1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,120 Over a year ago at CES I saw the Ola G9 and it was incredible, but it's expensive 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,800 Gigabytes here to maybe fill that gap with the co49dq and I've got to say it is enormous 3 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:16,400 This thing wouldn't even fit in my back seat of my car 4 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,880 Ignore the do not open from this side. We packed it up this way 5 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:27,360 So it should come out just fine one of the problems with curved is that these boxes are so 6 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:33,200 Freaking deep on the one hand. It's great. They come with a three-year warranty on the other hand 7 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:36,560 You've got to find somewhere to keep this box for three 8 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:43,200 Freaking years just in case it breaks down. We've got our factory calibration report 9 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:47,520 Got the base of our stand got the other part of our stand the column 10 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:51,600 one thing to note is they are using the nice double column design because 11 00:00:52,480 --> 00:00:56,720 It's a 49 inch display 32 by 9. This thing is enormous 12 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:00,240 It's gonna need all the support it can get as for the cables that come in the box 13 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:08,480 We've got HDMI 2.1 ultra high speed dp 1.4 c13 power cable usb b to a but now 14 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:14,160 Oh my god, it's so big. I should just click 15 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:18,080 Clack it's going in it wants to there we go 16 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:20,880 Here we go. Just push it 17 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:26,720 It's enormous if you couldn't already tell this thing is 18 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:35,520 1800r curve to help protect in shipping They've got a really nice peel that we already peeled off to do all their testing 19 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:40,720 Really nice. You're not going to get any micro scratches. I've never seen any micro scratching 20 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:45,680 From the little foam that comes on top of a display, but people complain about it online 21 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:51,280 So I don't know what they're doing, but the screen film will definitely protect it as for the stand 22 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:55,760 It's not bad. It's got that base swivel that I personally prefer and it's actually got 23 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:02,240 Quite a bit for a monitor this size. I wasn't expecting this much swivel and then we've got some tilt 24 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:09,120 And I'm not even going to try to pivot it It's not going to happen. I can tell from the stand it's not going to happen 25 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:13,760 And I don't think anyone's going to be pivoting this thing to go to portrait mode. It can't you can't do it 26 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:19,680 It's not meant to do that bell. It is not meant to do that as for io. It's going to be a little tough because it's so 27 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:24,720 Dang big we've got our c14 power connector here and then on the other side 28 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:31,280 Oh, it's nice and labeled for us. That's always a plus. It's got a headphone jack two HDMI 2.1 ports 29 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:36,720 DisplayPort 1.4. We've also got our usb b port for connecting to your computer 30 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:44,320 For any peripherals or firmware updates you might want to do as well as uh two usb 3.2 type a 31 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:50,880 Overall design is pretty decent We've also got pretty minimal branding, but it is a little cringe like team up fight on 32 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,720 I don't know if they need to tell me that but I do love how hidden this aorus logo is 33 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:58,000 Even though it's on the back of the monitor that you're not going to be looking at too frequently 34 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:03,840 Okay, it's all set up here. Looks pretty good. We've got fair amount of height adjustment too now that it's on the desk 35 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:09,840 Let's put it about there 38 40 by 1080. Nope. We want 51 20 by 14 40p 36 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:14,560 Absolutely beautiful and then this feels like garbage. So we're going to change that from 60 hertz 37 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:24,480 All the way up to 144. Hey There we go. Now a lot of displays have been hitting 240 plus hertz recently, which is fantastic and 38 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:31,200 They're getting that 13 000 clear mr rating from vesa. It is still OLED, but because it's down to the 144 39 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:37,840 We're only going to get the 8 000 rating, which is still really good and better than most other gaming monitors 40 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:42,320 But uh, it's a minor point that you might care about. You're not going to get 200 plus 41 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:46,560 Hurts on this thing. Uh, but what you are going to get is basically two 42 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:55,200 16 by 9 displays at 14 40p, which is just so weird. I've never been a fan of 32 by 9 43 00:03:55,840 --> 00:04:05,680 For me, it's just too much Screen all in one place, but some people love the whole idea of using like picture in picture or picture by picture 44 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:11,840 And making like one side of the screen for your game and then one side of the screen for whatever else you want to do 45 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:16,640 Maybe discord or twitch or maybe you're taking notes. Maybe you're in class. I don't know. I'm not going to judge 46 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:21,040 Now this display mode setting is a little weird. It's either full or aspect 47 00:04:21,280 --> 00:04:24,720 The reason that's important is because if you hook up a console to this, they don't support 48 00:04:25,280 --> 00:04:31,360 wide and so if you go full It's just going to stretch the whole image across and maybe someone out there likes that 49 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:36,240 I don't think you should so keep it on aspect if you want it to be correct 50 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:42,240 PIP baby So I want pbp. I want picture by picture. Whoa, that's great 51 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:45,280 So now what we need to do though if you want to take advantage of this 52 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,760 If you have to either plug in a separate device 53 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:51,680 Or you have to plug in uh another HDMI cable 54 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:56,560 To your computer so that it's sending two different signals to the different parts of the display 55 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:01,200 If you're just tuning in now, it looks broken because the screen is pure black 56 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,480 It's probably got a bit of that magenta tinge because it's cuti OLED 57 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:09,840 We've got studio lights blasting on this thing I don't know what to tell you guys as soon as you take it into your home 58 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:15,760 And you're just in like wherever as long as you don't have full sun Windows blasting on it. It looks fine, but 59 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:23,840 This is ShortCircuit not long circuit So we're going to just play it the way nature intended at sweet sweet 32 by 9 60 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:28,080 The nice thing about that instead of using two separate displays is 61 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:32,080 You've always got bezels All right, so if you've got two monitors side by side 62 