{"video_id":"kYUbq2e6EYM","title":"Do NOT Buy This For Gaming! - LG 32EP950","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2022-05-05T14:53:29Z","duration_s":896,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":5.4,"text":"a portion of this video is sponsored by Adobe Photoshop Lightroom watch to the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.6,"end_s":10.74,"text":"end to learn more there are two types of displays those for consuming content and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.519,"end_s":14.099,"text":"those for creating it and while they have a lot in common there are some key","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.48,"end_s":18.42,"text":"ways that they differ with the main one being color gamut you're probably","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.139,"end_s":22.68,"text":"already aware that a wider color gamut means your display can recreate a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.34,"end_s":30.3,"text":"broader range of colors but 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lot in common there are some key ways that they differ with the main one being color gamut you're probably already aware that a wider color gamut means your display can recreate a broader range of colors but what exactly are srgb Adobe RGB DCI P3 and why have creative types been spending tens of thousands of dollars on monitors that have more of them could this be the game changer that stops all that turning those expensive beats into dinosaurs and can we game on it even if we're not really supposed to yes yes of course we will if you guessed that the RGB stands for red green blue you're right standard RGB or srgb was created back in 1996 by HP and Microsoft and it's basically our default color space used for monitors printers and just about anything you look at online but srgb being 25 years old at this point wasn't the most forward-looking standard and we've come a long way think of the color spectrum like a rainbow and srgb kind of like a small sampling of those available colors speaking of colors our Northern Lights desk pad finally back in stock Pickers up to the ltdstore.com well that's where the newer Big Boy Color spaces come in adding more and more of the human visible spectrum so a monitor with full coverage of the DCI P3 color space for example can display a color game at about 25 percent wider than srgb but that's also where the problems come in because when a piece of content is created or mastered in one color space and then consumed on a device that doesn't properly support it you can end up with oversaturated or unnatural looking colors now the obvious solution would be to just have content creators use calibrated versions of the same Cheapo monitors that we use at home but that introduces a whole host of other problems like how could they adjust a color that their camera captured but their display cannot represent how can they ensure that their Masterpiece will look right on a higher Fidelity screen like in the cinema that's why colorists demand Superior displays which for film work can easily reach 30 or 40 thousand dollars now obviously for smaller content creators or even small Studios that kind of cost is Out Of Reach and that is where the 32 EP 950 comes in from LG it features a 4K OLED panel for blacks that are completely devoid of light remember the individual pixels can be turned off and it boasts 99 coverage of both the DCI P3 and Adobe RGB color spaces unlike some of the larger OLED displays out there it's only 31 and a half inches we'll get back to that missing half inch later and it runs at a refresh rate of 60 hertz which isn't the best but remember it's not for consuming content it's for creating it but I still want a game on what is on paper the best display I've ever looked at this is my first time seeing this game on such a wide gamut monitor but I don't notice a difference and I shouldn't because if we're in SDR we're only making use of srdb anyway and many consume in fact most consumer monitors these days are able to achieve pretty close to 100 coverage of srgb let's switch over to HDR though probably want to crank our luminance given that this is an OLED Monitor and here it is we can verify if we're in the right color space yep so we're in BT 2100 HDR and theoretically this is the widest color gamut I've ever seen on a monitor honestly speaking this is such a kind of muted scene that I kind of want to try a different part of the game oh wow this looks pretty man this is still a good looking game even after it's been a few years now with that said it's it's gorgeous but to my eye it's not um you know that one better can we try this side by side with like just a consumer grade IPS panel that's also been calibrated you thought of that we have one of course we do now to be clear this is still a monitor that costs two thousand dollars brand new but I mean I can't um boy okay okay this is higher contrast for sure even though the one on the right is rated for a peak brightness of a thousand nits I'm definitely retaining more detail on the dark portions of the scene I'm gonna switch it again now there's still lots of detail in the dark portion of the scene this is this is very nice as a sanity check we restarted the game with the LG monitor completely disconnected just in case there was some kind of tone mapping problem switching from one to the next and yep it it still looks great but even if we can't tell the difference between This and like a two thousand dollar monitor why don't we go full consumer like 600 monitor like high-end consumer maybe then we will see it one thing to consider before we do this is that monitors at this price point don't generally support HDR or at least don't really support it properly so I'm just going to double check that both of our displays are in srgb because that's the color space you'd be in for SDR but I'm going to use the little nipple navigation that personally I am quite partial to like this convenient quick color space changer it's nice I need to make sure that you're in uh srgb mode as well okay that is a difference honestly speaking I don't know that I like the OLED picture better um ploof is this what's supposed to happen you're supposed to get more correct colors right people tend to like Brighter Images and more saturated images and I would agree that like the left probably looks closer to like if this was real life that's what it would probably look like a lot of people actually prefer over saturation will the game output Adobe RGB do any games support Adobe RGB I don't think so no okay it'll try its best to sort of tone map to it right it's not going to be perfect most games are still made with srgb in mind because people don't have expensive monitors or TVs okay well one of the problems is that we've got the brightness way down on this and to the human eye higher brightness does tend to look better at least to a point so let's go ahead and fix that up get them kind of similar actually that looks yeah and looks very close it's an OLED already the last thing you want to do is set it to 25 brightness okay this looks a lot closer now we don't have quite the same kind of green cast and I would say that it's it's pretty clear this is the the better looking in srgb mode the difference is really um not as much as you might want though obviously this you know Moss or whatever this is is more vibrant in