WEBVTT 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 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 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:16.400 This thing wouldn't even fit in my back seat of my car 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:20.880 Ignore the do not open from this side. We packed it up this way 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 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 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:36.560 You've got to find somewhere to keep this box for three 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:43.200 Freaking years just in case it breaks down. We've got our factory calibration report 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:47.520 Got the base of our stand got the other part of our stand the column 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:51.600 one thing to note is they are using the nice double column design because 00:00:52.480 --> 00:00:56.720 It's a 49 inch display 32 by 9. This thing is enormous 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 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 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:14.160 Oh my god, it's so big. I should just click 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:18.080 Clack it's going in it wants to there we go 00:01:18.880 --> 00:01:20.880 Here we go. Just push it 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:26.720 It's enormous if you couldn't already tell this thing is 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:02:19.760 --> 00:02:24.720 Dang big we've got our c14 power connector here and then on the other side 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 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:36.720 DisplayPort 1.4. We've also got our usb b port for connecting to your computer 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:03:43.040 --> 00:03:46.560 Hurts on this thing. Uh, but what you are going to get is basically two 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 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 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 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 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:21.040 Now this display mode setting is a little weird. It's either full or aspect 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 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 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 00:04:36.880 --> 00:04:42.240 PIP baby So I want pbp. I want picture by picture. Whoa, that's great 00:04:42.320 --> 00:04:45.280 So now what we need to do though if you want to take advantage of this 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:47.760 If you have to either plug in a separate device 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:51.680 Or you have to plug in uh another HDMI cable 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 00:04:56.880 --> 00:05:01.200 If you're just tuning in now, it looks broken because the screen is pure black 00:05:01.520 --> 00:05:04.480 It's probably got a bit of that magenta tinge because it's cuti OLED 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 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 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 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:28.080 The nice thing about that instead of using two separate displays is 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 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 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 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 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:54.000 But it looked amazing 00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:00.720 Okay, let's make sure it's all set to being pretty 00:06:01.440 --> 00:06:06.160 Um 32 by 9 not 1080p we want 1440p 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:10.240 It's so dumb 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 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:22.640 For ultra wide so we've got this nice splash screen here 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 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 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 00:06:39.840 --> 00:06:44.720 This feels good though. Oh my god. It's like my entire 00:06:45.840 --> 00:06:50.240 Peripheral vision is full just perfectly 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:54.000 Full is 21 by 9 just not good enough 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 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 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 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 00:07:24.080 --> 00:07:29.440 Our peak brightness is only listed at 456 nits from Windows, which is usually correct 00:07:30.080 --> 00:07:33.360 But what we found is that it will do a thousand 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 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 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:47.840 So ours is already set to high because we've been doing some testing 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 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 00:08:01.440 --> 00:08:05.040 It's very colorful. But while we were testing it, we noticed something 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:10.320 Pretty interesting the HDR accuracy is actually not very good at all 00:08:10.640 --> 00:08:13.120 Some of the worst i've ever seen to be perfectly honest 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 00:08:18.960 --> 00:08:22.400 Or close to it right next to it. You're not really 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 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:34.080 Um, but frankly even looking at this re footage knowing that it's not accurate 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:13.840 For the vast majority of people I think it's still going to look good 00:09:14.400 --> 00:09:18.400 But that can be a huge deciding factor for some of you out there 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 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:31.120 However, once we check our maximum, it's all up at 9.1 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 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:38.720 so again, it's like it looks good 00:09:39.520 --> 00:09:42.960 And most people aren't really going to notice especially when the average is so low 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 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 00:09:58.160 --> 00:10:03.200 Now let's talk price monitors have been coming down in price quite a bit recently 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 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:13.680 But the thing is just a few years ago OLED 32 by 9 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 00:10:20.160 --> 00:10:24.800 The only problem is that currently the OLED g9 would be 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:29.280 $1,100 on sale Obviously sales change all the time 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? 00:10:34.880 --> 00:10:38.480 Maybe it goes away and comes back frequently throughout the year. I don't know but 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 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 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 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 00:11:04.880 --> 00:11:09.760 If you want to look at another very similar panel check out the samsung OLED g9