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:38,320 You're gonna have that weird bezel in between if you go with the pvp method boom now. It's just perfect nothing in the way 63 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:45,520 I don't think I want anything else here right now So let's let's game doom is fantastic and that it will play at basically any aspect ratio you want it to 64 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:52,000 Look at the dual up video. It was weird. It was like four by three or so. I can't remember what the aspect ratio was for 65 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:54,000 But it looked amazing 66 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:00,720 Okay, let's make sure it's all set to being pretty 67 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:06,160 Um 32 by 9 not 1080p we want 1440p 68 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,240 It's so dumb 69 00:06:11,840 --> 00:06:19,520 Um ultra sure Fly one of the problems you notice with ultra wide is that uh, look not everything is built 70 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,640 For ultra wide so we've got this nice splash screen here 71 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:28,800 But it only goes to here and then this ui since the ui is probably being told to just like draw on the left 72 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:35,520 And that one's probably just draw on the right They're on the extremes as much as I love ultra wide when it works perfectly when it doesn't 73 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:39,280 It just kind of looks weird and wrong and it can be hard to get the hang of it 74 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:44,720 This feels good though. Oh my god. It's like my entire 75 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:50,240 Peripheral vision is full just perfectly 76 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:54,000 Full is 21 by 9 just not good enough 77 00:06:54,960 --> 00:07:03,920 And so you want 32 by 9 Because 21 by 9 just gives you a taste while still maintaining all of those bugs. I was talking about whereas like this is just 78 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:10,160 Right in my face like I cannot get over how cool this looks right now, especially with OLED and HDR 79 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:16,480 Like yeah, it's only 144 hertz but because of those instant pixel response times from OLED it looks really crispy 80 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:23,440 But you know, we know doom looks good. What about the other HDR content one thing that is kind of weird about this guy is 81 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:29,440 Our peak brightness is only listed at 456 nits from Windows, which is usually correct 82 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:33,360 But what we found is that it will do a thousand 83 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:38,400 However, you're gonna have to change some things. So in our regular HDR mode, it's not in the setting 84 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:44,640 osd It's not in here. So what you're gonna have to do is Go out and then we got to go to ap l stabilize 85 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:47,840 So ours is already set to high because we've been doing some testing 86 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:54,880 But it will default to middle out of the box And so you've got to set this to high or you're not going to get a thousand nits 87 00:07:54,960 --> 00:08:01,120 We should see that even though Windows is stating 456 to the naked eye. This all looks pretty good. It's very vivid 88 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:05,040 It's very colorful. But while we were testing it, we noticed something 89 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:10,320 Pretty interesting the HDR accuracy is actually not very good at all 90 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:13,120 Some of the worst i've ever seen to be perfectly honest 91 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:18,640 However, when you're just looking at it in person unless you have something that is perfect 92 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:22,400 Or close to it right next to it. You're not really 93 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:29,280 Going to be able to tell maybe if you're a purist or a colorist or you're just really really good at looking at displays 94 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:34,080 Um, but frankly even looking at this re footage knowing that it's not accurate 95 00:08:34,560 --> 00:08:41,200 It looks pretty good to me We noticed especially in resineval 4 that it just kind of over brightens everything way too much 96 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:46,960 And so you'll have let's say a car truck lights pointed somewhere and they're pointed way off here 97 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:50,800 Leon's standing over here So he should just be kind of like soft lit by them 98 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:57,680 But he's not he looks like the lights are shining directly on him and unless you've got the game running simultaneously on two different displays 99 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:03,840 You're really not going to notice you're just going to think oh, it's kind of bright But for a game like resident evil that wants to be moody and dark 100 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:09,600 It doesn't all of a sudden look all that moody and dark anymore So I think it's perfectly fine 101 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:13,840 For the vast majority of people I think it's still going to look good 102 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:18,400 But that can be a huge deciding factor for some of you out there 103 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:27,120 It's not going to technically be Accurate when it comes to HDR content as for sdr content. It's not so bad. We measured an average of 1.5 104 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:31,120 However, once we check our maximum, it's all up at 9.1 105 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:36,080 So we found that blues are just kind of under saturating and then reds are being pulled out a little too much 106 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:38,720 so again, it's like it looks good 107 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,960 And most people aren't really going to notice especially when the average is so low 108 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:50,400 but A discerning customer might be a little more picky as for color gamut. It's pretty decent. It's cutie OLED 109 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:57,680 So we've got 99 coverage of p3 and then a whopping 82 percent of bt 2020 which is strong. It's great 110 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:03,200 Now let's talk price monitors have been coming down in price quite a bit recently 111 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:09,120 And this guy retails for 1,300 bucks. I know that's still a lot of money 112 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:13,680 But the thing is just a few years ago OLED 32 by 9 113 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:19,600 49 inches 144 hertz like this thing would have been 2 3 grand easy if not even more than that 114 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:24,800 The only problem is that currently the OLED g9 would be 115 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:29,280 $1,100 on sale Obviously sales change all the time 116 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:34,560 So who knows whether that $1,100 that the g9 is going for is going to stay right? 117 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:38,480 Maybe it goes away and comes back frequently throughout the year. I don't know but 118 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:44,880 What I can say is that if you're picking between the two displays and that's the price go with the g9 119 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:51,280 If you're not and it's at msrp This does look pretty compelling for 1300 bucks 120 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:58,640 Since filming the pricing of the oris monitor has dropped to $1,100 if you can't get the g9 on sale 121 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:04,880 This is a pretty solid price point. Thanks for watching. That's ShortCircuit. This is the Gigabyte co 49 dq 122 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:09,760 If you want to look at another very similar panel check out the samsung OLED g9