spite of the fact that they're both in the same color space and if we wanted to try out a different color space like Adobe RGB we'd probably see more pop to it yes we do but that's just tone mapping that's not because the content is actually supposed to look like that with this one you can obviously tune your saturation or whatever but you can't actually change the color space that it is representing it's just srgb adjusted to look worse at as hard as it is to tell the difference it's absolutely beautiful probably the best looking monitor I've ever seen and if it wasn't stuck at 60 hertz I mean I can see how high-end Gamers would be tempted before you ask by the way we did try overclocking it no dice not even 61 Hertz after speaking with the senior engineer at LG we learned that a higher refresh rate panel is on the horizon and they're working on variable refresh rate support but you've got to understand that the method they use to drive a panel with individual self-illuminated pixels it's not the same as LG's other gaming displays and getting this stuff tuned takes time color accuracy was the highest priority and everything else went by the wayside and if Disney Pixar's take is anything to go by it looks like LG nailed it they have actually endorsed this display which is very uncommon for Disney who tries to stay neutral when it comes to just about everything it's not as good as a thirty thousand dollar Mastery monitor particularly when it comes to brightness which we'll talk more about later but it is good enough to get most of the way there so the idea is to have most of the team using the 32 EP 950 for their day-to-day work then have one or maybe two people with expensive Mastery monitors to double check it and make corrections as they see fit and this is actually the setup that they used for the film Luca it's also a much more portable solution to work from home compared to such professional beasts which has become more and more common in the last couple of years it is very light at just 5.3 kilograms or just under 12 pounds and it is really thin compared to some of the other professional displays that we've looked at in the past by comparison the 1600 nit ASUS pa32ucg takes up a ton of desk space and it requires a more robust ARM if you want to clamp it to your desk the 32ep 950 is equipped with two DisplayPort 1.4 connections HDMI 2.0 which I guess makes sense since it can't do 4K 120 hertz anyway a USB hub to easily connect peripherals with Filter cables USBC with 90 watts of power delivery if you wanted to connect and charge your laptop with a single cable and of course a good old-fashioned headphone jack as for the downsides I'd say Blair is an issue even with the anti-glare coating that they've put on so you'll want to make sure that your home office has some blinds for those sunny days and as great as OLED looks there's always going to be a bit of fear regarding burning especially when you consider that many professional tools have static on-screen elements that will be there for probably 90 percent of the display's lifetime okay well that's where that half inch of screen space that's missing comes in check this out this second inner bezel here that goes all the way around the screen it's kind of distracting once you notice it but it does serve a purpose it actually gives the screen 50 pixels on all sides to shift the image around helping to reduce the chance of burning take this with a grain of salt but anecdotally our engineering contact of LG hasn't seen any of these displays suffering from Burnin and he told us that as long as you're not blasting a single spot of light or a super bright light for very extended periods of time it should be fine for years to come now when testing ours with Cal men's color Checker software we got an average Delta e out of the box of 1.5 in srgb and Adobe RGB mode that's not perfect but it's pretty darn good out of the box and anyone willing to Shell out for this kind of display is going to want to calibrate themselves before they get to work anyway it unfortunately doesn't come with a Colorimeter like some other expensive displays so you'll just have to consider that it's going to cost you another two or three hundred dollars on top of the price tag though you'll only need one color emitter if you're planning on buying a handful of these for your studio speaking of the price are two other issues with this are price and HDR support the 32 ep950 is Visa certified HDR true black 400 what that means is that while it gets plenty dark because you can turn the pixels off It suffers from the same pitfalls as other olives meaning that it can't get that bright and it's only really suitable for an optimal HDR viewing experience in a fairly light controlled environment it just can't achieve the same kind of crazy high knits Peak brightness that we've seen on recent monitors like the Odyssey Neo G9 and the pro art pa32ucg from ASUS with that being said there's only one Higher rating currently for True black HDR 500 so you're probably not missing out on much and as for the price there's two ways of looking at that on the one hand four thousand dollars is a crap ton of money and I wish it was cheaper because I mean who wouldn't want just perfectly calibrated colors all the time on everything but on the other hand at a thousand dollars less than a top tier Pro art it's a bargain if you were shopping in that price range and you can even save a G by dropping down to the smaller 27 inch version and for the Apple crowd the direct comparison would be something like the Apple Pro display xdr which costs a thousand dollars more and doesn't come in a smaller cheaper alternative model it also doesn't have 99 coverage of adobe RGB but what it does have is the ability to work seamlessly with macOS by contrast the 32ep 950 works with Apple products but getting it to look just right involves changing ICC profiles and an edid override the engineer we talked to actually wrote a 16-page document with instructions on getting it to work so if you do go the Apple route you won't get quite the same it just works experience but the good news is you can pay yourself handsomely to fiddle around with the money that you save on monitor stands and this portion of the video is sponsored by Adobe Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is the cloud-based service that gives you everything you need to create edit organize store and share photos across any device we use Lightroom to edit all of our photos on lttstore.com to make sure that our merch and our models look their best Lightroom offers easy to use editing tools from presets to detailed adjustments to make your photos stand out and you can start your project on mobile web or desktop and have your edits automatically applied no matter where you are their new super resolution feature uses artificial intelligence to increase the resolution of your photos with astonishingly accurate results and you don't have to take my word for it try out Adobe Photoshop Lightroom today at the link down below thanks again to Adobe for sponsoring this portion of the video thanks for watching guys if you liked this video make sure to check out a review of the god king of monitors the pa32ucg it's everything that's great about this except it also does 120 hertz for that extra thousand dollars although it's full array local dimming so you get a little bit of halos okay there's no perfect monitor yet"}