo or the LG

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logo but either way looks good we're going to turn it on find out but not

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today but not before I set this up oh

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crap we got to move the first the other monitor first this thing is huge look at

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the size of it when I'm just sitting right in front of it and we've got to push like all the way back to the edge

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of the desk I'm definitely a multim monitor kind of person but if I was

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going to go with a single giant ass display it probably be this one uh I'm

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definitely a bigger fan of larger curvatures once you get into a screen

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that's this size or if you start going into 32x 9 territory but otherwise

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everything seems to be working just fine right out of the box it's CR ranked up to 240 HZ no problem we're using HDMI

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2.1 HDR enable HDR turn that on Boop

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yeah so now we got 10bit color High dynamic range it lists 603 nits here in

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Windows I don't think that's right their own specs say that it should reach about

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1,000 nits of peak brightness in HDR depending on what you're doing it's OLED

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so it's going to have a 0.3 millisecond gray degree response

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time which is just absolutely insane one of the nicest things about OLED is on

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top of the like super Inky blacks that everyone loves uh what you really want

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is that every pixel is a dimming Zone it's just it looks fantastic when you're

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watching HDR content absolutely stunning

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the only problem is that with an ultra wide YouTube doesn't have Ultra wide

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videos so we're just going to have black bars here but you can see that they just

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look black because it's OLED it just kind of disappears and if this was a

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dark room you'd hardly even be able to see it anymore it's such a good feature

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that you don't know you want until you've actually experienced it for

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yourself I want to try the remote they've included it pretty Bare Bones

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you've just got like input volume brightness oh actually having the brightness on the remote it's kind of

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Handy wow that takes forever I never want to use this again yeah the glare is

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actually kind of killing me it's not the it's not your fault Andy it's the studio

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lights they're just at this like perfect angle where no matter where I go I've

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got this one bar of glare that being said they do have a pretty decent

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anti-reflective coating it looks like so it's distracting to me personally but I

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always find that these uh kind of blurred out and antiglare Coatings are

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much more of a distraction for me than if it was just glossy in general when

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I've got the mirror finish my brain Tunes it out somehow I don't know how to

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explain it it's like when there's a blur my brain is sitting there trying to figure out what that blur is anyway to

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eat your own Some people prefer gloss Some people prefer matte this is 1440p

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on a 45 in screen so that's coming out

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to about 83 pixels per inch for design

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work this is probably not ideal like if I get in close I can start looking at

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pixels and you know you can get a bit of a screen door effect it's not awful and

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when it comes to gaming or just watching content like this especially when you're

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sitting a little further back particularly for a large 45-in screen it

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becomes not nearly as much of a problem as you might think it

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is wow it's gorgeous as for the OSD it's

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not bad we've got our HDR telling us that it's on it's got variable refresh rate it'll do decent compatible and free

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sync premium not pro and you know just compatible but that's okay game adjust

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yeah we got vrr on and off Crosshair FPS counter game reset so those are features

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that you see in a lot of gaming monitors but I don't really know anyone that uses them outside of maybe the Crosshair uh

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picture adjust we got brightness sharpness uh a lot of these are grayed

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out probably because of HDR if I turn that off I could probably adjust them

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and then our itut and general o hexagon lightting oh yeah there's RGB on this

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thing okay we got to check it out my only disappointment is that it is there

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on the sides but it's not present on the top here it's a kind of minor thing but

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I would have loved to see them actually complete the ring and go all the way

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around instead of just on the sides there but it's pretty good so the Zenon

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Flex doesn't have a height adjustable stand and they said that they tested it

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with a ton of different people and like people of different heights were totally

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fine uh with where the screen was partly just because of how big it was but I got

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to say that I don't like it way up here

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and I don't like it way down here however right around the middle it's

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actually about perfect for me personally and then we want to go to screen

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calibration HDR like below 100 you definitely see it

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but plus 50k I'm just going to keep this a 50 while we're searching I'll mention

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that this can do 98.5% of the DCI P3

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color space that's a lot it's not quite like you know 100% would be better or

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like even over that would be fine because HDR uh uses Rec 2020 and it can

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do much Beyond DCI P3 but that's still

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really good it's pretty respectable another point to make is that this thing

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does not come with speakers it's um really minor grievance and I know that

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most of you are never use your monitor speakers but like they're really nice to

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have even if they're garbage for those few moments where you just you need

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audio and you have no other options man this is crisp I'm sitting super close

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and honestly it feels totally fine like I actually really like this display I'm

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kind of leaning towards um going with one big display kind of like what lonus

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is doing I think that maybe I could get away with it like you know I like having

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Discord and other chat stuff up on a a secondary monitor but having this

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curvature when you're this close on a 21

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by9 screen is about right I don't like

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this much curve on a smaller display or on something that's not Ultra wide I

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just don't think it's necessary at all but for something this size especially

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when you're sitting like about this close man is it ever immersive as for

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the vibrancy and the color and everything it just looks fantastic like

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it really pops when you've got that HDR 1000 No Big T how could you do this to

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me but like look at these lights like these are getting nice and bright and they're really popping like especially

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that glare right there and even the floor here like that's definitely it

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might not be a thousand nits but that's pretty bright for the first time in like

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a pretty long time I'm actually really immersed there's something about just

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having the screen kind of wrap around you that just like feels right so while

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some might complain that 800r is too much curvature I think in a case like

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this it's perfectly fine now one of the other major improvements on this display

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over previous Ultra gears is getting oleds into that uh 240 HZ Zone 120

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should kind of be the minimum on gaming monitors these days just because we've

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seen how good it is compared to 60 and 240 I'm still not completely sold on I

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don't think it's uh necessary for most people I honestly can hardly tell like

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if if this was playing at 120 I'd probably be more than happy but I got to

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say it's man it's crispy like you don't ever feel like there's any kind of lag

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you don't ever feel feel like things are taking forever to respond especially

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when you've got that just insanely fast pixel response time that OLED's going to

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give you there's honestly not a lot wrong with this monitor if anything like

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it's just good the pixel density sure you can argue that you'd like it higher

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and that's fine I I understand but when it comes to just consuming content I'm

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sitting pretty close you guys and like this looks great until I start like

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actually getting in there and start looking for screen door effect the only

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real problem with this guy and honestly

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it's not that bad when you consider all the other Alternatives but this is

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$1,700 now it's OLED it's 45 in and it's

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240 htz I think at that price it's

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honestly pretty reasonable hold on sorry I had to

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burp okay the Zenon Flex for instance is

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using basically the same panel but you can curve it that thing is like 2 Grand

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do you want to pay an extra $300 for a Fe Fe that you're honestly probably not

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going to use that much or do you want a

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more adjustable stand I personally would go with this guy I I think that the

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stand is just pretty decent even if it's a little wobbly like I said that's

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because the display is huge um and just

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the ability to mount it personally like that just means the world of difference

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when it comes to a display this size I don't know Andy maybe I got to maybe I

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got to join the one screen gang and just live my life like this I probably can't

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afford it right now so I'm not going to

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but for anyone who's looking for like a super crazy screen I don't think you can

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go wrong with this the only way you can is if maybe you're a graphic designer

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and you really should have a higher pixel density other than that this thing

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is killer thanks for watching ShortCircuit if you want to check out another one check out the Zenon Flex it's

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basically the same thing as this one but it's got a really cool party trick that

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I don't know if it's worth the 300 bucks but it's pretty sweet