ah we got the gr 95 QE from LG this
thing is a huge it's a 45 in curved
ultrawide OLED that's going to do 240
htz oh it's so fast it's so fast LG
didn't even sponsor whoa LG didn't even sponsor this one
they're so confident that you know these are going to be beautiful displays that
they just sent it to us they said hey open it up check them out and I can
confirm I've seen a lot of these panels
specifically uh they're kind of the new hotness this year for OLED so we're
getting them in ASUS in Acer like everyone's making this monitor but LG
makes the panels okay I hate styrofoam I
hate it so much I actually opened this upside down which is a little unfortunate cuz now I've just got the
panel kind of hanging out here uh I'm an idiot and uh there's handles here that's
always going to tell you whether it's right side up or not it's kind of
expensive but it's pretty good we got a box LG Life's good uh we've got our
remote this thing does come with a remote so I'm actually pretty excited to
check that out what else we got a bunch of cables we got a cable clip or
something Yep looks like that's for clipping cables on the back of your monitor HDMI probably a 2.1 cable since
this is a 240 HZ monitor yep 8K 60 power
brick for you external power brick people who love a slim design on the
Monitor and then you're okay with this big beefy power brick on the ground
power bricks rated for 210 Watts I think this normally draws about 160 170 but it
can Spike depending on how bright you're making your screen what else they've got
here is a USB A2B cable as well as a
DisplayPort cable probably just 1.4 since there's only 1.4 connections on
this monitor I know DisplayPort 2.0 is barely a thing but like I'd really like
to see it on more monitors especially when you're paying a hefty price oh okay
here we go this is what I really wanted display quality assurance report telling
us all the measurement conditions which is nice like the color temperature they checked it at and the input signal and
test equipment and all that one piece two piece we'll connect our stand in a
little bit here it's a 45 in display with a 21 by9 aspect ratio you're
getting an ultra wide here and it has an 800 R curvature so like the reason why
this box is so thick is so that it can actually support the monitor's curved
nature inside this box we've got our stand we're going to put it together
here luckily it's one of those super easy to put together stands where you
just pop it in and you get the screw and you screw it down I love
these it clicks down but like this cardboard I highly recommend that you
actually do this on the ground it's just going to be easier to pull it out of the
box you're not going to have to worry about dropping it on the floor but we're
you know doing it the hard way and I'm going to see if I can like just lift
this thing up you ready oh my
God no get out of there
ah looks squeaky clean don't get me
wrong I uh I I've checked out the Samsung Odyssey Arc and that is also
huge but that's like arguably a TV this thing is still just straight up a
monitor and oh my God it's enormous wow
what a peel one problem is that it's such a big
display and this isn't LG's fault this is going to happen on just about any
display this size but it's kind of wobbly like I'm definitely you know
giving it a bit more than would normally hit it I think that ultimately you're
going to want to put this thing on an ARM and you can it looks like it's 100x
100 vas am mountable the stand isn't bad it's definitely not the stands problem
it's just the fact that this thing is huge it's going to be a problem to do
that as well because this thing is 24 lb with the stand and the panel itself is
something like 18 lb it does have a bunch of motion you can do height adjustment something the Zenon Flex
can't do by the way there's no height adjustment on that guy it can also
swivel not much you're only getting a few degrees in either direction but you
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
tilt it's not a bad amount of tilt either we've got two HDMI 2.1 ports a
DisplayPort 1.4 optical audio and a
usbb on the other side as well as two USB as's and our dcn for power and then
there's also a headphone jack down here with DTS headphone X as well as
Kensington lock I'm going to put the cable cover on yeah that was easy it's a
pretty beefy back here so the while the rest of the panel itself thanks to it
being OLED it's super thin you've got a lot of the computer components inside
here like your motherboard and everything and honestly that's kind of
why I'm just I'm perfectly fine with having the power brick like up here like
if it's already if you're already taking up this much space take up a little more
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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today but not before I set this up oh
crap we got to move the first the other monitor first this thing is huge look at
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
of the desk I'm definitely a multim monitor kind of person but if I was
going to go with a single giant ass display it probably be this one uh I'm
definitely a bigger fan of larger curvatures once you get into a screen
that's this size or if you start going into 32x 9 territory but otherwise
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
2.1 HDR enable HDR turn that on Boop
yeah so now we got 10bit color High dynamic range it lists 603 nits here in
Windows I don't think that's right their own specs say that it should reach about
1,000 nits of peak brightness in HDR depending on what you're doing it's OLED
so it's going to have a 0.3 millisecond gray degree response
time which is just absolutely insane one of the nicest things about OLED is on
top of the like super Inky blacks that everyone loves uh what you really want
is that every pixel is a dimming Zone it's just it looks fantastic when you're
watching HDR content absolutely stunning
the only problem is that with an ultra wide YouTube doesn't have Ultra wide
videos so we're just going to have black bars here but you can see that they just
look black because it's OLED it just kind of disappears and if this was a
dark room you'd hardly even be able to see it anymore it's such a good feature
that you don't know you want until you've actually experienced it for
yourself I want to try the remote they've included it pretty Bare Bones
you've just got like input volume brightness oh actually having the brightness on the remote it's kind of
Handy wow that takes forever I never want to use this again yeah the glare is
actually kind of killing me it's not the it's not your fault Andy it's the studio
lights they're just at this like perfect angle where no matter where I go I've
