it's here the biggest baddest Ultra
widest monitor yet LG's 38 u99 boasts
38 in of productivity and gaming
goodness with higher resolution higher refresh rate more inputs and AMD free
sync among the improvements they've made since I first laid eyes on the 34
u97 that's been my daily driver at the office since its release nearly 2 years
ago but is it really a step forward can
a monitor be simply too big no spoilers so for now the answer is
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video description to learn more let's open with the speeds and feeds the 38
u99 rocks a curved IPS 100% srgb rated
panel with Max brightness that exceeds its 300 nit rating in my testing and
that I would describe as freaking bright
I used dark room profile one most of the
time in my office it runs at a native resolution of 3840 by 1,600 which is
about 34 as many pixels as UHD and it
uses the extra bandwidth that it saves to break the 60 HZ barrier and offer up
a 75 HZ maximum refresh rate on either
its dp1.2 or USB type-c port very
refreshing all of this amounts to nearly exactly the same pixel density as the
older 34in 144 40p models and going
further back in time the 16 by10 30in
monitors that were hugely popular among Ballin ass Ballers about 10 years ago
for good reason it is a great sweet spot
because it's basically as fine as you can go without scaling something that
Windows 8 and prior handled very poorly
and even on Windows 10 is imperfect at
least from a normal distance I found that with the UC 99 I needed to sit a
little further back than I normally do to avoid significant head movements to
interact with onscreen elements in the corners H let's continue for I/O we've
got a headphone jack dp1.2 dual HDMI 2.0
USB type-c that access both an Uplink
for the Android BC 1.2 fast charge supporting Hub and as an alternate plug
for the DisplayPort input and on the software side LG's onscreen control has
many more window Arrangement modes and basically did what it was supposed to so
no complaints here the stand though is one step forward one step back IMO the
display clicks into it with no tools required thumbs up and the couple
degrees of pivot adjustment actually makes it easier to compensate for slight
misalignments but whether it's due to the weight of the panel or the plastic
ARM I wasn't especially pleased with the screen wobble that I experienced while
typing at my desk not on such a premium
product the onscreen menu is Snappy to navigate thanks to the four Direction
nipple button interface and much quicker
onboard processor but to take it one
step further I'd really like to see programmable shortcuts as it is left and
right are volume adjustments which makes sense but up and down both both just
show me my current input and current image profile while clicking the nipple
brings up mostly sensible options Bluetooth audio is a neat feature that
lets you use the UC 99's fairly decent speakers with your phone over Bluetooth
for me that one would come up a lot less
often than wanting to toggle the motion blur reduction mode that claims as low
as 1 millisecond perceived pixel response times when you're running at
the maximum 75 HZ for refresh rate over DisplayPort the principle here is
similar to NVIDIA's light boost it rapidly strobes the backlight simulating
the way that a CRT Works which results in a noticeable Improvement in image
sharpness during quick movements in games but it looks like flickering butt
outside of games and costs 16
interactions with the menu button every time you want to toggle
it this could be addressed by the onscreen control control application
that at least allows picture modes to be adjusted a little more quickly but at
this time that only supports a small subset of the monitors onboard controls
so some convenience and comfort enhancing features are stuck buried so
deep that I suspect many owners of this display will never even find them I'd
like to see some improvement there while we're at it LG's dual linkup picture by
picture mode is another great example of solid idea B minus implementation it
lets you pull up plug in a compatible
type-c port and boom with that one cable
you can have your desktop on the one side your plugged in peripherals in the
monitor working on your laptop and your laptop displayed on the other side and
it charges laptops up to 60 watts too
with Synergy this amazing Network mouse
and keyboard sharing software that Luke showed off here this could be an amazing
use case for folks like me who still use their laptop while they're out and about
but prefer to sit at the desktop in the
evening again though I can't make this the default behavior for when I plug
something in and it's 11 clicks to toggle it every time not to mention that
if you're using DisplayPort for your desktop for that 75 HZ refresh rate you
will need to use HDMI for your laptop not the type-c input the two DP inputs
cannot be used concurrently and while I'm at bone headed slip-ups in the
attention to detail Department what the
actual hell were they thinking putting a persistence icon in the bottom right of
my screen when I have Bluetooth audio playing I mean if you must have an
indicator so that I don't get confused and call support complaining that my
speakers aren't working make it pop up when I adjust the volume or have a small
LED off screen anything else would have
been better than that on to the positive
stuff though performance of the panel can't really be faulted backlight bleed
was within reason and subjectively viewing angles and uniformity were very
strong points especially for a display of this size with color accuracy out of
the box in the custom profile of all things being pretty darn close but it
does feel a little like LG tried to be everything to everyone and ended up
achieving only 80% of every category
they're trying to sell the extra screen real estate to content creators but this
is a $1,500 srgb panel at the dawn of the age
of HDR but while the 75 HZ refresh rate
is an absolute godsend for gamers you
can hate on this all you want but I'm not convinced too many of the folks
gaming at near 4K resolutions are running AMD Hardware these days and I'd
have preferred two separate SKS and at
least 10 bit Adobe RGB preferably Rec 709 content creation model and a more
gamer specific one with g-sync rather than free sync so LG is not going to
like this but while the increased size of the 38 u99 makes the 3x1 vertical
layout noticeably more usable which is a definite plus overall I found myself
either sitting back further or moving my head more like I would with a multim
monitor setup rather than being able to take it all in like I can with its 34in
cousin and I'm not 100% sure that I
prefer that it's not that it's a bad monitor at all it's in my top five
probably even my top three but maybe I
just came into this expecting an entirely new computering experience like
LG has done to me in the past and when that wasn't what I got I was easily
annoyed by small oversights that could have been avoided by talking to me for
an hour before beginning the product development cycle though I would love to
hear from you guys in the comments if you think I completely missed the mark
and Jake con turnley here has already informed me that for his brother this
would be amazing because he works on circuit design and the bigger the screen
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