got this one bar of glare that being said they do have a pretty decent
anti-reflective coating it looks like so it's distracting to me personally but I
always find that these uh kind of blurred out and antiglare Coatings are
much more of a distraction for me than if it was just glossy in general when
I've got the mirror finish my brain Tunes it out somehow I don't know how to
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
eat your own Some people prefer gloss Some people prefer matte this is 1440p
on a 45 in screen so that's coming out
to about 83 pixels per inch for design
work this is probably not ideal like if I get in close I can start looking at
pixels and you know you can get a bit of a screen door effect it's not awful and
when it comes to gaming or just watching content like this especially when you're
sitting a little further back particularly for a large 45-in screen it
becomes not nearly as much of a problem as you might think it
is wow it's gorgeous as for the OSD it's
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
sync premium not pro and you know just compatible but that's okay game adjust
yeah we got vrr on and off Crosshair FPS counter game reset so those are features
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
picture adjust we got brightness sharpness uh a lot of these are grayed
out probably because of HDR if I turn that off I could probably adjust them
and then our itut and general o hexagon lightting oh yeah there's RGB on this
thing okay we got to check it out my only disappointment is that it is there
on the sides but it's not present on the top here it's a kind of minor thing but
I would have loved to see them actually complete the ring and go all the way
around instead of just on the sides there but it's pretty good so the Zenon
Flex doesn't have a height adjustable stand and they said that they tested it
with a ton of different people and like people of different heights were totally
fine uh with where the screen was partly just because of how big it was but I got
to say that I don't like it way up here
and I don't like it way down here however right around the middle it's
actually about perfect for me personally and then we want to go to screen
calibration HDR like below 100 you definitely see it
but plus 50k I'm just going to keep this a 50 while we're searching I'll mention
that this can do 98.5% of the DCI P3
color space that's a lot it's not quite like you know 100% would be better or
like even over that would be fine because HDR uh uses Rec 2020 and it can
do much Beyond DCI P3 but that's still
really good it's pretty respectable another point to make is that this thing
does not come with speakers it's um really minor grievance and I know that
most of you are never use your monitor speakers but like they're really nice to
have even if they're garbage for those few moments where you just you need
audio and you have no other options man this is crisp I'm sitting super close
and honestly it feels totally fine like I actually really like this display I'm
kind of leaning towards um going with one big display kind of like what lonus
is doing I think that maybe I could get away with it like you know I like having
Discord and other chat stuff up on a a secondary monitor but having this
curvature when you're this close on a 21
by9 screen is about right I don't like
this much curve on a smaller display or on something that's not Ultra wide I
just don't think it's necessary at all but for something this size especially
when you're sitting like about this close man is it ever immersive as for
the vibrancy and the color and everything it just looks fantastic like
it really pops when you've got that HDR 1000 No Big T how could you do this to
me but like look at these lights like these are getting nice and bright and they're really popping like especially
that glare right there and even the floor here like that's definitely it
might not be a thousand nits but that's pretty bright for the first time in like
a pretty long time I'm actually really immersed there's something about just
having the screen kind of wrap around you that just like feels right so while
some might complain that 800r is too much curvature I think in a case like
this it's perfectly fine now one of the other major improvements on this display
over previous Ultra gears is getting oleds into that uh 240 HZ Zone 120
should kind of be the minimum on gaming monitors these days just because we've
seen how good it is compared to 60 and 240 I'm still not completely sold on I
don't think it's uh necessary for most people I honestly can hardly tell like
if if this was playing at 120 I'd probably be more than happy but I got to
say it's man it's crispy like you don't ever feel like there's any kind of lag
you don't ever feel feel like things are taking forever to respond especially
when you've got that just insanely fast pixel response time that OLED's going to
give you there's honestly not a lot wrong with this monitor if anything like
it's just good the pixel density sure you can argue that you'd like it higher
and that's fine I I understand but when it comes to just consuming content I'm
sitting pretty close you guys and like this looks great until I start like
actually getting in there and start looking for screen door effect the only
real problem with this guy and honestly
it's not that bad when you consider all the other Alternatives but this is
$1,700 now it's OLED it's 45 in and it's
240 htz I think at that price it's
honestly pretty reasonable hold on sorry I had to
burp okay the Zenon Flex for instance is
using basically the same panel but you can curve it that thing is like 2 Grand
do you want to pay an extra $300 for a Fe Fe that you're honestly probably not
going to use that much or do you want a
more adjustable stand I personally would go with this guy I I think that the
stand is just pretty decent even if it's a little wobbly like I said that's
because the display is huge um and just
the ability to mount it personally like that just means the world of difference
when it comes to a display this size I don't know Andy maybe I got to maybe I
got to join the one screen gang and just live my life like this I probably can't
afford it right now so I'm not going to
but for anyone who's looking for like a super crazy screen I don't think you can
go wrong with this the only way you can is if maybe you're a graphic designer
and you really should have a higher pixel density other than that this thing
is killer thanks for watching ShortCircuit if you want to check out another one check out the Zenon Flex it's
basically the same thing as this one but it's got a really cool party trick that
I don't know if it's worth the 300 bucks but it's pretty sweet